Stress, Worry or Anxiety?
A normal physical response to an outside event such as a threat, challenge or an upsetting situation/circumstance.
Stress
This is a physical response where your core feels tight or experiences sharp pain.
Stomachache
This coping skill involves a pen and paper and used to process stress through writing.
This anxiety disorder creates excessive worry that is difficult to control, causes distress or impairment in daily functioning.
General Anxiety Disorder
This occurs when your mind starts to dwell on negative thoughts or uncertain future outcomes.
Worry
This symptom is when someone stays up late at night worrying about future or past events.
This coping skill involves putting your hands on your stomach to feel it go in and out.
Belly Breathing
This disorder is where you have an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of objects or situations that pose little real danger but provoke anxiety and avoidance.
Specific Phobias
An alarm reaction that is overly sensitive because it is happening when there is no real threat.
Anxiety
This symptom impacts one's mood causing short temper and makes one easily bothered.
Irritability
This coping skill is used to get your body moving.
Exercise
This disorder evokes panic when you are separated from an attachment figure or anticipate being away from them.
Separation Anxiety
____ may create changes in mood(being irritable),thinking (trouble concentrating),behaviors (avoiding non-dangerous situations, withdrawing) and physical responses (stomachaches, headaches, sleep difficulties
Anxiety
This symptom starts to make your skin warm up and makes you sweat.
Increased Heart Rate
This coping skill has you think about something else to get your mind off of what is causing you worry or fear.
Distraction
A disorder where everyday interactions cause significant anxiety, self-consciousness and embarrassment due to fear of judgement. This often leads to avoidance of social gatherings.
Social Anxiety