Cure Your Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal, healthy feeling that is experienced by everyone. It is the body’s way of reacting to
stimulus that pushes us to either “fight” or “flight” over a situation. However, when anxiety attacks are
chronic, severe, and irrational, and begin to affect the health of a person (physically, psychologically and
emotionally), it already becomes a problem that must be addressed immediately. There is a thick line
between healthy and unhealthy anxiety attacks. Unfortunately, the demarcation line is almost ignored
that normal anxiety crosses into the territory of anxiety disorders.
Types of Anxiety Disorder
There are six different types of anxiety disorder, each has its own characteristics: generalized anxiety
disorder, panic disorder, phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, and obsessivecompulsive
disorder.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a chronic worry or fear over almost everything without even
knowing why. They feel anxious from day to day activities and are troubled that bad things will happen.
People with GAD show symptoms such as stomach upset, fatigue, restlessness, and insomnia.
Panic disorder is repeated, unexpected panic attacks, and fears that panic episodes will likely to happen.
People with panic disorder are likely to have agoraphobia, or fear of being in places where help or
escape will be difficult in case of another panic attack. People with agoraphobia are also afraid of being
trapped in confined places such as an airplane or crowded areas such as a shopping mall.
Phobia is excessive, irrational, and exaggerated fear over simple things that generally present little or no
danger. Common phobias are heights, snakes, spiders, dark, and flying. People with phobias tend to
avoid the things they are afraid of in order to escape anxiety attacks. However, avoidance only
strengthens the phobia.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that happens after a life-threatening or a traumatic
event. People with PTSD show symptoms such as hyper-vigilance, avoiding situations or places that
remind them about the event, nightmares and flashbacks about the things that happened, startling
easily, and isolation.
Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is fear of being seen negatively by others or fear of getting
humiliated in public by other people. Social anxiety is often mistaken as an ordinary extreme shyness.
People with this kind of disorder usually isolate themselves from others or event and places where
crowd usually gathers. Stage fright is the most common type of social anxiety.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD is a condition where a person has unwanted behavior or
thoughts which appear to be impossible to control. People with OCD can have certain obsession such as
worries that they might hurt someone or that they have forgotten to turn the lights off. They can also
have uncontrollable compulsion. The most common is washing of hands repeatedly.
Do you experience anxiety attacks?
Are you always worried, tense, and on the edge?
Do you feel like you are in danger whenever you are in confined places?
Are you afraid of mingling with strangers, meeting new friends or even meeting relatives?
Do you feel that something bad or catastrophic will happen if certain things are not done according to
plan?
Do you experience worry, fear and anxiousness that affect your relationship, work, healthy, and other
responsibilities?
Do you feel irrational fear but couldn’t shake it?
Does your anxiety force you to avoid everyday situations and activities?
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