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Chapter One: Mental Health
Part 7: Anxiety and mental health

Anxiety is an emotion that is different from stress! Stress and anxiety are both feelings. Both feel stress. But stress is a stress that is being created. But anxiety and mental health are closely related, and it is a stress or a concern about the future or the past.

The difference between anxiety and stress

We will try to explain these two cases with an example. Imagine I’m in a store right now and I’m worried about getting infected with the Corona virus by touching it somewhere. Stress and this worry that I have in my current situation is called stress. This stress prevents me from touching everywhere and makes me take more care of myself.

But anxiety is like sitting at home worrying about my children’s future. I am sitting at home and I am worried about the next few days that I want to go to the store. Do not get the Corona virus in the future when I leave home and pass it on to family members. Because my concern is about the future or the past, we call this kind of stress and anxiety.

Are Anxiety and Stress Useful?

We all need some degree of anxiety and stress. It actually makes us grow. It makes us take more care of ourselves. So some anxiety and stress is very useful for us.

For example, if I am worried and anxious about my children’s future, it will make me more aware. I read a few books on dealing with teenagers or even take a few courses. I try to plan better for my children’s future. In fact, these abilities and anxieties cause me to move and strive inside. It makes me plan and it is very useful for my growth and life.

You think you are worried about your exam tomorrow. Instead of trying to recover, they wallow in their sadness and thus, experience more failure. So a series of anxieties and stresses are very useful, and now that we are facing the threat of getting the Corona virus, the stress of facing this virus helps us to maintain our health more than before. It makes me stay away from danger and pay more attention to my health.

So as long as the presence of anxiety and stress moves us and makes me plan, the presence of anxiety and stress is also very useful.

Anxiety and mental health and its destructive effects

Sometimes people experience so much stress that they miss their daily routine and do not move. They can not communicate well with others. They do not even have a proper diet, and psychologists say that these people have suffered from anxiety or stress disorders. In these people, the level of stress has increased and they must be treated.

Where should we feel threatened?

In fact, we have to keep in mind that wherever anxiety and stress make me move and plan in life, it is absolutely right. But wherever my anxiety and stress prevent me from progressing and moving forward, it is completely wrong and we need to look into it.

Pay special attention to anxiety and mental health

Stress and anxiety when they occur cause a series of psychological, physical and behavioral symptoms. Some people have all of these symptoms, while others have one or two. Even in some of these symptoms it appears very much and in others it is very mild. These symptoms depend on individual differences and physiological differences in people’s bodies and living conditions.

Physical symptoms of anxiety and stress

These symptoms are usually accompanied by excessive sweating, along with contraction and expansion of the body’s muscles. They are also called muscle cramps. It is usually accompanied by nausea, headache, etc.

Psychological symptoms of anxiety usually include not making good and appropriate decisions so that people are hesitant in their decisions. They lose their focus. When they want to do something, disturbing thoughts prevent them from concentrating. They can not succeed in their work.

People with anxiety often experience memory loss. They always feel tired, and even if they sleep for long hours, they still feel tired. Usually, people who are anxious are always psychologically anxious, and even if something special does not happen, and even if they seem to want to do something good and pleasant, they do it with anxiety.

In fact, such people welcome anxiety and always create negative thoughts for themselves in advance.

Behavioral symptoms of anxiety and stress

It usually involves aggression. People usually refuse to enter gatherings. Their sexual orientation varies as sexual desire increases in young people and decreases in middle-aged people. They usually have a lot of mental distractions and such people usually do things to invite themselves to calm down. Unfortunately, one of these activities is drug addiction, which is especially common among anxious young people. We must be careful not to lose our composure in any way.

Anxiety and mental health solutions

Here are some tips to help you reduce your anxiety and stress in life. But we have to make a point here. If your anxiety and stress have been interfering with your sleep, diet, and behavior for several weeks, you should see a specialist. We are talking here for those who want to manage the same amount of anxiety and small stresses.

The first solution: talk and express stress

One of these beautiful ways is to talk and express stress. By talking to ourselves about our anxieties and stresses. The first step is to pay attention to how we feel and accept that we are anxious. Then, let’s create solutions in this regard. So that we can review the cause of this stress and anxiety. Then decide what we can do to reduce them.

