Often times anxiety is caused by a medical condition. "Certain medicines have side effects that can cause or make anxiety worse" (HealthWise Staff). Medications for blood pressure‚ thyroid‚ or asthma are known as only some to possibly cause anxiety symptoms. There could also be a problem with your brain chemistry. With Generalized Anxiety Disorder‚ some patients were found to have abnormal neurotransmitter levels in their brains which were causing the excessive anxiety. "When neurotransmitters are
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CHAPTER 1 STRESS INTRODUCTION Stress is a common thing in everyone’s life. It is always associated with the happiest movement of life or the dangerous movement of life. Stress‚ stress‚ stress….. Is a common and universal phenomenon for everyone? Stress accumulation is a common problem and you are very difficult to manage it due to your lifestyle and attitude. In most of time‚ the term ‘Stress’ use to express their negative experience that happened in everyone’s life. It either distress
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Depression appears at least twice as often in women as in men. It afflicts one women in ten at any given time; and as many as one women in three may become clinically depressed at some point during her lifetime‚ in contrast to about one man in nine. Women tend to interpret the world in terms of personal relationships‚ whereas men rely more on abstract rules and laws. From an early age women generally pursue to cultivate and maintain their connections with others‚ but their lifelong chase for affinity
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“age of stress”‚ or “age of anxiety”‚ while stress and anxiety are universal human experiences‚ intrinsic to the human condition‚ the nature of the specific environmental stimuli evoking stress and anxiety emotions has changed remarkably over the year. (Gaudry. E and Spielberger‚ C.D‚1971:04). Definition of anxiety: Every one sometimes experiences anxiety in one form or another and in varying degrees. It involves a pattern of physiological and psychological reactions like feeling of stress and emotions
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There are several different types of abuse and each type affects people differently. There is child abuse and spousal abuse‚ but there is also physcial and mental abuse. This paper will go over each type of abuse‚ how the abuse affects the person‚ how people can recover from abuse‚ and just some general information To start off I will discuss spousal abuse and its affect on people. Surveys in the US and Canada have shown each year about 12 percent of all spouses push‚ grab‚ shove or slap their
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On the topic of emotional abuse‚ psychological abuse and emotional abuse aren’t that different since by their definitions‚ they are similar. For example‚ psychological abuse is the sustained and repetitive behaviour which damages the developmental potential of crucially important mental faculties and mental processes of a child. On the other hand‚ as mentioned earlier‚ emotional abuse refers to a repeated action that negatively affects a child’s development‚ emotions‚ and how a child sees oneself
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POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER 2 Chapter I Introduction Throughout the course of history‚ soldiers exposed to the horrors of war have been emotionally traumatized by what they saw or did. The emotional damage could be extensive and often life altering to these warriors who saw first-hand what mankind was capable of during an armed conflict. It is only in the past few decades that healthcare professionals began to assist these men and women and focused on the issues surrounding
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Introduction to the Theme of Love and Forgiveness To talk about “love and forgiveness” in literature is to enter into unstudied territory. Unlike former “Let’s Talk About It” topics‚ such as “Latino Literature in the U.S.” or “Jewish Literature‚” this theme has not given rise to a body of critical writing or to papers at literary conferences. It is not a subject of literary studies. If you wanted to read about it‚ you would go to theological or psychological literature‚ not to literary criticism
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What is Anxiety? Anxiety is one of the most fundamental emotions shared by all species of animals. When confronted with danger‚ the fight or flight response of the sympathetic nervous system is triggered so that we are prepared to react and protect ourselves. Without anxiety and its physiological manifestations‚ such as hypersensitivity to environment and enhanced blood supply to leg muscles‚ the likelihood of harm or disaster in threatening situations would undoubtedly dramatically increase. A
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Anxiety There are lots of things in life that can make us feel anxious. Starting a new job‚ going into a new social situation or taking your driving test are just a few examples. Anxiety‚ which can feel like a mixture of uncertainty‚ fear and unease‚ is something everyone experiences. It might temporarily affect our sleep patterns‚ our appetite or our ability to concentrate‚ but usually we find ways of managing our feelings and they pass in time. Sometimes the causes of people’s anxiety can be
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