If the thoughts cloud your mind all the time, what will happen next moment keeps you awake all night, and small changes trigger your behavior, then you might be anxious.
Understanding Anxiety: A Common Mental Disorder
If the thoughts cloud your mind all the time, what will happen next moment keeps you awake all night, and small changes trigger your behavior, then you might be anxious. While these thoughts are pretty standard for human survival, one must not let them become a disorder. Forty million people in the USA are suffering from an anxiety disorder. Even though it is one of the most common mental illnesses in the country, only 36.9% of individuals with it gets treated.
It is essential to understand that Anxiety won’t go away. This disorder will continue to persist for all your life, and you need to learn to live with it.
“Anxiety was born at the very same moment as humanity. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it— just as we have learned to live with storms.”
—Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho has perfectly penned down it in few words. Let’s understand what is this mental disorder all about!
First of all, learn the difference
While having anxious thoughts, worried about something, and being restless about a situation is okay. Meanwhile, Anxiety can be helpful or motivate one to work harder; however, if it persists for a long term and hinders your day to day life, it is an anxiety disorder. From the study by the American Psychiatric Association, women are more prone to become victims than men.
The symptoms of these are vast; we tried to put together the most common symptoms of a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). These are:
- agitation, and a feeling of being “on-edge.”
- overpowering feelings of worry
- increased irritability
- awareness difficulties
- sleep problems, such as difficulties in falling or staying asleep
Moreover, these symptoms are quite common in everyday life; patient with GAD experiences this on insistent or dangerous levels. These symptoms may disrupt your day to day life. Researchers are still researching by studying the deeper part of the brain to understand the right cause of it. However, we do not know the correct cause of Anxiety, but we are sure it’s a mixture of different factors that play a significant role. These include hereditary and environmental factors, additionally brain chemistry. Also, studies show that a specific part of the brain responsible for controlling fear may be impacted.
How does it make you feel?
Anxiety is not just in your head; it shows in your physical