Generalized Anxiety
This everyday feeling becomes overwhelming and persistent in people with generalized anxiety disorder.
What is Worry?
This common emotion is intensified in people with social anxiety, making everyday interactions feel overwhelming.
What is Fear?
This sudden and intense wave of fear can cause shortness of breath, a racing heart, and dizziness.
What is A Panic Attack?
PTSD symptoms.
What is Intrusive Memories, Negative thoughts, and Avoidance?
This type of treatment therapy is commonly used to treat PTSD, helping individuals gradually confront and process their traumatic experiences in a safe environment.
What is Exposure Therapy?
Many people with GAD experience this sleep disturbance, struggling to fall or stay asleep due to constant worry.
What is insomnia?
People with social anxiety may struggle to maintain this form of nonverbal connection, which can be interpreted as rudeness.
What is Eye Contact?
A breathing technique that helps calm panic attack symptoms by slowing inhalations and exhalations.
What is Deep Breathing?
Most likely to develop PTSD.
What are Veterans or Military Soldiers?
This structured therapy program teaches people how to navigate social interactions through gradual exposure and practice.
What is Social Skills Training
This persistent feeling of worry occurs more days than not and lasts for at least six months in people with generalized anxiety disorder.
What is Excessive Anxiety?
This physical reaction, often triggered by social anxiety, causes a rapid heartbeat, sweating, and a feeling of nervousness.
What is The Fight or Flight Response?
This nervous system becomes overactive during panic attacks, leading to physical symptoms.
What is the Automatic Nervous System?
This needed to be diagnosed for PTSD, according to PBS Learning.
What is Stressor, Symptoms, and Avoidance?
This prescription medication, often used for panic disorder, helps regulate brain chemicals to reduce anxiety symptoms.
What are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI)
This common bodily reaction to anxiety can cause shakiness, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating.
What is Muscle Tension?
This strategy involves gradually exposing oneself to feared social situations, building confidence over time.
What is Desensitization technique?
This avoidance behavior occurs when people with panic anxiety fear certain places or situations that might trigger an attack.
What is Agarophobia?
These are sensory cues, such as sights, sounds, or smells, can cause individuals with PTSD to relive traumatic events involuntarily.
What are Triggers?
This technique encourages individuals to write down worries and challenge irrational thoughts with logical reasoning.
What is Journaling?
People with GAD often struggle with this mental loop, where small worries spiral into larger, uncontrollable fears.
What is Rumination?
People with social anxiety avoid these types of large gatherings due to overwhelming fear of being judged or scrutinized.
What are Public Places or Parties?
A neurotransmitter linked to mood regulation, often imbalanced in those with panic anxiety.
What is Serotonin?
This is an almond shaped part of the brain and is responsible for processing fear and emotions and is often overactive in individuals with PTSD.
What is the Amygdala?
This natural relaxation method uses controlled breathing, stretching, and meditation to lower stress and anxiety, is also an alternative.
What is Yoga?