Anxiety is part of our everyday life but chronic anxiety is a type of mental illness.
It is neither a temporary problem nor does it get away with medications. It can have serious consequences on health such as depression, mood swings, headache, panic attacks, pounding heart, breathing problems, extreme fatigue, increase in blood pressure and so on. Everything starts in the brain and how it functions is still a topic of discussion for many researchers. In the past i read a couple of books on brain but i personally feel rewire your anxious brain: how to use the neuroscience of fear to end anxiety, panic, and worry by catherine m.
Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? in rewire your anxious brain, psychologist catherine pittman and author elizabeth karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research. In the book, you will learn how the amygdala and cortex (both important parts of the brain) are essential players in the neuropsychology of anxiety. The amygdala acts as a primal response, and oftentimes, when this part of the brain processes fear, you may not even understand why you are afraid. By comparison, the cortex is the center of “worry.
Where Am I At?
Anxiety can be troublesome, right?
it doesn’t matter what aspect of your life is; if there is anxiety, it can limit your growth.
It can stop you from doing things that grow your brain. For example:
if english isn’t your first language, you might get anxious before giving a speech in front of an audience. Sometimes, you don’t even know why you are anxious:
your heart rate increases. You feel hopeless all of a sudden. These all are the symptoms of anxiety. Now imagine:
you are going to do an important task, and suddenly anxiety strikes you. It’d be horrible, right?
the worst thing is:
when anxiety strikes, our brain feels helpless.
Health news july 2021 by ginny graves
we all have them — those days or nights when the brain simply won’t shut up. Round and round it goes, generating worries and destroying your concentration. Called rumination, it’s as though your brain is stuck in gear and overheating. You can learn to help it slow down and cool off, however. To turn off your brain, you must learn to take your focus off the worry. Practiced regularly, these techniques can help eliminate rumination. Remember, it’s not the worry that’s the problem; it’s the brain latching on like a dog with a bone and chewing it to pieces.
Selena gomez and emma stone have both spoken out about their anxiety. Photos: instagram @selenagomez, getty images there’s an almond-shaped part of your brain called the amygdala which controls stress and anxiety. Lizza gebilagin finds out how to quell it. The brain is a fascinating, time-saving beast. It has fast-tracked responses to certain situations so you don’t even have to think about reacting, you just do. This becomes a problem, though, when your automatic response is one of fear in situations where, in reality, there’s nothing to be afraid of. It could be that you go into a state of panic every time you’re called in to a meeting with your boss, because years ago, you lost your job in a similar way.