...Alannah Richie Dr. April Nunn SP 106:100 16 November 2015 Topic: Panic Attacks Specific Purpose: To inform Central Idea: () Introduction I. Attention getter: We’ve all had nervous breakdown or feel self-conscious on some occasions, like me now while giving this speech. II. Topic/purpose: The impact of an anxiety attack is very serious. III. Credibility: IV. Audience importance: I. Preview: I will tell you more in depth about anxiety disorders, the 6 main types of anxiety disorders and their symptom. Body I. Point: What are Anxiety disorders? A. Anxiety is basically our body’s natural response to danger. It is an automatic alarm that would go off when you feel threatened and it usually occurs suddenly and without any warning. It can happen to you anywhere, anytime, and any day. B. Anxiety disorders consist of two type of symptoms: * Emotional Symptoms: if you ever had feelings like panicking, fear, uneasiness, flashbacks of traumatic experiences, have trouble concentrating, and etc. * Physical Symptoms: if you had problems sleeping, have shortness of breath, an inability to be still and calm, dry mouth, numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, pounding heart and etc. II. Point: The 6 main type of Anxiety disorders. A. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): involves a person to constantly feel worry has fears that distract you from your day-to-day activities. Shows up symptoms like insomnia, stomach upset, dread, and fatigue. B. Panic disorder: this...
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...Panic Attack Symptoms On the off chance that you are all of a sudden encountering a scene of extreme nervousness and apprehension that sets off physical responses with no clear reason, you have a scene called a fit of anxiety. Various events of this amazingly normal wellbeing issue are demonstrative of frenzy issue, which can be extremely dangerous and unnerving. Consistent reasons for alarm of going insane, showing at least a bit of kindness assault or passing on are only a few illustrations of froze musings that may upset your ordinary exercises. As indicated by the National Institute of Mental Health, around 6 million American grown-ups have been determined to have frenzy issue. With legitimate learning and discovering the right treatment, you or somebody you know who experiences this issue can conquer the indications and recapture solid living. A man with frenzy issue encounters intermittent either expected or sudden Panic Attacks and no less than one of the assaults has been trailed by one month (or more) of one or a greater amount of the accompanying: Persistent worry about the ramifications of the assault, for example, its outcomes (e.g., losing control, showing at least a bit of kindness assault, "going...
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...Anxiety at 35000 Feet Robert Clinton On September 11, 2001 something happened in the United States that changes things forever in the aviation world. There were airplanes that were deliberately crashed into mulitiple sights in the U.S. This was one of the worst terrorist attacks that the world has ever seen. Because there were aircraft used in the attack there was a huge impact on how everyone saw how to take to the skies. The vision of airliners crashing into buildings will forever be imprinted into people’s heads. None of the physiologist in the world could even prepare on how this was going to affect people and how they saw themselves flying. The psychologist have actually been involved in the aviation industry a lot even before this event. They have tried to understand what causes the anxiety in the air. What triggers the passenger to act the way they do in the air. Also trying to find out what is the best way to handle the passenger that is having the attack. Because of the attack on the U.S. a lot of the anxiety is the fear of crashing, even though the facts are that it is actually safer to fly then drive a car to the location. Anxiety in the air has a huge impact on the aviation community and has caused many flights to lad before their destination. This is one of the biggest studies for psychologist to this day. References 1. Anxiety At 35,000 Feet: An Introductive to Clinical Aviation Phycology Author: Bor, Robert Kahr, Brett Publisher: Karnac Books ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Psychological Disorders Etiology of Psychological Disorders Describe the following perspectives on the etiology of psychological disorders: |Perspective |Description of Perspective | |Biological Perspective |Biological perspective is a way of looking at psychological topcis by studying the physical | | |basis for animal and human behavior. It is one of the major perspectives in psychology, and | | |involves such things as studying the immune sytem, nervous system, and genetics. | |Learning Perspective |The views of human development which holds the changes in behavior result from experience or | | |form adaptation to the environment. | |Cognitive Factors |Something inmaterial that contributes to producing a result. | |Diathesis-Stress Model |A psychological theory that attempts to explain behavior or illness as a result of | | |predispositional vulnerability together with stress from life experiences. | |Personality Factors ...
