Anxiety is a normal human emotion – many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision. Most of the time, this is manageable and passes after the event.
However, when this anxiety presents in damaging ways such as relationship break down, inability to manage one’s emotions, being tearful, drinking/eating more, insomnia, this signals a deeper underlying problem. One of the main sources of anxiety, emotional breakdown and other mental health problems in adult life stems from emotional neglect/trauma in childhood
Types of Anxiety Disorders
- Panic Disorder – suddenly feeling terrified; sweating, chest pains (may make the sufferer feel they are having a heart attack); difficulty breathing
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) – over worrying about what others may think of us; of being judged and ridiculed
- Phobias – an intense, irrational, uncontrollable fear of objects e.g spiders, snakes, water; leads to avoidance which causes anxiety which then feeds into the phobia – a horrible cycle
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder – excessive, unrealistic worry and tension, sometimes about the smallest of things, or perhaps about nothing at all
Common symptoms include:
- Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness
- Problems sleeping
- Cold or sweaty hands and/or feet
- Shortness of breath
- Heart palpitations
- An inability to be still and calm
- Dry mouth
- Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet
- Nausea
- Muscle tension
- Dizziness
If you are suffering from any of the above, please do give us a ring – we canhelp you deal with them…
