Anxiety is an emotion when a person encounters some things to deal with and is under great pressure. Your anxiety shows that you are worried about this matter and trying to solve it. This matter is very important to you and needs to be solved urgently, which has produced an inner feeling. Proper anxiety can make you more focused, while excessive anxiety will affect your physical and mental health.
Fear is a kind of fear, a kind of inner feeling. This has been around since childhood, and everyone is afraid of something. Sometimes anxiety is also caused by fear. Because of fear, I am anxious. The more anxious, the more afraid.
Anxiety and fear are normal emotional reactions. Anyone can be anxious, but not as sick. If your anxiety is serious enough to affect your work and life, then you may really need to see a doctor.
Anxiety is unnecessary or excessive tension, fear and fidgeting. When anxious, there will be dry mouth, sweating, rapid heartbeat, trembling, frequent urination and other manifestations. Some special anxiety attacks may even have a sense of near death, or evolve into obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although anxiety belongs to the category of neurosis, the disease experience of anxiety is very unpleasant. If you can't adjust yourself, you should see a doctor as soon as possible.
Some people are naturally anxious about everything, which we call anxious personality. Such people will get tired of their personality in their work and life, and learn to let nature take its course and do whatever it takes. If they don't deliberately worry about things that haven't happened yet and adjust their mentality and attitude, people will gradually stop worrying.
If you are too anxious to do anything for a while, you can take an anti-anxiety drug temporarily. For example, I have taken buspirone myself, which is safe, has few side effects and is not calm. I'm a psychiatrist, don't worry, listen to me!
Anxiety disorder is a kind of neurosis, which also includes: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, hypochondria, neurasthenia and so on.
The manifestations of anxiety disorder are unreasonable worry, tension and fear, and there are also neurological disorders: chest tightness, palpitation, shortness of breath, sweating, chills and so on.
You can consult a professional doctor about the cause and treatment. I am here to talk about the vicious circle of three levels mentioned by writer Ke Yunlu in his book Anxiety Disorder.
First: the vicious circle of mental illness and career. If you can't bear the pressure of life and career, you will have anxiety. On the other hand, if you are anxious, there will be more problems in your life and career. The more helpless, the more anxious Liu is, the more helpless he is, and the result is that he is trapped.
Second: the vicious circle of physiology and psychology. Because of anxiety, physical discomfort, discomfort, and because of these discomfort, the heart is more anxious.
Third: the vicious circle between several neurosis.
Indeed, when you suffer from anxiety disorder, your thoughts and actions will be restricted in various ways, and this restriction will aggravate anxiety disorder. If you want to cure anxiety, you must get rid of this vicious circle. Put forward the following suggestions.
1: I believe that anxiety can be cured and eventually recovered. Remind yourself from time to time with this mentality and strengthen your self-confidence.
2. since anxiety is a disease, there is a process that can't be cured in a day or two. Give yourself a relatively natural environment. Everything has an anxious side and a relaxed side. It's much better to think on the loose side, let nature take its course and relax.
Of course, I am not a professional doctor, so I can't give more professional advice, so I said my feelings, hoping to help.
The question to be answered today is: How to treat anxiety and fear? Let's compare it first. What is the difference? If a woman, her son is hospitalized because of "urticaria". She is always worried that her son will die at night. In fact, she went to see a doctor, who told her that the disease would not die. But she is still worried that her son will die. This kind of worry is "anxiety" rather than "fear".
A person is going to visit relatives tomorrow. On the way to relatives' home, there is a mountain road. He is very anxious and scared tonight. He is worried that it will rain on the road tomorrow. He is worried that it will rain and he will slip on this road. What should he do if there is danger? It didn't happen, but he had the fear it brought him. Is this fear "fear"? Don't! Not fear, but anxiety. All right! So anxiety and fear, slowly came out.
Urticaria is an incurable disease. In other words, her son is dying, and she is very anxious now. What is this anxiety? This is not real anxiety, this is fear. Because her son is really dying, she is afraid. If the second person who visits relatives really walks on the mountain road, it is raining heavily, and the road is bumpy and falls several times. At this time, he is very, very afraid. This fear is real fear, not anxiety. Why? Because things are happening.