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...Have you ever felt nervous before taking a exam, or before a interview? Did you stressed out because you needed to make a important decision, and you started to sweat and your hands started to shake? You were feeling anxious, you just didn’t know it. In that case you are getting motivated before an act but there are some people that doesn’t get motivated by anxiety. You are facing anxiety everyday, but there are some other types of anxiety that are not so harmless and their causes are different. People are different so are their feelings and disorders. Anxiety is similar to fear, the difference is that fear is a response to a real threat, and anxiety is not. It is a feeling of nervousness and worry, overreaction to something that doesn’t even...
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...Hart’s (1999) book, The Anxiety Cure, is a comprehensive work detailing the issues of stress, anxiety, and panic in adults, adolescents, and children. His goal is to help those who struggle with the after-effects of stress to find and maintain a balanced life of tranquility (p. 254). This critique explores Hart’s theoretical and theological approach, the strengths and weaknesses of this model, and this author’s plan to integrate information from the book into a personal theory of Christian counseling. Hart describes anxiety as “a disease of stress” that can result in a multitude of physical and emotional symptoms and illnesses (p. 139). They include panic and panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder, adrenaline exhaustion, and obsessive compulsive disorder (p. 9-10) Anxiety strikes the strong and leaders among us, male and female, young and old, day or night (p. 37, 42). Anxiety is a warning to change our fast-paced, adrenaline pumping, stress-filled lifestyle (p. 3, 144-145). Scientific understanding of anxiety begins in the brain where neurotransmitters send information resulting in emotional responses (p. 19-20). Hart teaches that stress robs us from “happy messengers” or neurotransmitters that keep us tranquil. Balance between happy (GABA) and sad messengers (Cortisol) is determined by levels of stress which causes a chemical imbalance allowing anxiety to dominate. Prolonged stress causes a biochemical change that can start a panic attack. Hart insists that...
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...Omidi and Zargar (2015) studied different coping techniques, specifically mindfulness-based stress reduction, which can be used to combat tension headaches. They found that mindfulness coping strategies dramatically lessen the pain for several illnesses, such as back pain, scoliosis, and tension headaches, and greatly reduce depression and anxiety (Omidi & Zargar, 2015); mindfulness-based stress reduction can also have a positive impact on overall health and sleep (Omidi & Zargar, 2015). By implementing mindfulness meditation in my everyday life, I will have a better handle on my stress and emotions, have more energy throughout the day, and receive a better quality of...
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... But, the day when I am one hundred percent confident to give a public speech is somewhere in the near future. How do I know this? Through my public speaking course this semester, I completed an anxiety survey. Although I was already aware that I have a slight fear of public communication, this self-examination revealed to me my speaking apprehension score that was labeled with a specific level of anxiety. Not only, though, was I faced with a given intensity of anxiety, I was learning things about myself that I never thought I would obtain such an insight to. Moderate: the level at which my public speaking apprehension score happened to fall. I recognized right away that I wasn’t necessarily in the higher or lower range. This assisted me in looking at the glass as half full, which happens to be an obligation if I plan to eliminate this category of anxiety from my life. As I sat and thought about my score, it hit me that I over emphasized my partial fear of publicly speaking in front of large groups of people. What I thought was going to be the end of the world was really just normal amounts of tension, stress, and anxiety that I was way too easily letting get to me. Seeing these results brought to my attention strengths that can assist my in kicking public speaking anxiety: I radiate optimism, am smart and energetic, and I have confidence with every other task I face in day-to-day situations. Confidence seems to occur naturally day, but it is only present nearly half...
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...Rachel Abbott Discuss the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. Introduction Hypnotherapists are inundated with requests from potential clients seeking treatment for stress, anxiety, phobias and habits. It is essential for a therapist to understand the individual attributes of each one as well as understanding the relationship between these disorders. An understanding of the relationship between them allows therapists to decide which type of treatment will be most accurate as well as effective. In this essay I will start by defining stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and as well as exploring their individual attributes and symptoms I will seek to discuss the link between them as well as describing how I would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. Stress and Anxiety Are stress and anxiety just two different words to describe the same experience? Quite often they are coined together into one phrase because when you experience one you usually experience the other. This is not to say that they are the same. In fact, despite both states producing similar responses, there are differences in the triggers which cause them. Our bodies are designed to respond to danger; we have an inbuilt defence mechanism known as the ‘fight or flight response’, which triggers psychological and physical changes in our bodies. The release of chemicals can give rise to very real physical symptoms such as the release...
