ANXIETY
Anxiety is a natural response to stress.
The benefits of anxiety include helping with motivation and boosting performance levels, protecting us from dangerous situations, and serving as a pivot point for changing our perspective to be more empathic toward others. Anxiety is problematic when it becomes chronic, irrational, and significantly disrupts your ability to function at home, school, and/or work, as well as in relationships with others.
Common anxiety symptoms include:
- Feeling nervous/keyed up
- Excessive worries/fears
- Racing thoughts
- Difficulty controlling worry
- Restlessness
- Muscle tension
- Irritability
- Difficulty with concentration
- Trouble falling or staying asleep
- Changes in appetite
- Lack of energy/fatigue
- Strong desire to avoid experiences that trigger anxiety
- Increased heart rate
- Rapid breathing
- Sweating
- Headaches
- Shaking/trembling
- Stomach aches
- Dizziness
- Skin picking
- Teeth grinding/jaw clenching
- Hair-pulling
The most common mental disorder in America is anxiety.
Below are general descriptions of 5 major types of anxiety disorders:
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): excessive and persistent anxiety/worry about many activities and events that is difficult to control.
- Specific phobia: intense and persistent anxiety/fear and desire to avoid a real or imagined situation, person, activity, or object that is unreasonable.
- Agoraphobia: intense anxiety/fear and often avoidance of open, crowded places that would be difficult to escape and are believed to contribute to feeling helpless, trapped, or embarrassed.
- Social anxiety disorder: excessive anxiety/fear in social settings due to concerns about being embarrassed or judged/evaluated negatively by others.
- Panic disorder: repeated episodes of intense anxiety/fear that peak within minutes (see panic attacks page) that can cause avoidance of situations in which they have occurred and worries about future attacks.
It is important to work with a trained professional who can accurately diagnose and treat anxiety disorders, as well as other issues (such as depression) that may occur simultaneously.
Anxiety disorders are treatable.
Counseling and therapy at Wellness Grove…
Our in-person (outpatient) counseling services are offered in Canton OH (near Akron, North Canton, and Massillon). We also offer telemental health sessions to all Ohio residents.
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