Everyone’s experience of anxiety disorders is different. Not everyone who has an anxiety disorder will experience the same symptoms.
Mental symptoms of anxiety can include:
racing thoughts and uncontrollable over-thinking, difficulties concentrating, panic or impending doom’, feeling irritable, difficulty sleeping (insomnia), lack of appetite, agoraphobia and fear of crowded spaces.
Physical symptoms of anxiety can include:
sweating, heavy and fast breathing, hot flushes or blushing, dry mouth, shaking, hair loss, fast heartbeat, extreme tiredness or lack of energy, dizziness and fainting and stomach aches and sickness.
Sometimes anxiety will trigger panic attacks. For example, you may have a panic attack if you do not like small places, but you have to use a lift.
Some common situations where you may experience anxiety are the following:
· Speaking in public or in large groups.
· Meeting new people or strangers.
· On a date.
· Eating or drinking in public.
Attending a job interview.
· being in a crowded space where you may worry that you will do something that is embarrassing.
Due to this, many times when anxiety presents, it can cause havoc in our day to day lives; sending a spiral of thoughts and feelings around our minds that overwhelm us and cause a ripple effect which will bleed into many different aspects of our lives. What begins as low-level worry or doubt if left unchecked can quickly escalate into more troublesome issues, such as depression and severe mental health challenge.
How is anxiety best handled?
Every single person is different so taking a bespoke approach can offer the best results as it considers the whole person and their experiences and personal filters, as opposed to a one size fits all approach that’s assumes everyone’s issues can be resolved in the same way. Especially as two individuals can experience the same event and have very different thoughts and feelings about it.
For example:
Two teenagers are in an English class and present a piece of work before the class, the teacher gives them feedback which includes some constructive points to improve their work. One of the teenagers takes this as a very personal attack on the work which they have put a lot of time and effort into and as such develops a deep dislike for the teacher, going on to underperform in his class from then onwards. The second student takes the feedback, works on the points and comes back with a more rounded piece of work, they enjoy the classes going forwards and have a very good relationship with the teacher throughout the remainder of their schooling.
Now, the teacher treated both children the same, and they have no control on the filter, linked experiences, and responses of either student to the interactions. This is a prime example of how the map in NOT the territory, to explain lets address what is happening in the background:
The 1st Student has a difficult homelife with parents who criticise them and they feel a lack of support, when the teacher gave the feedback, they took this as being the same as those previous experiences and added to an existing pain point relating to criticism or feedback. The 2nd teenager has an incredibly supportive and encouraging family who give feedback for improvement, are supportive and never criticise the student, meaning she has no pain point and therefor no response or triggers.
This is an example of how our prior experiences can leave a lasting mark if we do not resolve the negatives within them, allowing trigger points to be formed as the underpinning emotions are creating new links as we grow and learn. If we are adding more negative learning, we are reinforcing what has already been settled into place and that is where the difficulties are presenting from, this therefor is where they are best resolved from.
Transitional Coaching’s unique approach of resolving the challenge at the roots allows the previous experiences that led to the current day challenge to be removed also, ensuring that there is nothing remaining for triggers to be linked to. So if we again link this to the scenario of the teenagers. The issues the 1st teenager had experienced with their family would be included in their healing as this is likely where the root sits, by dealing with this and not just the trigger experienced from the interaction with the teacher, there will be no chain for a future link to attach to.
The emptying of the mental waste bin so to speak. If it takes between 5 and 40 positive to outweigh every one negative this removal of old negatives gives individuals the strongest chance at a happy and positive future.
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