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Anxiety
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
You may know anxiety as a feeling of unease, tension, nervousness, and/or worry. Almost everyone experiences these feelings in various times and circumstances. Anxiety is a normal response to something that is not right. It signals you to pay attention to the situation. Anxious feelings can help focus your mind as you navigate the various forces and stressors of everyday, postmenopausal life. However, if the feelings of unease and worry accompany you everywhere, through many situations, then you might have an actual anxiety disorder. This shows up as excessive and persistent worry, tension, and nervousness, often with physical symptoms. You may not be aware of how much of your time and energy is consumed by worry and how long you’ve been holding tension in your body and mind. On a more positive note, many postmenopausal women do not experience anxiety as a disorder but rather as a temporary, situational, emotional condition.
Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes
Published in Jahangir Moini, Matthew Adams, Anthony LoGalbo, Complications of Diabetes Mellitus, 2022
Jahangir Moini, Matthew Adams, Anthony LoGalbo
Anxiety is the result of a biological process to preserve and maintain wellness. However, at severe levels, anxiety can be extremely dangerous. Anxiety occurs when feelings of fear, apprehension, and distress become overwhelming, and completion of normal life activities, or even enjoying life, becomes very difficult. Persistent and excessive fear and worry develop, which are out of proportion to the cause of the situation. Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive, uncontrolled, and irrational worry about circumstances, events, or situations. It interferes with health, finances, family relationships, friendships, interpersonal relationships, and work. With diabetes mellitus, many people experience increased stress because of the long-term management of the disease. If concerns about the disease become intense, anxiety can result. People with diabetes are about 20% more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety than those without.
Psychiatry and social medicine
Published in Jagdish M. Gupta, John Beveridge, MCQs in Paediatrics, 2020
Jagdish M. Gupta, John Beveridge
A small amount of worry is normal in any new social situation but excessive worrying and fears are manifestations of anxiety. The child is often shy, timid and clinging, emotionally immature, over-dependent and has attention-seeking behaviour and poor self esteem. The child may appear to be more confident and competent than he or she really feels. Sleep problems are rare.
Psychotherapeutic treatments for generalized anxiety disorder: cognitive and behavioral therapies, enhancement strategies, and emerging efforts
Published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2022
Michelle G. Newman, Candice Basterfield, Thane M. Erickson, Evan Caulley, Amy Przeworski, Sandra J. Llera
Within the CBT framework, worry reduction is the key treatment target; however, CAM would suggest that extant treatments aimed at challenging worry patterns may attempt to remove the cognitive defense of worry without treating the underlying core fear. CAM treatment would need to specifically target contrast avoidance to address maladaptive patterns of worry. Targeting contrast avoidance in treatment could be achieved via exposure to relaxation or other positive states followed by negative emotional stimuli. The treatment of negative contrast sensitivity could also incorporate cognitive and behavioral interventions. Cognitive intervention could modify the belief that negative emotional contrasts are dangerous, fostering the counter-narrative that allowing oneself to experience a broad range of emotions and emotional shifts constitutes a fuller, braver, more authentic life than remaining perpetually in a painfully negative mood to brace oneself against future negative mood shifts. Behaviorally, repeated exposure to a relaxed state followed by a negative emotional contrast may help patients habituate and reduce aversion to sudden negative contrasts [108].
The Relevance of the Five Elements of Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Psychiatry, 2021
This review underscores how each of the principles outlined by Hobfoll and colleagues are as applicable during the pandemic as they are after other disasters. It should be noted, however, that the pandemic raises particular challenges. One of the common problems in the pandemic is worry about the many problems that people may face, including the impacts of new variants, the extent of protection of vaccines, whether others in one’s environment are infectious, and the possibility of financial insecurity as governments and companies face economic challenges. This situation results in people needing strategies to deal with the tendency to repetitively think about negative possibilities that may harm them or ruminate on potential threats to their health that they may have avoided. There are a range of evidence-based methods to manage worry, including mindfulness, worry time that compartmentalizes the amount of time one devotes to thinking key worries, and distraction onto more adaptive behaviors (Newman et al., 2013).
Worry among Latinx college students: relations to anxious arousal, social anxiety, general depression, and insomnia
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2021
Michael J. Zvolensky, Brooke Y. Kauffman, Daniel Bogiaizian, Andres G. Viana, Jafar Bakhshaie, Natalia Peraza
To better understand the nature of emotional vulnerability and behavioral health problems, such as insomnia, among Latinx young adults, there is apt to be clinical utility in identifying individual-based characteristics that are related to increased risk of anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. The tendency to worry is one construct that has shown theoretical and empirical promise in terms of better understanding mental and other behavioral health problems (eg, sleep dysfunction). Worry is defined as the apprehensive expectation about future negative events.20 The tendency to worry is a dimensional construct that tends to be relative stable at the individual difference dimension.21 Worry also is distinguishable from other negative affect states and constructs, such as rumination.22,23 Research largely focused on non-Latinx Whites has found that greater levels of worry are associated with a range of psychopathological processes, including avoidance, emotional dysregulation, and interpersonal deficits.21,24 Worry is also the predominant characteristic – at heightened levels – of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).