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Anxiety
Each and every day can bring a
stressful situation into your life.
Sometime it's small issues that
causes stress, sometimes it takes
a little more. Whatever the cause
stress can make it hard if not impossible
to function in certain situations
making hurting our productivity
and putting our health, happiness
and wel being at risk. Stress causes
anxiety and if it continues for
too long a it can lead to panic
attacks. Learning to cope with anxiety
before it gets out of hand can go
a long way to improving health.
What Causes Anxiety?
Anxiety is caused when the demands
placed upon by our jobs, individuals,
or daily life are more than our
ability to cope. While a certain
amount of stress is expected, even
welcomed when a new or unexpected
situation arises, the amount of
people are suffering from constant
anxiety are increasing. They feel,
unhappy depressed and even fearful
to the point where panic attacks
begin to control their life. Coping
with anxiety and stress is important
for both your long term health and
your happiness.
Identifying Stress
Identifying the causes of stress
and anxiety is the first step in
being able to deal with it. Keeping
a journal will help you to identify
the situations that are causing
you stress. The journal should list
the event that caused you to feel
anxious, the physical and emotional
symptoms you felt and what you did
to correct the situation and if
it worked or not.
Coping with Anxiety
Once you know what situations bring
on feelings of stress you can begin
to come up with ways of coping with
anxiety that will reduce its impact.
There are four things you can do.
You can avoid the situations or
the people who are causing you stress.
You can find a way to change the
situation. You can adapt to the
situation or you can accept that
the situation as what it is.
Coping with anxiety by avoiding
the situation means saying not being
afraid to say no. Saying no to extra
work or social obligations this
will make you feel less anxious
and may even eliminate situations
that cause you to have panic attacks.
Coping with anxiety by altering
the situation is also possible.
If doing your errands on your lunch
hour makes you feel stressed due
to time restraints or heavy traffic,
then do those errands when time
is not an issue. Altering the situation
may prevent panic attacks caused
by this kind of stress.
Being able to Adapt yourself to
stressful situations simply means
trying to remain positive under
stress. A positive outlook can go
a long way to lower the amount of
anxiety you feel. Instead of stressing
because every Monday morning you
get a desk full of files, concentrate
on the fact that by Wednesday your
desk will be mostly clear and you
will have a lighter work load the
rest of the week. Better yet, concentrate
on the top of the pile and don't
worry about the bottom until you
are there.
The last way of coping with anxiety
is simply by accepting that there
are some situations you cannot change.
Focus instead on those things you
can control.
Managing your stress is simply
a matter of applying whatever techniques
allow you to feel better about the
situation and your way of handling
it.
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