So the first step is to stand, pay attention, and accept this negative feeling. Even if we can go in front of the mirror and talk to ourselves for a long time, we know that this will be very effective in reducing our anxiety and mental health.

We can even talk about our anxiety with our loved ones, parents, or spouse, and this is how I can help reduce my anxiety and stress levels with the help of others.

The second solution: writing

Another beautiful, old-fashioned way to reduce your anxiety and stress is to write. I suggest you try this. Writing allows you to manage your mind. And when our minds are focused, it can better relieve anxiety and stress.

It is focusing on writing that eliminates mental distractions and makes it easier for you to overcome your anxiety. Because your mind is focused and it divides what you have written, it will then find a relative calm. We have to tear up the paper and throw it away when we write down our anxieties. Write down and keep anxiety and mental health solutions.

In fact, we can use writing techniques to write down words that we can never say to others. When we write them down, we actually get them out of our minds in a physical way. And finally, we will reduce our mental distractions.

Solution 3: Give yourself a chance

Another way to overcome anxiety is to give yourself a chance and have a schedule for yourself. Let’s say to ourselves that after this specific time, our problems will be solved in the future. In fact, we should pay attention to them depending on the type and degree of our anxiety. Those who are constantly escaping their stress and anxiety will suffer more.

So we should try not to forget to take time to relieve our anxiety on our own and let these negative feelings show us and we pay attention to them and the more we value our anxieties and stresses, the more they We will go farther and farther.

Solution 4: Exercise and mobility

Another way to relieve anxiety and mental health that can help us is to use exercise and mobility. Taking a deep breath and even drinking a glass of water can help us control our anxiety.

People have different functions in managing and controlling their anxiety and stress according to their physical characteristics and environmental conditions.

For example, some people listen to music, eat and drink, walk, sleep, and actually function differently to control their anxiety. If I know how to control myself, it will be very important.

Let’s seek to solve the problem

A very important issue to consider is that these steps may temporarily calm me down. It temporarily reduces my anxiety and stress. But my anxiety is still there because there is still a cause for them. So as I manage and reduce my anxiety and mental health, I have to look for it and find a solution when I find the cause.

Anxiety and stress factors

Studies have shown that various factors cause anxiety and stress in people. We all have issues in life that will cause stress and anxiety.

Death of loved ones

One of these factors can be the death of loved ones. I know many people who, for example, were very dependent on their grandfather, and when that loved one is lost, this person inadvertently suffers a lot of pressure and stress. This condition causes the person to be out of control and does not even seek treatment. It is these stresses that persist and lead to severe anxiety, and these stresses can also lead to severe and worse disorders.

We must be aware that if this happens to any of us, God forbid, we must know that we must relieve our nervous and psychological pressures and stresses. And lest these pressures persist and turn into anxiety and create more problems for us.

Fear of death

Of course, among middle-aged people, the fear of death can cause a lot of stress in their lives, and the fear of death is something that can be relieved by talking about it, and one can talk about it. Relax.

Separation of parents

Another factor that can cause stress and anxiety in people will be parental separation. This can cause many problems for children.

special diseases

One of the other factors that can cause stress and anxiety is certain diseases. Other things like marriage that seem sweet. But naturally, it can cause stress and anxiety for people. Our suggestion is that instead of anxiety and stress related to marriage, they should have a goal in relation to pre- and post-marriage issues and manage such anxieties.

Work and employment

Another thing that makes people anxious and stressed is the subject of work. These anxieties are usually seen before and during work. Pregnancy is another factor that can make a person anxious.

The final word

Finally, we must point out that the most important thing that has been mentioned is the issue of change, and any kind of change will inadvertently cause stress and anxiety. These changes can include changing jobs, changing schools, relocating, and even migrating, which can put a lot of stress on a person.

We need to know that there are many factors that can cause us stress and anxiety. We said at the beginning of our talk that some of it is normal. We need to know how to manage the same small amount so that we can move in the direction of growth. People will have different managements according to their differences. We need to know that we always have the root cause of stress and anxiety.

Good luck to all of you dear friends.