ANXIETY
An anxious person has skills, the ability to focus, tune in with their internal world, a sense of fear, and the ability to perceive threat. These are all assets to an individual’s ability to maintain health and wellbeing. The issue is that these skills require fine-tuning so that the person does not suffer due to the amplification of these abilities (anxiety). A type of retraining needs to occur.
An individual who is emotionally alive lives a fuller life when their emotional capacities are broadened then someone who is more cognitively orientated and emotionally unconscious.
STORY
Many many moons ago Jane and Dave (or it may have been Dave & Dave or Jane & Jane) were laying in long grass enjoying their afternoon. There was a rustle in the grass nearby. Jane shot up and became alert and ready for what might come, still she couldn’t see what was their, so the threat was only her judgment. “It could have been the wind” Dave said, “Lay back down and relax” but Jane stayed anxious whilst Dave relaxed enjoying the sun. Who do you think was eaten by the lion? the alert Jane or the relaxed Dave?
ANALYSIS
Jane’s ability to predict what was coming assisted in her survival and she got away and passed her great ability to perceive threat onto modern day man and woman. It’s a survival skill, not an illness.
Therefore, unless you are reading this in Africa there are no lions and therefore no need for such a response. However, the brain still perceives and reacts to the modern world as if to protect itself from annihilation. The way the brain perceives and reacts can be out of place for modern life. You may require assistance to see there is no lion and the threat you see or predict maybe not as big as it seems.
Anxiety is a constant rumination of a perceived threat resulting in an unregulated emotional state. It is easy enough to identify what is wrong with anxiety but at Counselling Sydney we not only help reduce your anxious experience, we also identify the skills you formed whilst being anxious and enable you to use these for your own benefit, for example,
Your ability to perceive the world around you is deep and well developed, we broaden this skill so that you can take in other, enjoyable parts of life.
OUTCOME
There are many emotions and degrees of emotions. At Counselling Sydney we can teach your brain how to be like a radio, tunning in and out of emotions with you at the control, allowing you to live to your fullest capacity.
Social phobia
Social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterised by an intense fear in one or more social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others. It is the most common anxiety disorder and one of the most common psychiatric disorders, with 12% of Australian adults having experienced it.
Physical symptoms often accompanying social anxiety disorder include excessive blushing, excess sweating, trembling, palpitations and nausea. Stammering may be present, along with rapid speech. Panic attacks can also occur under intense fear and discomfort. Some sufferers may use alcohol or other drugs to reduce fears and inhibitions at social events. It is common for sufferers of social phobia to self-medicate in this fashion, especially if they are undiagnosed, untreated, or both; this can lead to alcoholism, eating disorders or other kinds of substance abuse. Social phobia sometimes referred to as an 'illness of lost opportunities' where 'individuals make major life choices to accommodate their illness.
Obsessive–compulsive is where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, have certain thoughts repeatedly, and feel they need to perform certain routines repeatedly. People are unable to control either the thoughts or the activities. Common activities include hand washing, counting of things, and checking to see if a door is locked. Some may have difficulty throwing things out.
These activities occur to such a degree that the person's daily life is negatively affected. Often they take up more than an hour a day. Most adults realize that the behaviours do not make sense. The condition is associated with tics, anxiety disorder, and an increased risk of suicide.