People think Anxiety is just constantly being worried, but Anxiety is much more than that. Everyone feels worried from time to time, but Anxiety could make your life horrible. Anxiety can do a lot to your daily routine.
Anxiety can make it seem impossible to do many things for example talking in front of people, being in large groups of people and sometimes even something as simple as eating at a restaurant. When you do go and do something that causes you to have Anxiety some things will happen for example sweating, nausea, fast heartbeat and difficulty breathing. Anxiety can make it very difficult to concentrate leaving you with more Anxiety because you might not have finished your task. People with Anxiety can get more headaches. Anxiety can make it very difficult to sleep some people with Anxiety can’t sleep at night because they can’t stop thinking about what happened today or what is going to happen tomorrow which leads to not much sleep.
The most common symptom people get with Anxiety are Panic attacks. Panic attacks can happen for a lot of reasons maybe you got yelled at and that really made you panic, or you have a test coming up but majority of the time it’s going to be from something related to panicking. Panic attacks can make you cry, shake, difficulty breathing, and your thoughts may take over. You could go pale and start pacing or throw up from the feeling of panic. Panic attacks are almost like you’re drowning but you’re not drowning in water you’re drowning in your thoughts.
Have you ever wondered how doctors diagnose someone with Anxiety? It certainly isn’t easy. There are no tests to diagnose Anxiety instead of tests doctors look at their patients physical, psychological and social past before they diagnose a person with Anxiety. Anxiety is different in everyone, so people use different things to help them cope with their Anxiety. People commonly use Tranquilizers or Sedatives to help with their Anxiety. Others use illegal drugs to help Anxiety people say it helps their Anxiety when they do the drugs. Valium and Xanax are the most popular illegal drugs used to help Anxiety. Half of people 12 and older use prescription drugs that aren’t for proper use from friends and family for free. When doctors first found Anxiety in their patients, they used a group of drugs called Barbiturates. Barbiturates were dangerous and highly addictive. The drugs can be taken safely but only for a short period of time. Most patients that got prescribed Barbiturates became highly addicted.
Anxiety is much more than nerves. We’re all familiar with nerves but we aren’t familiar with Anxiety. Anxiety and its symptoms can change your life and make everything so much harder. Imagine you got Anxiety every time you walk into a restaurant, or you do something as simple as walk in your hallway at school. Anxiety is such a hard thing to live with.