The Cost Of Anxiety Disorders
The Cost Of Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Anxiety Disorders. Why Chronic Anxiety can have a huge impact on an individual’s day to day life.
Anxiety challenges can seriously affect a person’s health and well-being, relationships, work, social activities… It is often so deeply dis-empowering, it dampens a person’s self-esteem and self-worth. Which often leads to further sabotaging emotional and mental behavioural patterns. Such as withdrawal, isolation which can trigger depression. So often the cost of anxiety disorders is much higher than initially perceived.
ANXIETY
Anxiety is a feeling of worry, unease, and nervousness which we all experience at times. But long-term chronic anxiety is unhealthy and unhelpful. If you suffer from long-term anxiety issues you may be suffering an Anxiety Disorder. Many people also experience Panic Attacks with their Anxiety. And although it may feel at the time that life will never be the same. With the right support and skills, most anxiety disorder sufferers can go back to living a normal, happy and healthy life. The key is getting the right help.
So What Is Anxiety?
“Anxiety is a psychological, physiological, and behavioral state induced in animals and humans by a threat to well-being or survival, either actual or potential. It is characterized by increased arousal, expectancy, autonomic and neuroendocrine activation, and specific behavior patterns. The function of these changes is to facilitate coping with an adverse or unexpected situation. Pathological anxiety interferes with the ability to cope successfully with life challenges. “The biology of fear- and anxiety-related behaviours, Steimer, T. (2002)
So What Is An Anxiety Disorder?
An anxiety disorder is when you worry excessively over everyday situations. These worrying thoughts interfere with daily functioning. You have trouble sleeping, you get irritable, your mind races. You can have digestive issues.
A Panic Attack
A panic attack is an unexpected surge of severe anxiety symptoms that can go on for a few seconds to several minutes. You may experience a variety of symptoms including chest pain, fast pulse, shortness of breath, trembling. Hyperventilation is a common symptom of a panic attack
A Panic Disorder
A Panic Disorder is when a person suffers from regular or frequent panic attacks. And is caught in the cycle of fear of having more panic attacks without a clear cause or trigger. A panic attack is an unexpected surge of severe anxiety symptoms. That can go on for a few seconds to several minutes. Not every panic attack sufferer will a panic disorder. But if the mind, body, and emotions continually think and react in the same way. It can too easily become a bad habit which reinforces the anxiety cycle. That’s why treating anxiety is often a multi-facet approach. Where we use a variety of therapeutic and anxiety and stress management skills. Which often include relaxation techniques that encourage the client’s mind, body, and emotions into a state of peace.
Letting Go of Chronic Anxiety Disorders!
The way I support clients lets go of chronic anxiety and chronic anxiety disorders is by using a combination approach.That both help empowers the client, helps the client learn how to relax, move into the relaxed response.
Learn how to switch off the initial trigger and the hyper-arousal state. Because when someone is in the chronic anxiety cycle or chronic stress cycle that will keep a person in a chronic anxiety and/or stress cycle.
This includes helping the client
Understand What Anxiety Is
This takes the FEAR and further anxiety and worry out of their experiences and feelings, which is so important.
Teach Them How to RELAX
Teaching the client how to switch off from the “anxiety response” and “stress response” into the “relaxed response” is so important.
Help Them Release Distorted Beliefs And Patterns
I do this by helping them eliminate distorted and overthinking habits through various strategies including quantum tools, meditation, CBT, inner child and archetypal healing
Healing Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress
For clients with post traumatic stress or trauma I use various extra support with for example a flower essence analysis and prescription. We can assist the mental, emotional, and physical body to release old trauma from the cellular memory.
Anxiety & Stress Management Strategies
I teach them and support them with healthier lifestyle and dietary changes that will reduce anxiety and stress, help cushion them towards better anxiety and stress resilience, reduce stressors that tend to keep the client in an anxiety cycle loop.
WARNING: About Breathing Techniques And Chronic Anxiety Disorders
One of the biggest mistakes many therapists make when treating chronic anxiety is using controlled breathing meditations right away.
Before bringing or teaching the client how to come down from a state of hyper-arousal. This can actually lead to further issues including obsessional issues around their breathing. It is one of the reasons I teach relaxation techniques first and foremost.
And it’s something I teach my Ultimate Relaxation Therapy Toolkit. Over 20+ Professional Anxiety and Stress Busting Tools that can help seriously reduce and eliminate anxiety issues and chronic stress. Powerful strategies and therapeutic tools used by top psychologists, psychiatrists, meditation teachers, therapists, healers and coaches.
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