The first point is the difference between "anxiety" and "fear". From this point of view, the difference between "anxiety" and "fear" lies in: one is the worry that has not yet happened; One is the fear that is happening. So "anxiety" didn't happen but I was afraid; "Fear" is happening, and I feel a kind of worry and anxiety. After making this distinction. You can compare the two. At once, it was compared with many problems in real life.
So it is different for us to comfort different people and help them. People who help "anxiety" are different from those who help "fear". Yes! Help the "fearful" person, because he is experiencing a real fearful event, so we should give him more support. How about helping "anxious" people? We should let him jump out and see that he is not in a fear event, but worried too much.
The second point is the value and characteristics of anxiety. With this, the second point is the value and characteristics of anxiety. Why is there "anxiety"? There is an inverted "U" theory in anxiety theory. ("u" is upside down, just like the lowercase letter n) This upside-down "u" is equivalent to an anxious line. If our anxiety is zero here, we will continue to go up. When we get here, it will be ten, twenty, thirty and forty, and when we get to the top, it will be fifty. Then this 50 points, 50 points of anxiety, is the time when a person is most efficient.
Why? Because anxiety makes people start a mechanism to pay more attention; More focused; Pay more attention to this matter; More involved in this matter. If this person is not anxious at all, then he is careless, and this thing is definitely inefficient. So we let others do the work, and we want to make him feel anxious.
But if we give him too much anxiety, we will say, you can't do it. If you can't do it well today, I will fire you tomorrow. The anxiety level of this person ranges from 50 to 60, 70, 80, 90. Let's see 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and we'll be down. After coming down, that is to say, the higher the anxiety score, the lower the efficiency of this person. He has been anxious: what should I do? So what should I do? How about tomorrow? What if I don't do well? All right! It's over. He has been immersed in anxiety. His work efficiency suddenly dropped.
So anxiety is a good thing. A certain degree of anxiety will make a person take something seriously and concentrate on doing a good job, so that he can concentrate on doing it well. But when the anxiety is too high, its efficiency will decline. Therefore, the value of anxiety lies in that it can make people start a working state-an engaged state. The characteristic of anxiety is that it can't be done without anxiety, and it can't be done with anxiety. This is about anxiety, and that's what we're talking about.
The third point is the value and characteristics of fear, and then we will talk about fear. When a person is afraid, he will start the defense mechanism: I am experiencing a dangerous environment. There is a snake in front. This snake is a poisonous snake. If you bite me, I'm dead. So I'm going to turn on the defensive state, so that I can be vigilant and not be hurt to save myself. So fear, first of all, one of its primitive instincts is to save your life and save yourself from harm-this is the value of fear.
Everyone thinks that one doesn't know how terrible fear is. Standing on the edge of the cliff, you look at the bottom, you feel happy and fun, and then it's over. A "fear sensing mechanism" will be activated immediately in your mind, and you will feel very scared. Step back quickly, so that you won't fall. So fear protects people. We said, "Fear is not terrible. It is terrible not to be afraid and not to know fear. "
There is a saying that "anyone who drowns can swim". Why? Because he can swim, his fear is not strong. So he may enter the waters of some strange places. He didn't understand, and as a result, a whirlpool whirled in. A weed below tied him up and blocked him from getting up. And the man who can't swim is afraid. He is afraid to go there. He is always groping over there. Oh, don't fall in, so he won't die. Why not drown? Because he is very careful.
So we should correctly understand these so-called negative emotions, fears and anxieties. They are all an instinctive need in our evolution. Because of some instincts we have evolved, the first function is to save our lives first, and the second function is to protect our survival, so that we can survive and develop. This is my answer to this question, thank you!
About the author:
Wei Zhizhong, member of NLD, member of Chinese Psychological Association, second-level psychological consultant and psychological supervisor. Engaged in psychological counseling and psychological education 18 years, published psychological works 17, and more than 60 papers. Visiting professor and invited researcher of China Environmental Protection University, Guangzhou University and Wuhan University. It has been interviewed and reported by hundreds of media such as People's Daily and Window of the South. He is currently the president of Guangzhou Heart Ribbon Psychological Volunteers Association and the president of Wei Zhizhong Psychological Online School, which has more than 20,000 students.
