Many people live with anxiety problems and never ask for help to defeat this 21st-century disease. There is a lot of information on anxiety, but few people or articles tell us when to go for psychological help and what symptoms to look out for.
How to recognize anxiety problems?
First of all, I want to show you what are the symptoms of harmful anxiety; For this, we must bear in mind that we all experience anxiety, which is one more emotion that is there and that also helps us to face day-to-day problems; it is, so to speak, something that helps us adapt to the environment. The problem comes when it increases considerably and makes our day-to-day tasks difficult. Here I have compiled a series of symptoms that recur in many of the patients I treat and have treated.
1. Throat/chest pressure
We do not know why he is coming, we have probably gone to our family doctor to ask him and he has told us that what we have is anxiety, or in other cases he has referred us to another specialist or even has medicated us. In almost 95% of cases, this is a symptom of anxiety.
2. Chronic tiredness
You wake up and you're tired, you eat and you're tired, the weekend comes and you're tired. In the end, your sleep is not deep and you need to rest better, but your head cannot disconnect, it is important to learn techniques to relax the muscles more, and thus the body disconnects more.
3. Lack of sleep or intermittent sleep
It occurs when you wake up many times at night very nervous thinking about an idea/dream that of course causes you anguish. This dream is related to your obsessive thoughts or worries from day to day, you live perhaps with too many responsibilities and these are reflected in your unconscious that is seen in dreams at night.
4. Impulsiveness for food
Wanting to eat nonstop during episodes of acute stress is often the case among patients. They calm their nervousness by eating large amounts of, especially unhealthy food.
5. Lack of appetite
There is also the other extreme. A lack of appetite is also common in people with anxiety problems because they experience that they have a closed stomach.
6. Gastrointestinal problems
As simple as that when we have stressed our body generates cortisol, and this makes the stomach defend itself by increasing pain when making contractions or increasing the production of stomach acid.
7. Headache
This is very broad, since the lack of rest and being nervous generates this ailment.
8. Disconnection
The person who suffers from it focuses on his world and hardly interacts with his surroundings, thus suffering twice as much and feeling more and more that nobody understands him.
9. Explosiveness of character
Something like "everything feels bad to me." Normally you feel that you explode at the least and that nobody understands you. This is very frequent because you have reached a point of maximum restlessness in which you cannot stand anyone telling you anything.
10. Concentration problems
Obviously, having worries makes it harder for us to stay focused for long periods.
11. Loss of hobbies
Nothing entertains you, your free time is based on sitting or watching TV. You feel the syndrome of "I have nothing to do" and at that very moment things occur to you that you left halfway.
Read more about "What are intrusive thoughts and why do they appear"
When do I have to ask for help?
If you ask me if your problem has a solution, I have to say yes; My job is to make you improve through the different techniques that I have studied that go hand in hand with the experience I have gained over the years with patients, and we must not forget that your job is to get involved and follow the directions that I'm giving you.
You must be clear that going to the psychologist is not a situation that should occur only in emergencies, but also as prevention to avoid greater evils. When these symptoms begin to weigh you down and you feel like you're overwhelmed, it's time to put yourself in the hands of a specialist.
Why choose a psychological treatment? It is important to be clear that pharmacological treatment is not exclusive at all, and that through good therapy we will be able to achieve mental skills to deal with day-to-day problems that a pill can never provide us with.
Shall we start?
My name is Christina Ettore and I am Adelaide Naturopath - Weight Loss Specialist as well as couples therapy and intervention in depression. My studies together with the years of experience treating this psychological pathology will make the treatment more effective.
If you are looking for therapy where you are an active part through practical exercises that I will put you between session and session and run away from chat therapy, do not hesitate to contact me.
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