Anxiety

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can be a healthy emotion at times which keeps you alert. However, if you feel excessively anxious frequently, then it might be a medical disorder. It is a feeling of worry, unease or nervousness that occurs even at the absence of any threat. 

When you become irrationally anxious of daily situations and it turns persistent, overwhelming and uncontrollable, then it can severely affect your daily life, like work performance, education & relationships. It can make your life disabling. Anxiety disorders, like panic attacks, panic disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, selective mutism, are fairly common in the United States. This mental disorder affects over 40 million individuals in the United States but only 36.9 percent of sufferers seek and receive help.

Anxiety disorders are different from general feelings of anxiousness. Most of us feel anxious almost every day in different situations. Whether it’s before a presentation, taking a test, facing an issue at work or taking a crucial decision, anxiety makes us ready. However, for someone with an anxiety disorder, the feeling can get much more intense and becomes chronic. In fact, it can get much worse over time. As it becomes uncontrollable, you may make uncomfortable changes to your lifestyle and avoid people, situations and places just to prevent such feelings. However, anxiety disorders can be treated with a little bit of self awareness, information, support and professional help.

In this page you can discover numerous helpful resources like articles, stories, blogs and tips that will enable you to identify and recover from it to live a better and healthier life.