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Toxic anxiety: keys to its recognition:
Toxic anxiety: keys to its recognition
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п»їAnxiety is a negative emotion that is not in itself unhealthy. However, when anxiety becomes chronic and unjustified it becomes a painful and toxic emotion, which can limit us too much in our day to day life.
What we want to emphasize is that in principle anxiety is normal and healthy, as it helps us to maintain some activation to protect us from imminent dangers or to perform some tasks.
However, despite its protective nature, we fear its appearance for the simple fact that we are afraid of perpetuating anguish, worry, nervousness, palpitations, intense thoughts, sweating, etc.
Then we give way to the creation of a sort of vicious circle through which we feel anxiety when we predict it. That is to say that the same fear that generates the emotion in itself gives way to the same sensations and the same reality that generates so much fear.
The monster of adrenaline and cortisolThis state that we are going to call "vicious circle of anxiety" is accompanied by the activity of two main hormones: adrenaline and cortisol. To understand how they work, we can think of how we respond when we trip on a flight of stairs. Automatically our heart skips a beat and we tend to reach for the railing to safeguard our physical integrity.
This set of sensations, which correspond to healthy anxiety, provide us with energy and strength to protect ourselves. These are moments of tremendous and unpleasant excitement in which our body admits, out of necessity, the collaboration of a good amount of adrenaline and cortisol.
We could also think of a roller coaster ride in which the sensations make it unpleasant and violent, the opposite of fun. It happens that when we are about to fall down the stairs or when we ride that roller coaster, we know that the sensations are fleeting and that as soon as they come, they will go away.
However, when the dangers respond to expectations or thoughts that seek to foretell future dangers, we don't let the friendly adrenaline monster go to sleep. As we do not let it go to sleep, the monster feeds on our worries in the form of adrenaline, which traps us more and more in these feelings of anguish without having anything to justify it.
In other words, adrenaline and cortisol are left with nothing and no one to save from the dragon. They are there, present, because we feed them with thoughts of the future that predict bad experiences.
So it all gets trapped inside us even though it seeks to get out and free itself. That is why attacks occur, why insomnia, negative thoughts and feelings of blockage are perpetuated.
Some masks that toxic anxiety uses to manifest itself
Chronic worry
Anxiety can make itself known through incessant worry about family, health, academic or work goals, economic situation, etc. It is probable that before these worries we feel that our stomach is in full spin and that we have the sensation that something bad will happen although we do not know what and why.
Fears and phobias
An excessive fear of needles, blood, medical procedures, heights, elevators, the dentist, water, animals such as spiders or reptiles, dogs, storms, enclosed places, etc. This type of mask is another tough image that anxiety chooses to show itself.
Performance anxiety
Sometimes anxiety causes us to freeze up before an academic exam, a performance, a sports competition, or any other situation that involves performing well in the execution of a task.
Anxiety about public speaking
Disproportionate fear of public speaking is another of anxiety's "favorite ways" to show itself. We feel that the world is spinning at a thousand revolutions per hour, we tremble, we feel nervous and we believe that our mind will go blank the moment the ridicule we make is more than evident.
Social phobia
Feeling nervous, tense and unable to articulate words in social gatherings is another mask that anxiety uses to greet us. Things like "I don't have anything interesting to say", "I can't talk to anyone", "they will think I'm a weird and unsuccessful person", "I'm not worth anyone's interest", etc. go through our minds.
Panic attacks
Sweating, dizziness, blocking, stiffness, strong palpitations, intense fear... Have you ever felt this suddenly and thought you were dying? If so, this time anxiety has put on a cruel disguise: the panic attack.
Agoraphobia
Are you afraid of being outside your home? Do you have the clear conviction that something horrible can happen to you on the street, in the supermarket queue or on the city bus? Do you feel that you are going to suffer, for example, a panic attack and that no one will be able to help you? Anxiety has taken the form of agoraphobia or, in other words, an intense fear of being in public spaces.
Obsessions and compulsions
There are thoughts that harass you incessantly and that you cannot get out of your head. At the same time something inside you compels you to perform constant superstitious rituals in order to control your fears.
For example, you may feel the need to constantly wash your hands, to check several times that you have locked your door or to say 10 Our Fathers to protect your family. Anxiety has disguised itself as obsessions and compulsions, one of its darkest suits.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Have you experienced a traumatic event (sexual abuse, mistreatment, witnessing a murder, etc.) months or years ago and the images of that horrible situation keep coming back to your mind? You don't sleep well and you don't feel safe in the face of it? Consult a mental health specialist because the anxiety may be manifesting as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Preoccupation with physical appearance (body dysmorphic disorder)
Your physical appearance seems tremendously abnormal but only you see what you feel, the rest of the people around you tell you "it's no big deal", that your nose, your body or your hair are normal.
It is likely that you feel the need to put yourself in the hands of cosmetic surgery and that you constantly look in the mirror with the intention of correcting your defect. Anxiety may manifest itself in the form of body dysmorphic disorder, keep this in mind and seek a mental health specialist for consultation.
Preoccupation with health (hypochondriasis)
Aches, pains, fatigue, dizziness, discomfort... You are sure that there is some disease lurking in your health but the doctor does not see anything in the tests he/she performs on you. Even their explanations may no longer reassure you.
You may be a victim of anxiety in hypochondriasis mode, so to be on the safe side, find a good psychologist to examine your beliefs and your thinking about your health.
Notes to the reader
In no way should the content of this article be taken as a diagnosis. The idea is to bring to the reader the possibility that anxiety is present in your mind without you being aware of it. It is essential that in case of any suspicion they contact a health professional who will evaluate and treat them if necessary.
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