Anxiety
Published on Dec 15, 2015
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Anxiety what is it?
People with social anxiety disorder (or social phobia) having a constant fear of social and performance situations due to fears of scrutiny and negative evaluation by others.
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Symptoms
Social anxiety may include acute physical anxiety symptoms which may lead to avoidance of the feared situation.
Physical anxiety symptoms which often accompany social anxiety fears include hot and cold flushes, racing heart, tightening of the chest , snowballing worries, obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour.
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Causes
People who experience anxiety often have a history of mental health problems in their family. However, this doesn't mean that a person will automatically develop anxiety if a parent or close relative has had a mental illness. Stressful events can also trigger symptoms of anxiety. Common triggers include: job stress or job change, change in living arrangements, pregnancy and giving birth, family and relationship problems, major emotional shock following a stressful or traumatic event ,verbal, sexual, physical or emotional abuse or trauma ,death or loss of a loved one.…
Australian/Tasmanian statistics:
Anxiety disorders affect 9.7% or 1.3 million adult Australians (12% women and 7.1% men).
The onset of anxiety disorders is generally in early to late adolescence. Various research studies report anxiety disorder prevalence rates between 5.7% to 15.4% in children ranging in age from 7 to 11 years old, and rates of 8.7% to 17.7% in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years old.
Historical background: Anxiety as a feeling has been around since humans were worrying about getting trampled by woolly mammoths, but has by no means always been recognised as a potential mental disorder. Gaining recognition as a treatable condition took many years, and figuring out how to treat anxiety with even a modicum of success took even longer.
Anxiety is the activation of the fight or flight system – the system your body uses to keep you safe from harm. During the early renaissance, women in particular who were highly anxious because were often accused of being witches.
Similarly, during the Victorian era, women who got “hysterical” were seen as being crazy. Tension that built up from being trapped indoors without a job or anything to do led to many so called unusual behaviours, including a popular form of crafting that involved making trinkets out of human hair. Anxiety was also one of these issues. If a woman had persistent panic attacks, her family or husband would most likely cart her off to the local insane asylum where treatments included electroshock therapy and even (in severe cases) lobotomization. Eventually an at-home treatment for women with anxiety was invented, known in the modern day as a vibrator.
Soldiers in the American Civil War were thought to suffer from what was then called “irritable heart syndrome” when they exhibited heart palpitations and shortness of breath – something that is now known to be post-traumatic stress disorder. This era actually had some benefits for the understanding of anxiety. For the first time, men were being recognised as having anxiety-related difficulties too.
The Russians seem to have been the first to catch on to the psychological nature of this condition, and began sending psychiatrists off to war along with soldiers to treat them after battle during Russia’s war with Japan in 1904.
Most modern techniques for treating anxiety came into existence after the 1950s though during this time muscle relaxation techniques are also frequently used, and even electroshock is occasionally suggested in cases of severe anxiety where patients are at risk of killing themselves.
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Lifestyle changes for person with mental illness: Good lifestyle changes for someone with anxiety would be to do regular exercise like tai chai and yoga. Other lifestyle changes for people with anxiety would be to have a good diet, alcohol free life and to make sure you get a lot of sleep.
Historical background: Anxiety as a feeling has been around since humans were worrying about getting trampled by woolly mammoths, but has by no means always been recognised as a potential mental disorder. Gaining recognition as a treatable condition took many years, and figuring out how to treat anxiety with even a modicum of success took even longer.
Anxiety is the activation of the fight or flight system – the system your body uses to keep you safe from harm.
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During the early renaissance, women in particular who were highly anxious because were often accused of being witches.
Similarly, during the Victorian era, women who got "stereotyped” were seen as being crazy. Tension that built up from being trapped indoors without a job or anything to do led to many so called unusual behaviours, including a popular form of crafting that involved making trinkets out of human hair. Anxiety was also one of these issues. If a woman had persistent panic attacks, her family or husband would most likely cart her off to the local insane asylum where treatments included electroshock chair. Eventually an at-home treatment for women with anxiety was invented, known in the modern day as a vibrator.
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