What is Anxiety?
Do you want to understand why you get anxious when others don’t? Are you fed up with feeling overwhelmed? Do you want to release those shackles of impulsive checking and procrastinating and regain control to discover a new inner confidence?
Common Symptoms:
- Over thinking
- Stomach churning & Nausea
- Heart beating quickly
- Hot and sweaty
- Breathing problems
- Vigilant & Obsessive
- Negative self-image
- Short tempered and Angry
Feeling stressed, thinking about the past with feelings of guilt, regret, disappointment, or anger, worrying about how others judge you, can be very distressing. Anxiety causes us to resist situations to avoid these negative feelings. Sometimes our minds can overreact, when anxiety is sustained beyond helpful, it can be incapacitating.
Facts:
- Negative thoughts are usually based on emotional judgments and not fact
- Our fight or flight responses cause anxiety and can be useful in certain situations
- We have no control over the past, but we can use these experiences in positive way
- Prolonged anxiety is detrimental to our mental and physical health
- When we are fearful, we struggle to change behaviours
- Pain or other present conditions are exacerbated by stress
- We can reduce our symptoms of anxiety and relatively quickly
