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Constant anxiety and fear take a lot of energy away,
depriving of peace and sleep, joy and pleasure from life.
According to psychologists, excessive anxiety comes
from early childhood. Fearing for the life and health of the child, caring
mothers and fathers often frighten their child with the fact that he can fall,
get infected, catch a cold, get lost, get into a bad situation, etc. Even a
teenager is not allowed to walk without adult supervision, engage in extreme
sports, and go on hikes with peers. As a result of such a hyperope of parents,
only after becoming an adult, a person faces inevitable risks in life, to which
he is not ready neither psychologically nor physically.
If your parents dramatized any situation or constantly
were afraid that some kind of trouble will happen to you, then you, most
likely, will have a similar pattern of behavior.
Look for a disease
Often increased anxiety is being caused by somatic
diseases. Excessive anxiety is usually peculiar to people suffering from
myocardial ischemia. In general, these people have the fear of death, and
doctors consider this to be one of the symptoms of cardiac disease.
Very disturbing are persons with hypoglycemia, thyrotoxicosis
and those who have adrenal glands producing excessive amounts of hormones.
Often, increased anxiety is being accompanied by
mental disorders. It is quite noticeable among people, who suffer from
schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis. Some medicines may cause
unreasonable fears. Sometimes this is how withdrawal symptoms occur in the
period of quitting smoking, taking alcohol, sleeping pills and drugs.
When stress is to be blamed
It is not surprising if a person begins to show
increased anxiety, after experiencing a severe stressful situation. For
example, if a relative is seriously injured in a road accident, most likely
that someone will avoid driving a car in this family. Some people are afraid to
travel by airplanes, and the causes of such fears are terrible plane crashes
that took the lives of friends or relatives. When someone died of cancer in the
family, it is possible that his offspring will develop a carcinophobia that
will poison people's lives.
How to get rid of fears on your own
If increased anxiety is only a character trait that
has been formed under the influence of upbringing or life circumstances, then
it will be not so difficult to get rid of it.
It is enough to revise your attitude to
life and not attach too much importance to what is happening personally with
you and around you. Changing the perspective, you will cease to feel like a
"center of the world" and learn to perceive yourself as a part of the
world. Look at life easier - and it will make the things easier for you. This
is one of the main recommendations of psychologists to those who suffer from
uncontrollable nightmarish fantasies and constant fears: I can fall ill; I will
not justify the trust of management, etc.
Adequate people often think about good things and hope
for the best. They are able to independently overcome their fears, relying on
the logic of events, rather than on negative emotions.
The main thing is to learn to look at
your future from a positive angle. If this fails, and anxiety lasts for months,
you should seek help from a psychotherapist. Especially if the anxiety is
accompanied by increased blood pressure, chest pain, arrhythmia, shortness of
breath and panic moods, you should not postpone a visit to a doctor because
this may happen due to heart disease.
Correct conversations with a doctor
A good psychotherapist, talking with such a patient,
helps him get to the bottom of the causes of fears and anxieties. The doctor
encourages a person to live in situations that cause tragic forebodings, and
teaches him to represent these situations with a happy outcome. Autogenic
training (a set of special exercises for relaxation and comfort) helps to get
rid of increased anxiety. You can overcome your fears through meditation as
well - through the reduction of muscle tension.
To
improve the psychological state doctors prescribe sedatives, antidepressants,
preparations on a plant basis to overly anxious patients. Valerian, motherwort,
mint – are the ingredients that will help to calm down.
When emotions are controlled by the intestine
More precisely, the bacteria that live in it. These
bacteria are guilty of our increased anxiety. Scientists from the Irish
University of Cork found that a key role in the formation of this symptom is
played by certain gene regulators in the brain. Moreover, these very gene
regulators are under the influence of the intestinal microbiota, which can
change, for example, under the influence of antibiotics. "Bacteria affect
gene regulators in two specific parts of the brain that are responsible for
experiencing and developing the personality, which are largely associated with
anxiety and depression,” stresses one of the authors of the study, Dr. Gerard
Clarke. He believes that some manipulations with the balance of bacteria in the
intestines can affect person’s behavior and in particular, relieve him of
increased anxiety.
However, this is still far away, and
everyone can try to change the composition of bacteria in the intestines with
the help of a healthy diet and refusing to take antibiotics. Suddenly, then, we
will become less anxious.
Spleeny people, who often worry about something, are
often more intelligent than those who do not really care about what is going on
around them. This was confirmed by an unusual experiment conducted by Israeli
psychologists who tested 80 students. Young people were deliberately introduced
into a stressful situation, connected with the search for a dangerous computer
virus. "We found that students who were more likely to experience anxiety
in ordinary life were more vigilant, more persistent and more effective in
solving the task," the leaders of the study, Ain-Dor and Tal, emphasized.
They were able to prove that restless people feel threatened earlier than their
more balanced comrades.
Scientists from the United States and Canada conducted
a joint study of the level of intelligence of different students. Those young
people who admitted that they often worry and are nervous over trifles demonstrated
the highest level of intelligence. An anxious mind is a searching mind. Only an
intelligent person can view each situation from different points of view,
noticing its pros and cons.
