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As a Holistic energy practitioner I have had an awareness of the many clients and friends I have seen with ‘anxiety’ in many forms and recently I have been working on a ‘free’ anxiety program’ to allow those with ‘anxiety to take back control of their lives.

I will be offering a series of short ‘blog’ posts on the differing identified areas or types of anxieties prior to the release of this program called The 7 Steps to Freedom so that if you or someone you love suffers from this often debilitating condition then you know that help is at hand.

Excessive Worrying

Is it Anxiety I have been asked? My family have always been excessive worriers; maybe that’s what’s wrong with me?

Every one experiences worrying at some time in their life, it may be as simple as a fleeting thought about missing an appointment ranging through generalized worrying about daily affairs to ‘excessive worrying’.

One of the useful forms of ’worrying’ is being able to look at possible solutions to a situation or a problem, and to ‘nut it out’ in your mind is an old phrase that fits with this level of worrying.

A deeper level of worrying may be when you have ‘thoughts or worries’ about future events, the what if this that or something else were to happen, often these worries can be unfounded however they may begin to take up significantportions of your day and to begin to have an effect on your physical mental and emotional states.

One of my ‘worries’ as a child through to being an adult was of any one ‘going away’ especially on a journey were ‘goodbyes’ were said. I would become ‘wrapped up in the feelings and then I would become extremely emotional and to use an old word ‘distraught’ and yet I would recover quite quickly once the person had actually left.

More excessive worrying is also identified in many instances as GAD of Generalised Anxiety Disorder and may be characterized by fairly constant feelings of apprehension or an expectance that ‘something’ is going to happen and irrational worrying or concerns about the possibility of threats to one’s self and or ones loved ones.

Worrying and in some instances Anxieties can be either a short term or a long term state of being. It may present as a concern or a worry about a specific circumstance in your life for example, a job interview, a test or an exam, or simply doing something with which you are not familiar.

In the long term anxiety can have a much more profound effect on your body and the symptoms or the frequency of the symptoms that you experience may be much more profound, and in these instances it can literally take over a person’s life due to its frequency or the debilitating effects that it produces.

I am going to talk about the different types of anxieties in this series of short blog posts and share with you some of the symptoms that are associated with the differing forms of anxieties and related ‘phobias’.

Anxiety can be classified as a disorder when the symptoms of anxiety become longstanding or ‘chronic’ and have an effect on our daily lives and our ability to function in our everyday life

In general anxiety sufferers will often report the following symptoms:

• Muscle tension especially in the head and shoulders and back
• Physical weaknesses as in feeling as if you have not got the energy to do something or that your legs do not want to hold you up for example
• Poor memory or poor short term memory
• Sweaty hands or breaking out into a sweat
• Fear or confusion, these can be either one or both and may fluctuate
• Inability to relax this can relate to being constantly tense or on edge
• Constant worrying even when you know that there is not anything to worry about
• Shortness of breath or feeling as if you cannot take a deep breath
• Palpitations or feelings of your heart fluttering which may be accompanied by shortness of breath
• Upset stomach as in feeling heavy or nauseous in the stomach, and may lead to reflux or vomiting
• Poor concentration or an inability to quieten the mind

With people in the ‘Excessive Worrying’ levels of anxieties these symptoms may also include ‘tremors’ and in some instances bouts of nausea and vomiting.

These symptoms may range from mild to severe and be upsetting enough to make the individual feel uncomfortable, out of control and helpless.

*If in doubt that your symptoms are more than ‘anxiety’ please seek the appropriate medical advice.

Anxieties and anxiety disorders fall into a series of separate categories or diagnoses depending on the individual symptoms and the severity of the levels of anxiety the person is experiencing. The broad overview of the types of anxiety disorders I will be discussing in this series on anxieties includes.

1 Anxieties

2 Worrying

3 OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

4 Social Anxieties

5 Anxieties and phobias

6 Fear of flying’

7 Fears of things that walk crawl run or fly e.g. Birds, Moths, Spiders, and Cats.

8 Separation anxiety

9 Performance anxiety

10 Fear of Failure exams

11 Fear of Failure Business

12 Fear of death or dying

13 GAD general anxiety disorder

14 Post Natal Depression

15 Panic attacks

16 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

In support of the ‘Free ‘ 7 Steps to Freedom program I have started a FB Community called Anxiety Need Not Be A Life Sentence at the link below. If this resonates with you I would invite you to please join us and be a part of this supportive community or to share the information with those to whom it may be of assistance

Peace Love and Light

Sheila

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