Modern people are facing huge pressures in life, and the word anxiety has become more and more common in life, such as income anxiety, housing anxiety, appearance anxiety, education anxiety, pension anxiety, etc., which have become hot topics on the Internet. Today we will talk about those things about anxiety!
1. What is anxiety?
Anxiety is a natural emotional response of people, but what we usually call "anxiety" refers more to a negative emotion, which is caused by stress, disappointment, and uncertainty, usually manifested as excessive tension, panic, uneasiness, and so on.
If anxiety is not relieved for a long time, it may develop into anxiety disorders, and the body will show symptoms such as panic, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, and insomnia.
Second, what are the categories of anxiety?
1. Physiological anxiety
Physiological anxiety is an emotional response that everyone has, usually because of a problem encountered, and will disappear with the solution of the problem.
Many factors in life can cause physiological anxiety, common environmental factors, personality factors.
The external environment is the most common cause of physiological anxiety. Now the pace of life is very fast, the external environment has been urging us to keep pace, keep moving forward, when we find that our steps can not keep up with the rhythm of the external environment, it will produce anxiety.
At the same time, the further development of social media has also given us a stronger contrast psychology, and it is easy not to be satisfied with our own status quo, which is easy to breed anxiety.
In addition to the external environment, its own personality is also an important influence of physiological anxiety. Generally speaking, people with more introverted, fragile, sensitive personalities, and excessive pursuit of perfection are not only prone to negative emotions, but also not good at releasing their negative emotions, so they have become a group with a high incidence of anxiety.
2. Pathological anxiety
Different from physiological anxiety, pathological anxiety is a long-lasting anxiety disorder, patients often feel anxious for no reason, always feel that there will be very bad things happening, for a long time are in an extremely nervous, uneasy psychological state, and even show dry tongue, arrhythmia, breathing difficulties and other external diseases, serious will also have a sense of suffocation, near death.
Pathological anxiety has been transformed from ordinary emotional performance into a psychological disease, which will not only bring pain to the mind, but also affect physical health, and must be treated in time.
3. How to relieve anxiety?
1. Face up to anxiety
If you want to relieve anxiety, you must first face your anxiety, tell yourself that this is a normal emotional response, do not produce hostility, and do not fight anxiety, because this will only become more anxious.
2. Find the reason
Secondly, we must find the cause of our own feelings of anxiety and solve the problem in a targeted manner in order to effectively alleviate anxiety. If you are anxious because you can't achieve your desired goals, you may wish to adjust your goals and take it step by step.
3. Relax appropriately
When you feel anxious, you may wish to let go of the things at hand, relax appropriately, find a comfortable and quiet place, don't think about anything, and let your brain empty.
Anxiety is a very normal emotion, especially in modern society, almost everyone is in a state of anxiety, in the face of anxiety, what we have to do is not to escape, not to resist, but to timely and correct relief, do not let yourself be overly anxious for a long time, so as not to develop into a psychological disease.