Anxiety is UNCOMFORTABLE!!!

If you’ve ever wondered why you feel so anxious, you’re in the right place!

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Anxiety is often a misapplied term. This makes it difficult to differentiate between regular experiences of feeling anxiety, and experiencing the mental health condition of any Anxiety or Anxiety-related conditions.

If you are concerned or worried that you may have an Anxiety condition or an Anxiety-related condition, talk to a local therapist in your area. They will help you clarify whatever is going on for you. 

Regardless if you are experiencing feelings of anxiety or are symptomatic of some other condition, we know that anxiety does not feel really comfortable, right? 

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WHAT ANXIETY DOES FOR YOU

Anxiety tells us to:

• wake up

• pay attention

• stay alert

• Something different going on here 

Maybe it's a good difference? Maybe not.

You get to assess and apply meaning to that situation to help you get through that moment.

YOU MAY BE EXPERIENCING ANXIETY IF

Here are a few common body signals of anxiety:

• Trouble concentrating: you just keep thinking about it, or the thing that is making you worried or anxious just keeps circling

• Feeling restless

• trouble sleeping

• Rapid breathing, or shortness of breath

• Talking really fast

• Headaches

• Stomachaches

Everybody experiences feelings of anxiety differently.

It's really important to hone into how your body experiences anxiety, to know when and what it's trying to tell you. 

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Here is how you can hone into how your body experiences anxiety:

• Step 1: FIND A QUIET PLACE

• Step 2: THINK ABOUT THE LAST TIME YOU FELT ANXIOUS

• Step 3: WHERE IN YOUR BODY DO YOU FEEL MOST UNCOMFORTABLE

Notice where your body is speaking to you loudest at that moment, and remember what that’s like.

That's your body’s signals that you're feeling anxious.

WHEN ANXIETY BECOMES PROBLEMATIC

Even though anxiety is always trying to be helpful and useful it can sometimes be quite problematic.

Some areas to pay attention to how it’s impacting you are:

• social relationships

• academic or work performance

• keeping you from doing things you once loved and enjoyed

• worse anxiety states, like panic attacks

• thoughts or urges to harm yourself

• even potentially make you consider dying by suicide

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