Anxiety attacks at any time, often messy, and physically and mentally overpowering. Yet, most often, people living with anxiety are at a loss for words in describing how it feels.
Approximately 1 in 6 people struggle with different degrees of anxiety, from single events to chronic anxiety. Living with anxiety can impact your personal relationships, education, career, and daily activities.
Understanding life with anxiety, such as identifying triggers and developing coping strategies, is critical to successfully managing this common condition.
- Anxiety feels like someone with a knife is stabbing you in the chest every time you take a breath
- Anxiety feels like your thoughts overpower you with negativity that a heavy cloud takes over your body leaving you debilitated or incapacitated.
- Anxiety can result in an out-of-body experience where your mind is no longer in your body and your body is acting independently of your mind as you see yourself from an external perspective.
- Anxiety can take over your whole brain that you feel light-headed and non-existent in time and space and you can’t do anything but curl up in a ball and hide.
Anxiety can be triggered by anything, sometimes just by the thought of a stress-inducing event. By definition, anxiety is our body’s natural response to stress; it is a feeling of fear or apprehension for what is about to come such as a job interview, facing a tough situation, or relationship problems. While anxiety can stress-induced, chronic anxiety can go beyond a single, individual event.
Common Symptoms of Anxiety :
- Feeling nervous, restless, or tense;
- Having a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom;
- Having an increased heart rate;
- Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation);
- Sharp Chest Pains;
- Shortness of Breath;
- Sweating;
- Trembling;
- Feeling weak or tired;
- Trouble concentrating or thinking about anything other than the present worry;
- Having trouble sleeping;
- Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems;
- Having difficulty controlling worry;
- Having the urge to avoid things that trigger anxiety
Anxiety can make everyday tasks more challenging due to the fear and stress of anxiety. While the examples below will describe some of the experiences of anxiety, every individuals’ experience can differ. Some other examples of how anxiety affects your life include:
- Difficulty getting out of bed to attend school or work;
- Excessive fear of meeting new people;
- Trouble running routine errands;
- Inability to participate in a child’s school functions;
- Difficulty falling asleep;
- Struggling to focus on work tasks;
- Failure to make important decisions;
- Excessive fear of attending group gatherings;
- Trouble maintaining relationships;
- Inability to drive or fly on a plane
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