Reclaim Your Power: Eliminate Anxiety and Prevent Anxiety Attacks: “A therapeutic approach to gaining mental serenity utilizing practical strategies”

By Harper Croom

A person who has neither experienced anxiety related symptoms nor been diagnosed with a stressed related mental disorder likely, will tell you that stress is an everyday part of life, and that it doesn't have to consume you. While that is true, it doesn’t help to address the issue at hand. Anxiety and stress can and will continue to cause mental anguish if not properly confronted. Such a person does not know that, anxiety and stress does overinfluence how those of us who live with it experience life. This is due to its negative impact on our thinking. Everything from stepping out of our front door to walking into a grocery store could potentially trigger feelings of excessive stress and anxiety. This book was written by a someone who has been diagnosed with and overcome generalized anxiety and stress related disorders. I have put this book together to give you practical simple strategies for managing your stress and overcoming anxiety. If you are struggling with excessive worry, restlessness, feeling keyed up, on edge, easily fatigued having difficulty concentrating and or having muscle tension and sleep disturbances do yourself a favor and apply the strategies discussed in this book. This could completely change how you live your life for the better! If you truly want to be at peace and to live without anxiety, then this book is for you.

 

The purpose of this book is clear:

You'll learn how to recognize and avoid anxiety.

You'll get step-by-step strategies on how to navigate anxiety provoking situations.

We’ll explore counterproductive behaviors that increase anxiety related symptoms.

We will explore various traditional and nontraditional strategies for releasing anxiety and stress.

You'll learn to alter learned behaviors and reduce negative thinking to reduce anxiety.

 

Are you ready to kick anxiety to curb? Embrace a new and serene version of yourself. The time is now, click the buy now button at the top of this page and take control of your mind!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jan 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9783748727002

Book preview

TABLE CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

WHY ARE WE SO STRESSED OUT?

ELIMINATE BEHAVIORS THAT FUEL STRESS

NAME YOUR BURDEN

QUIZ TIME

ANXIETY AND PANICK ATTACK

COPING WITH ANXIETY AND PANICK

SELF SOOTHING TECHNIQUES: GUIDED IMAGERY

SELF SOOTHING TECHNIQUE: MUSIC

SELF SOOTHING TECHNIQUE: SELF-HYPNOSIS

MANAGING STRESSORS

STRESS MANAGEMENT CONTINUED

WIN THE BATTLE AGAINST STRESS

JUST SAY NO!

SELF-CARE

RECHARGE AT WORK

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

It seems like we  hear it all the time from nearly everyone you know – I’m SO stressed out! Pressures abound in this world today. Those pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often we are ill-equipped to deal with those negative stressors that contribute to anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed. The scientific research on current trends in the diagnosis of anxiety and stress related disorders confirm that reports of anxiety and stress related symptoms are increasing. Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental disorders, affecting nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (Kessler RC, Chiu WT, Delmer O, Merikangas KR, Walters EE Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005 Jun; 62(6):617-27.2005).

Anxiety and stress is not specific to any certain age group as older adults are also plagued with anxiety and stress related disfunctions. Epidemiologic data suggest that approximately one in ten older adults has an anxiety disorder (Beekman et al., 1998). Similarly, women disproportionately struggle with anxiety and stress related symptoms at almost twice the rate that men do. Women have consistently higher prevalence rates of anxiety disorders (McLean, C. P., Asnaani, A., Litz, B. T., & Hofmann, S. G. 2011). With anxiety oftentimes comes stress. Likewise, excessive worry is a characteristic symptom of anxiety according to the Diagnostic and Statistical manual, fifth addition (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Stress can have a detrimental impact on our mental and physical health as it can aggravate many pathological conditions. Many studies have been conducted on the correlation between stress and its impact on the body. Such studies have shown that stress mediators are able to pass through the blood-brain barrier and effect the immune system (Khansari et al., 1990[50]). Any internal or external stimuli that triggers a biological response could be considered a stress. With this implication one may wonder how to manage anxiety and stress related symptoms.

However how we respond to negative stressors and anxiety provoking situations is what most contributes to maintaining our health and well-being. Pressures occur throughout life and those pressures cause stress. One must accept that stress will never completely absent from our life, and this is not a bad thing. There is both positive and negative stressors. A positive stressor for instance would be the emotions associated with gaining a reward such as a promotion at work and the positive stress that comes with such a transition such as adjusting your spending budget and altering your schedule for more vacation time. However, it is negative stressors that one must learn coping techniques to overcome.

I have suffered from anxiety disorders caused by excessive worry and stress since adolescents and have learned to cope with those symptoms. While what has worked for me may not work the same for you, I hope that you are able to take some of my own experiences and combined them with advice from experts. My goal is to provide you with as many tools that I am able so that you will have a resource to refer to when working through stress and anxiety. Additionally, I have provided instruction on various ways to stop debilitating anxiety and panic attacks in the moment. Through my own struggle with anxiety disorder and difficulty managing stress I have learned many coping strategies. It is my hope that by sharing them they may help you, so let’s look at how to eliminate stress and anxiety!

WHY ARE WE SO STRESSED OUT?

 We are living in very trying times and the challenges that come with growing up and navigating life will not become easier. It is you who must become comfortable with managing them. Sometimes life can seem terribly painful and unfair, yet somehow, we manage to struggle on, day after day, hoping and praying that things will soon get better.

However, day by day the world is becoming a more uncertain place to live in. Nothing seems safe anymore. Millions of people living paycheck to paycheck drawing in debt and depression. Many are losing their jobs, their homes, their health and sometimes even their sanity. Worry, depression and anxiety seem to have become a way of life for way too many people.

The constant stress and uncertainties of living in the 21st century have certainly taken their toll, and as a result many of us seem to live a life of constant fear and worry. When the terrorist attacks happened on September 11, this constant stress and worry seemed to just be magnified. Proximity isn’t a protective fact as we are experiencing vicarious stress just by turning on the morning, evening or nightly news. If we turn on the news, radio or your cell phone and we