How To Deal With Mental Health Anxiety

Introduction

Did you know that everyday millions of America's suffer from mental health anxiety. This is a very real and serious issue and should be taken as though it is one those those around the person who is having to suffer with this very serious issue.

Having anxiety can cause people to get nervous or all together avoid social situations. This may also include things such as going into a store to shop, driving a vehicle, or doing activities they loved before such as bowling or going out to eat!

History

Most everyone will be stressed out at some point in their lives, however people with mental health anxiety are stressed on a daily basis. Even if they are not having a "flare up" of anxiety they still are experiencing it internally. Some signs of mental health anxiety include worrying about everything and taking it to an extreme (example: I have a headache, I hope it isn't a brain tumor). A common fear in people with mental health anxiety is a fear of heart issues. One of the reason people fear this more than anything is because there are so many advertisements on tv, magazines, and billboards about the heart.

Many things can bring the anxiety about, it doesn't just "happen". Typically stress over a prolonged period can mess with the brain function causing the body to react in the fight or flight response. This is the response that has been with man from the very beginning of time and was designed to protect us from harm. In the cave days man would use this as a survival skill to outsmart large animals who may be after them! However, in people with anxiety this doesn't protect but actually harms the system since there is usually no need to be afraid.

 

Things that may cause anxiety

The death of a loved one certainly has been knows to cause anxiety in many people. This may be someone such as a child, mother, father or someone else who was very close to the individual.

Events that could have been very tragic, such as a major car wreck have been knows to cause anxiety and made people avoided driving for many years to come.

A tragic event happening can cause this as well, such as 9/11 (which was on a national level) or seeing a tragedy happen (such as a quake, tornado, or bad vehicle wreck) where people's lives were forever changed.

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