Anxiety
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Anxiety is a human feeling of worry, fear or unease that everyone experiences at times as a reaction to stress. It can be healthy and helpful to feel worried and/or nervous when faced with a work challenge, an exam or making an important decision. Such anxiety can motivate necessary action and subsides once the stressful event passes.
Anxiety becomes unhealthy and unhelpful when the stress reaction does not subside, and it interferes with everyday living. Continuous experience of the heightened physical sensations, thoughts and feelings associated with anxiety can lead to a state of insecurity and a sense of being on edge and out of control. Huge amounts of planning and hypervigilance may be put into achieving what were simple tasks. Driven by fear, more people, places and things may be avoided. Coping with excessive anxiety can lead to exhaustion, inability to sleep, depression, addiction, anger outbursts and relationship difficulties. Excessive fears and worry, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive behaviours and post traumatic stress reactions are all forms of out-of-control anxiety. If your days are taken over by anxiety it can feel as if you are going crazy. But anxiety is not something all-powerful and inexplicable. At Waterford Anxiety Counselling we provide a safe and confidential space where you are heard and facilitated to manage anxiety through psychoeducation, self compassion and practical tools. |
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