Generalized anxiety disorder

available if something bad happens. It causes people with a phobia in this category to have anxiety about being in places or situations where it might be difficult or embarrassing to escape, such as being in an elevator. In severe cases, a person with agoraphobia might be afraid to leave their house. Agoraphobia is often confused with shyness, but this is not the case. Shy people do not experience extreme anxiety in social situations, and they do not necessarily avoid…

If you were to ask me what the scariest part about having anxiety is, my answer to you would be how little is known about it. Mental health is such a feared thing to talk about, yet talking and spreading awareness is the only way to end the stigma. I have severe “performance anxiety” as my doctor called it, it 's no longer an everyday thing but for a long time it was, it started as being anxious before soccer games or track meets, I mean, nerves is something all athletes face, it 's part of the…

The smell of dead fish and fried dumplings engulfed my nostrils as I ventured off into a foreign territory. I was then immediately bombarded with musty, humid air and noticeably large advertisements hanging above my head, all written in Chinese. Then, as I was walking with my head towards the sky, taking in my surroundings, I was abruptly stopped by a man, whom was slender and of Asian descent. He shoved a catalogue, that had listings of different counterfeit purses, into my hands and motioned…

The Effects of Social Anxiety on the College Experience We have all had our fair share of situations that involve anxiety. Whether the anxiety stems from an upcoming job interview, a presentation in front of people you may not know, or starting college classes, anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. In college, students may be juggling multiple classes at a time and have an extensive amount of homework, while also trying to manage their personal and social lives, which are factors contributing…

Anxiety is a story written by James Lincoln Collier about why you should overcome your fears and not let them stop you from living life to the fullest. The thesis of this paper would be “do what makes you anxious; don 't do what makes you depressed.” The author list some very strong main points. He uses smaller ideas of anxiety to break down the thesis, such as this one displays what anxiety is, if you don 't take a chance to do something because you 're scared, you will soon find yourself…

argument. Cep begins by analyzing a website that participant’s submitted photos to of themselves holding signs with explanations of why they chose to unplug. Ceps continues by saying “How quickly the digital age turned into the age of technological anxiety” (Cep, 2014, para. 3). Which tells the reader his opinion that everyone has become so anxious because of the pace technology has progressed. He then states statistics backing his opinions on why he believes the idea that online connections…

Why speaking up in class can be frightening? My friend Cynthia is a shy person and doesn’t like to participate in none of her classes because she gets intimidated when everyone is staring at her. For me, we connect with each other very well because we're both shy but we made a promise that we can at least participate or ask a question in almost every class. Speaking up in class can be frightening because people become shy. A great deal of people aren’t brave enough to speak in front of a big…

apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one 's capability to cope with it." Webster likes to refer to this as anxiety disorder, I prefer to call it my monster. I was a prey to a monster called anxiety. Anxiety feels as though you are drowning and are unable to swim to the surface become you are bound by the ankles with weights. It limited my ability to be a normal teenager, to hang out with my…

rumination, depression, and anxiety. Participants were taken from an undergraduate university and given a variety of measures to assess each variable. The authors were able to collect data that supported their hypotheses. They predicted that socially prescribed perfectionism would be positively correlated with interpersonal rumination, and this was true in the study (p < .05). In addition, a significant relationship was found between non-display of imperfection and anxiety (p < .01). This…

people. As I grew older, this shyness manifested itself into a sometimes crippling social anxiety. My anxieties have affected my daily life since middle school- the thought of answering a phone when it is someone I don’t know calling often leaves me paralyzed, asking for help in a store is something I can never manage, and speaking out in class is always a nightmare. I would like to cease my social anxiety in order to comfortably communicate with those around me. This can effectively be done by…