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...fear responses with feelings of calm rather than previous associations between phobic objects/situations and fear. The two opposing emotions of anxiety and relaxation are percieved as incapable of coexisting simultaneously. Systematic desensitisation uses a progressive step by step approach to feared objects and situations and takes about a month to advance through the whole desensitisation hierarchy. Before treatment begins, a hierarchy is constructed that goes from the least to the most feared types of contact with objects/phobias. Example Snake phobics may begin treatment by looking at a picture of snakes in a sealed tank and progressively work towards actually holding one. Research Jones used SD to eradicate ‘little peter’s’ fear of white fluffy animals and objects for example rabbits and cotton wool. The rabbit was presented to the patient at closer distances each time his anxiety levels subsided to permit movement onto the next stage and Peter was rewarded with food to develop a positive association towards the rabbit. Eventually he developed affection for the rabbit which then generalised onto similar animals and objects. Flooding A behavioural therapy used to remove phobias through direct confrontation of a feared object or situation. The idea is that patients cannot make their usual avoidance responses and anxiety peaks at such high levels it cannot be maintained and therefore eventually subsides. Research Wolpe (1960) used flooding to remove a girl’s phobia...
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...general adaptation syndrome will I experience? I would think the first steps of general adaptation syndrome that I would face would be the fight or flight reaction. This would mean that my body would trigger an alarm that would tell my body to prepare to fight or flee from a threatening stressor or source of danger. 2. What emotional and cognitive effects might this stressor produce? Emotional and cognitive effects that might produce this stressor produce; anxiety, anger, and depression. As a cognitive effect; this may cause someone to have difficulty focusing on the task at hand. It might also cause difficulty remembering stuff or solving problems. I think it might cause a lot of anxiety, also. 3. If this stress continues, how might it affect my health? If this stress continues then it might affect my health greatly in many ways ranging anywhere from headaches to coronary heart diseases. I would not count out that this would probably bring on a tension headache. It could cause an anxiety attack from the anxiety levels, and that is just not a good thing. 4. How might I resolve this situation effectively to reduce my stress? Take a deep breath, count to ten, and relax. Realize that humans are bound to make mistakes, and the mistake can always be fixed. Just do the best you can at the project, ask for help from the people the assignments were already assigned to and do the best you...
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...Stress In every day modern life, the demands of work, social life, hobbies, family and friends often leaves us feeling that we cannot fore fill our commitments and nearly everyone has a situation in their lives where they are left feeling stressed. However not all stress is harmful, as stress is our body’s natural reaction to fear or change. Some levels of stress are normal. For example in the work place stress may help achieve a higher level of work when required, how many times have we been required to provide a piece of work that needs to be done in a short amount of time? The adrenaline starts pumping round your body, and you concentrate on the task in hand and when the task has been completed you feel a sense of achievement that you have completed that task. However if you are constantly put in stressful situations , where you are constantly stressed and working long hours this is where stress can be harmful. Stress can also be a learnt behaviour, often if a parent is stressed the child will pick up on the stressed behaviours of that parent often resulting in the child not being able to cope in stressful situations very well . It has been reported that 10% of the population report suffering from either chronic or constant stress. In 1999 the Roper Starch Survey, which studied 30,000 people from 30 different countries, there ages ranged between13 to 65 produced the following findings: “Women who work full-time and have children under 13 report the greatest stress worldwide ...
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...Joji Ilagan International School of Hotel and Tourism Management JIB Bldg., Leon Llido Street, General Santos City In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in English 2 The Causes and Effects of Nervous Breakdown Submitted by: Sherlove C. Segura BS – ICHEF / HAZELNUT Submitted to: Ms. Aura Lee Bonanciar English 2 March 8, 2012 Acknowledgement The researcher would like to express her sincere gratitude to her teacher Ms. