Thursday, 8 August 2013

Anxiety

The main cause of anxiety a person faces is fear. Pure and simple. Fear is typically a feeling of helplessness about situations or things that are not in your control. Hence your brain tries to compensate by taking up steps which it perceives can control the situation. For example fear of death makes a person wants to be in absolute control of his health seeing to it that he leaves no stone un -turned in improving his longevity. he over analyzes each and every symptom gets done every medical test available and in the process  experiences the by product of fear- anxiety. An over anxious person never leads a full and satisfying life there is always a niggle or a doubt that bothers him. He is always on the edge with a churning feeling in his stomach We say we can curb the anxiety by relaxing but the only way to really get rid of the anxiety is to confront the underlying fear head on and trying to get over it. The real battle is with the underlying fear and not the anxiety it causes. Anxiety is typically a helpless feeling where you feel you don't know how to cope with a particular situation, and continuous helpless feeling leads to chronic anxiety. when you try controlling a lot of things thinking that would curb your underlying fear you end up biting more that what you can chew leading to increased anxiety because you typically end up doing none of the tasks effectively. The best way to deal with this is taking up a few doable task everyday and completing them. they need not be related to your fear at all, but just the feeling that you were able to do something successfully would help you reduce your anxiety to a large extent.

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