pathological anxiety
Anxiety is a psychological state, where the prevailing uncertainty, grief, distress characterized by insecurity or feeling that can not achieve your goals. Anxiety also has a positive side as it is the anxiety that enables you to fight or flight. Are our basic, instinctive reactions. Anxiety in a suitable level is good. It is the anxiety that makes you study for a test. It is the anxiety that makes you look both ways to cross a street. No anxiety you would not wear adequate clothing to seek employment for example, because you consider that employment is secured and would not need any effort.
Anxiety in a suitable level motivates you to do good things for yourself. The problem is when anxiety and appear at the wrong time in the wrong quantity. Anxiety too paralyzed because catching brain CFO for example, in full presentation accounts. Anxiety lock the legs of the players in the middle of the game. What do you want, your professional success, social or financial success will come crashing down when anxiety is high.
Often anxiety signals are perceived in the body: The heart races, the hand shakes, sweat running down his face and hands, gives stomach pain, diarrhea can hasten up. Some can not breathe right. Others think it will pass. That leaves three options: one can withdraw, try to stay quietly in a corner and do nothing, or may become aggressive and poor who are nearby, or the person ends up with depression feel incompetent. When we are anxious we tend to look for evidence that often do not exist and so we ended up distorting reality, we imagine that we take risks such as suffering injuries, asphyxia, getting deathly ill, we were attacked by other people or animals feel pain or disgust, suffer misfortune (loss or deprivation) or being socially rejected and excluded.
To the anxious five minutes is an eternity, waiting for something impossible. The eager think very fast, but loses quality in their perceptions and just judging wrongly environmental information. For example, a look been bent by a colleague is already considered as a sentence. This is called "automatic thoughts" - the more anxious one is more distorted automatic thoughts she will. That's why we say that anxiety is the "relative" next of fear, worry and forecast negativa.Os anxious thoughts tend to be total failure, "I am unable ... will not work ... everybody will laugh at me ... I will look ridiculous! "
The anxious anticipates situations and see stuttering, imagine disasters, all a horror film goes through your mind that makes you believe you will pass by a big shame in front of everyone.
But what does not realize is that anxious to wonder everything that can go wrong can end backfire, as this creates a psychological state in which such the person puts everything to lose. This is autoboicote as this eager begins to "prove" to himself that is incompetent, begins to remember old situations that "prove" that can not speak in front of people, begins to remember for example the kindergarten when he vexation in front of the whole room. And so he is placed in a situation where it may become psychologically predisposed to fail, and this time concludes: "You see ... I've been failing since childhood ... I am not going to risk it here .... I will not make the presentation, I'll put someone else in my place. "
This person needs psychological help.
Drajosiane Odila