I am Zuo Shu, a psychology teacher who is engaged in psychology and mental health education. Let me answer your question.
Yes, how to treat anxiety and fear? I will answer your question from two aspects.
First, anxiety is a manifestation of fear; Specifically, first of all, fear is an emotional reaction such as worry and tension, and it is a psychological reaction of human beings and human individuals when facing the threat of external beasts or natural disasters. This is a defensive psychology that we have formed in the long process of evolution. When we encounter dangers and threats, we will show psychological activities such as fear, worry and tension, which is called anxiety in psychology, such as anxiety, fear and even panic. Secondly, anxiety also comes from our repression of satisfying desires (various psychological needs). For example, if you get up late in the morning, skip breakfast and have a meeting as soon as you get to work. You will take breakfast to the meeting room and eat it at the meeting, but you are worried that the leader will see the criticism, so you show fear emotionally and eat it secretly, but you are still uneasy.
Secondly, from the perspective of philosophy and psychology, emotional reactions such as anxiety and fear are all concerns about their own living conditions; For example, you need a job. Without it, you will be afraid and worry about three meals a day. However, with the job, you feel that the work pressure is too great and you feel that you can't do this job well. You will also worry about fear, that is, psychological pressure is manifested as anxiety; From the nature of human animals, anxiety (fear) is an innate psychological function. People cannot live without anxiety. Resisting external threats is our instinctive reaction. However, anxiety is not enough. If people are often in a state of anxiety, they will be too alert and often in a state of alert, which will affect our physical and mental health, leading to our irritability, excitability and even impulsiveness, which will turn into anxiety over time.
So anxiety is necessary, but excessive anxiety is a pathological phenomenon, so we must grasp the boundaries of moderate anxiety.
Thank you again for inviting psychology teacher Zuo Shu!
Anxiety and fear are common psychological states of modern people. There are many reasons for this mood, such as work, marriage, children's education, etc., which will bring you mood fluctuations. It can be said that as long as you step into life, you may be troubled by this aspect, so you need to know how to deal with the emotions here. The following suggestions are for your reference.
1. Is your anxiety a thing of the future? You think ahead of time about how to deal with that matter and think it over many times. If it is something to be reversed in the future, then what you are afraid of is not this thing, but the fear itself, so you don't have to worry about an idea.
If this thing is going to happen, don't run away. First, accept the existence of this matter from the heart, and then make a list. What is the worst possible outcome of this matter? Then try to accept these worst results, and you will relieve a lot of anxiety and fear.
3, in fact, those things that you are anxious about, even if they really happen, you will certainly be brave to deal with and face them. The reason for anxiety is that you are afraid of what you are anxious about. You have to escape, but you don't want to face it. You want to avoid it in your own way. But you should know that many things in life are unpredictable. You just need to take this step in front of you. It happened, and you are destined to face it.
No matter how anxious you are and how often you think about anxious things, don't stop what you are doing. Going to work and living a normal life can help you not to be limited to those things in your heart.
Remember: any fear is a paper tiger, it just tests your patience, determination and courage.
Fear is you and you are fear.
Because all fears come from your original memory, a person has never seen, heard or experienced death, and he will not have any fear of death. Only when his memory stores terrible marks about death will he be afraid. What you are afraid of is only your memory, not yourself.
How to treat anxiety and fear? This question, Chinese medicine is the most convincing!
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen dominates thinking, which can also cause anxiety, insomnia, dreaminess and cranky thoughts. Enlarge the small things, and you can repeat them many times in your mind, always worrying that you are not thoughtful enough! If you are such a person, it will be very bad for you if you have not been treated, and if it is serious, you will lose your morale!
Then talk about fear. Kidney governs fear. If there is something wrong with your kidney, it will cause fear. Sudden vibration, a little noise, can make you tremble all over, otherwise you won't come back for a long time. In fact, this is not a matter of personality, nor can you control it yourself! If you can't find a good doctor to treat this disease, the consequences will be terrible!
When you say anxiety and fear, it is actually a reaction to physical illness! The disease is not particularly serious. Find a good Chinese medicine practitioner, ask questions and treat it dialectically. I believe it will get better soon!
