HOW TO COPE WITH ANXIETY?

Anxiety isn't a problem of itself. It’s a protective biological response to danger, which increases heart rate and breathing while pumping oxygenated blood to your muscles, anchors as your body prepares to fight or flee. While anxiety symptoms vary, you've probably experienced physical and emotional distress signals like panicked breathing, heart pounding in chest, difficulty sleeping, feelings of dread, or even worry loops. That's perfectly normal. Anxiety can be brought on by a number of factors. Rather, it's usually the result of a combination of factors relating to your personality, upbringing, and life circumstances.

An accurate diagnosis is necessary for any health issue. Anxiety disorders include the following:

Phobias: intense fears of a specific animal, insect, object, or situation.

Panic disorder: Panic attacks are intense, heart-pounding episodes of fear, breathlessness, and dread.

Social anxiety disorder: Anxiety in social situations or when called upon to perform in front of others, such as in public speaking, is known as social anxiety disorder.

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): six-month pattern of excessive worry about a variety of issues on most days.

Anxiety symptoms vary depending on the disorder, but most anxiety disorders include several symptoms. Feeling light-headed or dizzy, sweating or feeling hot, increased heart rate, panic attacks, gastrointestinal problems, rapid breathing or hyperventilation, nausea or a painful stomach, aches and pains in your body, insomnia, and changes in sex drive are all physical symptoms. Feeling nervous, irritable, or tense, low mood and depression, a sense of impending danger or fearing the worst, constant worrying, needing reassurance from others, and feeling like everyone is watching you, depersonalization (a type of disassociation in which you don't feel connected to yourself and feel as if you're looking in from the outside), de-realization (a type of disconnection in which you believe the world isn't real or that you aren't connected to it) are all mental symptoms.

Anxiety can be effectively treated by making lifestyle changes (such as skipping alcohol-caffeine, Eating healthy-balanced meals, exercising regularly, and avoiding medicines or substances that might cause anxiety symptoms), Distracting yourself with friends, family, or hobbies; Mind-body approaches (such as deep breathing, meditation, mindfulness, and techniques to ease muscle tension and promote calm); Psychotherapy (such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy); A combination of approaches is frequently the most effective. Anxiety can be effectively managed by combining medication with CBT or exposure therapy to strengthen coping skills and retrain the brain.