There are more reasons for feeling anxious than you can shake a stick at. Stress at work or at home. Child not doing too well at school. A loved one ill in hospital. You name it. The problem is when you feel anxious all the time. If this is the case, you must seek professional help, and quickly, for any number of reasons.
The main one, obviously, is to rid yourself of these unpleasant moods and start to live a normal life again. But anxiety can promote other very unpleasant diseases, depression and panic attacks being just two.
You're probably suffering from GAD, or General Anxiety Disorder. Your muscles ache, you have problems sleeping, and even if you do sleep, you wake up tired. Also, for reasons you can't explain, you always feel on edge, as though you're expecting something terrible to happen at any minute. This makes you irritable and probably gives you frequent headaches. The makers of Aspirin love you, because you're taking handfulls of their product.
Also, because you're so keyed up, you find yourself sweating all the time, either that or you're experiencing cold chills, just as you would if you were really anxious about something positive, like going to an interview for an important job, or meeting an important business contact for the first time.
But you know this isn't the case. There's nothing whatever you should feel anxious about. You look around you and see that you enjoy your job. It's safe, there are no pink slips floating around. Your spouse is caring and helpful and of course very concerned about you. So why?
Well, our old friends serotonin and norepinephrine are probably up to their tricks again. They've woken up one morning and decided it would be great fun to get out of whack and cause you horrible discomfort. Let's make it absolutely clear, though. No-one knows nor understands the workings of the mind. Doctors think that it's these two neurotransmitters that cause all these mental problems, but no-one's sure. Treating mental illness is, to put it crudely, a crapshoot.
Your genes can have a lot to do with it, too. If a member or members of your family, your mother and father, etc., suffered from depression or other mental problems, then it's quite likely that you will too. Not necessarily, though. Five per cent of U.S. adults suffer from GAD every year, and often it comes out of the blue and hits them amidships, without their having a clue why.
Their families were never inflicted by any sort of mental disorder, so why it suddenly attacks them, they have no idea. Frankly, nor does anyone else, for that matter. Anxiety and panic attacks often start in childhood, but just because you were free of such disorders when you were young, doesn't mean you're home free now that you've reached adulthood.
The point is that you may be susceptible to GAD all your life, and never suffer from it. On the other hand, stress at work may trigger it. Any outside source may start you off down the dark, spiral path to mental misery.
Alcoholism is much the same. Some people can drink a bottle of gin a day, and stop it whenever they want to. There was one case, though, where this old lady hadn't had a drink all her life, but one Christmas she decided to have a nip of something. Before anyone knew it, she was a raving alcoholic.
Anxiety and panic attacks can work in just the same way. Often, all they need is a spark
Mike Bond, explaining about GAD. He knows these wretched feelings only too well. If you turn around, you expect to see someone coming up behind you with a baseball bat! Sufferers have his deepest sympathy, though, and if he can ever help anyone, just as a shoulder to cry on if nothing else, he's only too delighted to do so. First, though, have a look at his website. It's well worth it, if only to read his personal stories
http://www.panattack.com
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