(Personal opinion, please advise)
As a nurse who has worked in a mental health center, I often see people coming to the hospital because of anxiety and fear.
These patients often feel worried and afraid because of certain things, such as the upcoming exam, the danger of being fired in the workplace and so on.
Patients like this are generally called anxiety and fear. This symptom is not accompanied by a change in mental characteristics, but if it is long-term, it may lead to anxiety and fear turning into anxiety and phobia.
For such patients, as long as psychological counseling is done well, anxiety and fear will soon disappear.
Therefore, if you have anxiety and fear about a specific goal, you can try to relax and be optimistic, or divert your attention and let yourself go. You must know that "everything will work out eventually." Don't worry too much about the future, don't worry about the past, and be the best you are now.
However, some of our patients were diagnosed with anxiety and phobia, and these patients were much more serious than those with only these two emotions.
Anxiety and phobia are actually two kinds of psychological diseases in clinic, so we will discuss them separately.
Anxiety disorder anxiety disorder is the most common disease in neurosis, which is generally divided into chronic anxiety and acute anxiety in clinic.
1. Chronic anxiety
Usually, in the absence of obvious incentives, patients often have inexplicable worries and fears, which often have no specific objects and contents. Patients are always in fear.
2. Acute anxiety
This kind of anxiety is not that patients have been immersed in anxious emotions, but that many times there is no difference with normal people. When the mind is stimulated and influenced, it will attack quickly and enter the stage of extreme fear when it attacks. This fear will even make patients experience the feeling of dying.
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medicine
For this kind of anxiety and fear, which can be defined as anxiety disorder, medication is needed, and benzodiazepines and antidepressants are common.
psychotherapy
As the name implies, it is to help patients slowly change their mentality and relieve or even eliminate anxiety symptoms through communication with professional psychologists.
Phobia refers to patients who often have very serious but unnecessary fears about certain objects or environments, accompanied by anxiety and neurological symptoms. Patients often know that their fears are meaningless, but they can't control their neurological symptoms.
Phobias are generally divided into three categories.
1. Social phobia
Social phobia is familiar to everyone. This is the most common phobia in our clinic. Among the patients with social phobia, most people can't control their emotions in social situations, and often feel anxious and afraid. Most people deliberately avoid it because of fear.
Some patients even dare not look at others, and when they see others looking at themselves, they will feel extremely anxious and afraid. We call this kind of patient the fear of looking at each other.
2. Specific phobia
Patients with specific phobia will have strong and meaningless fear, anxiety and even boredom about a specific object or emotion.
This disease mostly occurs in childhood, such as being very afraid of certain animals, afraid of blood and so on.
3. Place phobia
Such patients often feel that they can't walk out in a crowded environment and are very afraid of empty places. In this environment, there is often no immediate exit and no one to accompany, and patients feel isolated.
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medicine
Commonly used drugs include benzodiazepines and/or antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants.
psychotherapy
For this phobia, psychotherapy is more important than medication, and patients should actively cooperate with psychologists to change their mentality in time.
Summary: The above is the advice given by a nurse based on her own experience, hoping to help everyone!
I'm a counselor.
Anxiety is a common emotion of people, and people will feel anxious more or less. People's dissatisfaction with reality produces anxiety about the uncertainty of the future, and moderate anxiety makes people forge ahead and produce stronger upward force.
But excessive anxiety will hinder people's development. The relationship between anxiety and promotion is an inverted U-shaped curve. People in modern society generally have some excessive anxiety, and how to alleviate these anxiety has become a social problem.
Fear is a kind of self-protection, because you think you may get hurt. From an objective point of view, if a subject or an action may cause harm to ourselves, then we will feel afraid and stay away, so as to avoid such harm. Such emotions are conducive to survival within the normal range.
But also, excessive fear, even fear without realistic foundation, may be phobia, such as elevator phobia, acrophobia and so on. If it doesn't affect real life, there is no need to change it. If there is, then psychological counseling is needed.
Anxiety = dissatisfaction with your present+worry about the future.
Influenced by the living environment, we always run counter to the person we want to be, so there are constant inner conflicts.
We may use various ways to eliminate contradictions, but many times we will fall into deeper fear, anxiety and despair, resulting in neurosis.