Anxiety is a cognitive process, it occurs in the mind. It involves mentally preparing for a possible negative situation in the future. The concern includes two components; The first involves thinking about negative things that can happen and those negative things. The second includes mentally designing solutions to this negativity. To sum up, worry is thinking and planning about the future, thinking ahead of what might happen and creating possible solution scenarios. ‘Oh…. What if!'.
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Concerns are thoughts about the future. If you feel anxiety when you remember an event from the past, this feeling is due to the connection of that event with the future.
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Anxiety is always negative.
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Uncertainty is the primary trigger. experiences increase anxiety.
When does worry become a problem?
Everyone worries from time to time, and it's perfectly normal. When you hear the news of pregnancy, when you are promoted at work, during exams, when you need to move, you will be more worried. Just because you're worried doesn't mean there's a problem. However, when you feel this way most days, when it is excessive, it can be portrayed as a problem when you have trouble controlling it. For example, if you are too worried to concentrate for an upcoming exam, if you are worried enough to cancel the interview, you need to learn to keep your anxiety under control.
UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY…
Worry happens in the mind while anxiety happens in the body. It consists of the physical sensations that people experience when they feel threatened or threatened. Acceleration in heartbeat, gastrointestinal problems, hot flashes, sleep problems, restlessness, tremor, sweating, dizziness, etc.
Anxiety is part of a larger system designed for our body's survival: the fight-flight system. It prepares you to fight or flee a threat. but m There are 2 problems with this system for people with a primitive past trying to keep up with the modern age.
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First, it is triggered whenever you think you are in danger, even when you are not really in danger... From this perspective, anxiety can be compared to a smoke detector in your home. . A smoke detector whose main purpose is to warn you against a fire, but can sometimes chime into cigarette smoke.
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Secondly, this system, whose purpose is to warn us against dangers, does not have the feature of distinguishing the type of danger. It is sensitive not only to physical threat but also to social threat. Your boss may be angry with you for being late for work. But it may not be because your boss will hurt you physically.
When does anxiety become a problem?
Although we can feel anxiety in non-physical situations, we can only It becomes a problem when we experience it frequently and seriously reduce our quality of life.
It is very important to name the emotion you are experiencing correctly, in order to know what we are fighting and to be able to choose the appropriate one from our toolbox. Take a short thought break and ask yourself; Are you worried or worried?
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