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Prior to the introduction of the concept "stress" in the psychological sense c. 1955, [102] [103] people already identified a range of more nuanced ideas to describe and confront such emotions as worry, grief, concern, [104] obsession, fear, annoyance, anxiety, distress, suffering and passion. [105]
Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. [1] [2] [3] Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. [4]
Anxiety disorders affect nearly 30% of adults at some point in their lives, with an estimated 4% of the global population currently experiencing an anxiety disorder. However, anxiety disorders are treatable, and a number of effective treatments are available. [11] Most people are able to lead normal, productive lives with some form of treatment ...
“Humming activates the parasympathetic nervous system and can slow down your stress response, so that is a unique thing that is easy to incorporate to manage the symptoms of anxiety while you ...
To manage stress and anxiety, psychologists say feeling calmer is a matter of something you likely take for granted: your breath. Breathing has a "surprisingly broad" impact on the brain and body ...
Is it a panic attack or anxiety attack? It’s important to know that they aren’t actually the same.
Rumination and worry overlap in their relationships to anxiety and depression, although some studies do indicate specificity of rumination to depression and worry to anxiety. Rumination has been found to predict changes in both depression and anxiety symptoms and individuals with major depression have been reported to engage in levels of worry ...
Perseverative cognition is involved with a “stress-disease link". [1] Further, it is the thinking about the stress, or rather the obsessing over it, that establishes a link between stress and disease. Perseverative cognition also focuses on the effects that worrying over anticipated events have on the physical body and mind. [2]