Generalized anxiety disorder

How to deal with anxiety disorders Hello everyone. Today I’m going to be talking about something very important. Many people deal with these day to day and are too embarrassed to talk about them or sometimes even acknowledge their existence. People often will end up going to the emergency room claiming they had a heart attack until the doctor tells them they just had a panic attack. Panic attack? What are these? How do they arise? What can I do to deal with them? Through my own personal…

Muir-Cochrane et al. 2014, p. 32). In conjunction with this, employing screening tools such as the Beck Anxiety Inventory, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale or the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment can be beneficial for a more comprehensive overview of Georgia’s condition (Gask et al. 2009; Hardy & Gray 2012). Successively, these measures would be able to distinguish the severity of Georgia’s anxiety symptoms to ultimately shape a treatment…

Sometimes people are very afraid of the little things and their fear makes them focus on only the negative outcomes. Sometimes, their fear also affects others around them because people hold back their ability . When this happens, people tend to feel defeated which is not the case. This is important because the ability to conquer a fear and show everyone who did not believe is the biggest reward. In Arthur Miller’s drama, The Crucible characters create a suspense and heart worthy emotion of…

I have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can completely change your life. I learned this the hard way. When I learned this fact, my best friend and personal confident was Katherine. I told her everything. We had known each other for a few years prior to this event. At the time, I also referred to my parents for guidance with struggles in my life. Up until this point, I had no reason to doubt any of them. The first time I had major anxiety attack was horrifying. I had gotten upset about something…

Routine Cynicism: “Cynicism, an unceasing attitude of negativity, has become an interpersonal epidemic that limits lives in organizations and families” (Arnett, 1999, p. 13). “Cynicism…‘contempt for whatever is or might be proposed; it is a constant act of fault finding, a general rejection of the pleasure of life”’ (Arnett, 1999, p. 13). Three key ways to develop a cynical outlook: 1. The formulation of unrealistically high expectations, of oneself and/or other people. 2. The experience of…

behavioural and automatic responses are observed. This happens when fear circuits of the brain have become hyper-excitable, the core of abnormality in most disorders of fear and anxiety. Anxiety is the conscious way of expressing fear and they are often mistaken for each other. Nevertheless, neurobiology of fear is different than neurobiology of anxiety. Although…

I am working with a mental illness known as panic disorder agoraphobia, and the name of the client that I am interviewing is Annie. Background Information Annie is a twenty-four-year-old female. She is Caucasian. As of right now, she is currently unemployed and relying on the government for assistance. She has been able to hold jobs in the past, but she becomes very anxious in public locations. Also, she describes that growing up she was raised in a normal, yet, sometimes-abusive environment.…

Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view. Conflict is when drama is added into the story. Point of view is the perspective that the…

Fearnot-Narrative Fear can ruin your life. Fear is just a mentality. Fear can mean different things to people, it can be the difference between someone not exactly loving spiders, and not hating them and someone having a meltdown every time they see a spider. For some people, a fear can be so stressful and life-crippling that they’ll try anything in their power to avoid their fear even if it means staying at home for days at a time. Fear has the power to prevent people from experiencing the…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) deals with an illogical link from the obsession to the compulsion, or ritual. The obsession is the source of the individual’s fears, such as germs or death, and the ritual is the practices one performs, such as washing one’s hands or blinking a certain number of times, as an alleviation of their obsession. The link may or may not make sense to the individual; with the latter case, the ritual is mainly performed just in case something bad was to happen. Those…