Anxiety Disorders
This anxiety disorder is defined by worrying a lot about being apart from family members or other close people. There is usually a fear of being lost from their family or of something bad occurring to a family member if he or she is not with the person.
Separation anxiety disorder
A queasy sensation with an urge to vomit
Nausea
The 16th president, and commonly found on a penny
Abraham Lincoln
Anxiety’s main job is to keep you safe
TRUE
When faced with danger, your body goes through lots of changes in order to get you ready to protect yourself. Your body revs up (e.g., muscles tense up) and you are ready to strike out at danger, make a safe getaway or hold still until the danger passes.
What are some healthy coping skills you can use when you feel anxious?
Deep breathing
Mindfulness
Exercise
Talking to someone about it
An intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Examples include spiders, heights, flying, or small spaces.
Specific phobias
At a meeting, your boss asks you to present your recent work to your colleagues. Everyone in the room looks at you as your stand to present your work.
What are your automatic thoughts?
What could you tell yourself instead?
This singer, with hits like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Hello", experiences such severe anxiety, that she has been known to have panic attacks back stage before concerts.
Adele
Most people don’t feel anxious
FALSE
Everyone feels anxiety at times. For example, most people feel anxious on the first day of school, before a final exam, or at a job interview. The only difference between people is how often, how easily, and how much anxiety they experience.
Putting your thoughts down on paper
Journaling
People with this type of anxiety disorder appear to be highly sensitive to disapproval or criticism and they look at themselves negatively with poor self-esteem...
Social Anxiety
Pain from inside the abdomen or outer muscle wall, ranging from mild to severe
Stomach ache
He is American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals.
Michael Phelps
Everyone can tell when you’re anxious
FALSE
Anxiety can feel really loud to you. It’s like listening to music on your phone full blast with your earphones. But, most other people don’t really notice.
This way of coping benefits both your mental and physical state. It allows you to relieve stress, it increases blood flow, and it produces endorphins
Exercise
This anxiety disorder is defined by excessive worry about various events and situations.
Generalized anxiety disorder
You see someone you know walking into the store as you are walking out and wave to them. They walk past you without saying "hello."
What are your automatic thoughts?
What could you tell yourself instead?
This popular actor who is known for his quirky and deranged characters, such as a alcohol dependent pirate captain who sails the Caribbean, also suffers from a panic disorder.
Johnny Depp
Anxiety problems are common
TRUE
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year
This psychological process consists of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment.
Mindfulness
People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning
Panic disorder
Physiological symptoms of anxiety
• Excessive fear or worry
• Racing thoughts
• Poor concentration
• Irritability
• Impatience
• Fatigue
This actor recently acknowledged his severe anxiety and has admitted to doing interviews "in character" to help his anxiety.
Ryan Reynolds
If you’ve “always been this way” (anxious), things aren’t likely to improve.
False
It is possible to gain the ability to learn the skills necessary to manage your thoughts and emotions and help yourself feel better.
This type of coping involves identifying, challenging, and altering negative thought patterns that can maintain anxiety.
Cognitive restructuring