What is anxiety? Anxiety is the feeling you have when you think that something unpleasant is going to happen in thefuture. Other words such as feeling ‘apprehensive’, ‘uncertain’, ‘nervous’ and ‘on edge’ also provide agood description of feelings linked to anxiety. Anxiety is completely normal and something that all human …
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Depression with Anxiety Many people with Anxiety also suffer from clinical depression. For some people the misery of Anxiety is the cause of their depression, but for others the depression comes first, and Anxiety is a secondary effect of the depression.Depression is not just a case of feeling low, or …
Read More »The black hole of anxiety
The black hole of anxiety. For most people, anxiety seems to come from nowhere and hit them like a sledgehammer. One minute, more or less happily living your life, the next, terrified and distraught, struggling to breathe perhaps, convinced you are dying, or that someone else will die and it …
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Effects of anxiety. Now examine each aspect of your life and decide how Anxiety affects it – use your notebook and work through each of the headings on the previous page. Here is an example from someone with severeagoraphobia: Physical: sick and shaky, lightheaded. Emotional: fear, even at the thought …
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Panic attacks from Anxiety. A panic attack is a sudden surge of Anxiety, usually short-lived but very intense. The surge causes physical sensations that increase dramatically as the attack progresses. It is fuelled by a sudden release of adrenalin into the body. https://therapyforanxiety.org/a-person-having-their-first-panic-attack-from-anxiety/ A person having their first panic attack …
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