Learning Objective 12.4 is about anxiety, trauma, and stress. An anxiety disorder is excessive or unrealistic worry and fearfulness. Free-floating Anxiety is one that is unrelated to any realistic source. Another disorder is Panic Disorder which is panic attacks that cause daily difficulty. A panic attack is sudden and very intense where there are physical symptoms of stress and there is a feeling that you are going to die. A General Anxiety Disorder is excessive anxieties and worries that occur more days than not and happens for more than six months. One of my older sisters, Jazmyne, has a general anxiety disorder and has suffered from many anxiety attacks. When she was younger her anxiety was so bad that she tried to commit suicide a couple
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He wasn’t going to drop his friends, who he had been friends with since high-school, for his girlfriend. Whenever he wanted to hang out with his group of friends she would stress out and start crying. I would hear her in the next room crying and whimpering. I would knock on her door to see what happened and she would calmly tell me to leave. Many times I just sat outside her door for a few hours and talk to her calmly about the realistic side of the situation and how he just wanted to spend time with some friends and not be by her all the time and that is what happens in relationships. I would tell her that everything would be okay. There was a few times were I would tell her to calm down, my mistake, and she would start to hyperventilate even more and tell me that she can’t. I realized that when she is having this panic attacks that I have to choose my words carefully and stay calm. Most of the time when I would talk to her she would calm down after a few hours, but one time it got really bad that I had to get my RA’s key to open her door. I did the same routine where I sat outside her door to talk to her, but her hyperventilating got worse and worse and then I didn’t hear anything. My heart dropped and I opened the door and she passed out on the bed. This happened one or two times with me where she passed
He wasn’t going to drop his friends, who he had been friends with since high-school, for his girlfriend. Whenever he wanted to hang out with his group of friends she would stress out and start crying. I would hear her in the next room crying and whimpering. I would knock on her door to see what happened and she would calmly tell me to leave. Many times I just sat outside her door for a few hours and talk to her calmly about the realistic side of the situation and how he just wanted to spend time with some friends and not be by her all the time and that is what happens in relationships. I would tell her that everything would be okay. There was a few times were I would tell her to calm down, my mistake, and she would start to hyperventilate even more and tell me that she can’t. I realized that when she is having this panic attacks that I have to choose my words carefully and stay calm. Most of the time when I would talk to her she would calm down after a few hours, but one time it got really bad that I had to get my RA’s key to open her door. I did the same routine where I sat outside her door to talk to her, but her hyperventilating got worse and worse and then I didn’t hear anything. My heart dropped and I opened the door and she passed out on the bed. This happened one or two times with me where she passed