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Anxiety is only effects your thoughts and is all in the head.
What is false?
Anxiety has physical, mental, and emotional symptoms.
The anxiety disorder characterized as having regular or uncontrollable worries about many different things in your everyday life.
What is Generalized Anxiety?
Anxiety isn't a real illness.
What is myth?
Some anxiety is natural (and can even be helpful), but an anxiety disorder is an extreme form of anxiety that causes impairment, and it's a very real illness.
If you had cancer, you could undergo definitive diagnostic tests to show it. Though there's no blood test or special imaging scan to diagnose anxiety, Hajcak notes that there are other ways this very real condition can be diagnosed and treated. .
List one coping skills for Anxiety
What is false?
Talking to a trusted friend or crisis line will help decrease symptoms of anxiety and help you normalize your experiences.
Name 3 somatic symptoms of anxiety?
stomach ache, indigestion, headache, increased heart rate, sweaty palms
With this type of anxiety you are fearful of being judged.
What is social anxiety?
Some people are just worrywarts and can't be treated.
What is myth?
Though there's probably a genetic component to anxiety, effective treatments, from medication to various types of therapy, can help get it under control.
Give 3 examples of self-care
Eating healthy, getting enough sleep, physical activity, structured schedule, time for yourself, hot bath, reading, journaling,
What is the difference between a anxiety attack and an panic attack?
An anxiety attack has a specific reason and a panic attack can happen for no reason.
An extreme fear or anxiety triggered by a particular situation (such as social situations) or a particular object (such as spiders).
Anxiety disorders are not very common.
What is myth?
About 18 percent of American adults - nearly one in five - experience some type of anxiety disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
List 4 types of Anxiety
Social, General, Separation, School, Phobia, OCD, Panic/Anxiety Attacks
When should one seek help with their anxiety?
When it begins to disrupt your daily and nighttime
functioning.
An anxiety disorder characterized by having regular or frequent panic attacks without a clear cause or trigger.
What is a panic disorder?
If you find the right anxiety medication, you really do not need therapy.
What is a myth?
Medicine may be helpful initially, but it will not replace the skills you learn to help manage your anxiety .
How do you preplan for an anxiety or panic attack?
Identify supports and places to go, and specific skills to help you cope.
Self-care, being successful in school, forming or maintaining relationships, trying new things
Ways Anxiety can impact your life
This is a diagnosis you may be given if you develop anxiety problems after being separated from a caregiver or parent.
What is Separation Anxiety?
People with anxiety could just snap out of it if they really wanted to.
What is a myth?
It's very difficult to just overcome anxiety disorders without help.
How does Anxiety affect your body's organs?
When the body senses anxiety it stops it's regular functioning and works towards defending itself from harm.