What is Anxiety?
According to the Child Mind Institute the number of teenagers diagnosed with an anxiety disorder has increased 37% between 2007 and 2014. With each year, the number of anxiety diagnoses increases.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is a normal and healthy emotion, often associated with the feelings of being anxious or stressed. This can be caused by an event a person has been through or an event coming up. It can be caused by a fear or apprehension of something.
It’s when a person regular feels an abnormal amount of anxiety that it becomes a medical disorder. The overly disproportionate feelings of nervousness, fear, worry, and so forth that interferes with one’s ever day is when you show signs of a anxiety disorder. You have fear and worry that does not go away and continues to get progressively worse. It’s easily diagnosed by a doctor, you can also take a quiz at anxiety.org. Anxiety Quiz: Do I have Anxiety.
It’s very common with over 3 million cases in the US every year, usually effecting most people between the ages of 14 and 40. Woman are more commonly affected by axiety disorders than men are with 2 women to every 1 man are likely to be diagnosed.
Anxiety disorder can take the form of a number of things, such as panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD), and generalize anxiety disorder for example, although there are many more. Every person who experiences anxiety tend to experience multiple types of anxiety, their anxiety does not always fall into one specific category. It is possible to have panic attacks as well selective mutism.
Axiety Disorders can change over time, either becoming better and more maintable, to progressively getting worse and more crippling. This all depends on a persons williness for treatment and treatment type. If you think you have an anxiety disorder is is nothing to be ashamed of, more than likely some you know already has it. Consult a doctor on you symptoms. They can recommend a consultant or see if medication is the right path for you.
Anxiety is a very broad category and it’s quite possible that if you believe you suffer from anxiety that you most likely do. Just remember you are not the only one out there that is filled with a never ending sense of worry. There are many people and resources you can turn to. Do not bottle you anxiety up, it will not go away just cause you wish it to. With treatment, positive thinking, and improving your mental health, anxiety will not render you helpless.
