One of the world's most common mental health problems is anxiety. Sometimes it is common to feel anxiety in stress or challenging situation, but when this feeling becomes excessively, constantly and uncontrollable, it can affect life badly. According to experts, if the anxiety is not recognized and controlled in time, it can turn into severe cases like depression, heart disease, digestive problems and even suicide.
Foung Lee, an expert in the mental health sector in Vietnam and America, says that anxiety is a mental state that can feel like physical pain. It affects not only on the brain, but on the whole body. The good thing is that today there are many effective techniques and therapies available, which can be managed by anxiety.
Anxiety or anxiety is a natural reaction of our brain that alerts a potential threat or challenge. However, when this feeling is excessive, frequent and without any solid reason, it can take the form of mental disorder.
Stress is usually caused by a current problem, such as a job pressure or family feud and decreases over time. Whereas the anxiety is sometimes due to the apprehensions going on in the mind without any clear reason and persists for a long time.
Phouong Lee states that it affects cardiovascular system, digestive system, immune system and sleep due to prolonged persistence. This can cause serious problems like irritable boule syndrome, ulcers, high blood pressure, stroke and autoimmune disease.
– Mindfulness: Focusing in the present moment and controlling thinking.
– deep breathing and relaxation techniques: To calm the mind.
– Deciding 'Vari Time': Set a limited time to worry so that the rest of the day is productive.
– Writing diary: To track when, why and how anxiety is there.
– communicate: Talking to reliable people provides mental relief.
– Identification and re-establishment of negative thinking: Breaking misconceptions with facts.
– Behavior Activation: Improve the mood from positive activity.
– Exposure Therapy: Slowly cope with scary circumstances.
– Diary and Self-Reflection: Understanding and improving the pattern of thinking.
SSRIs like Lustral and Prozac help to balance serotonin levels in the brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that controls the mood. However, experts believe that drugs are not the solution alone. They should be adopted with therapy and lifestyle changes.
– This happens only to weak people: Actually, this can happen to anyone. The reason for this can be biological, environmental and genetic.
– Over time it goes on automatically: Without treatment, this situation can worsen.
– Talking increases the exercise: On the contrary, talking gives relief and the chances of getting help increases.
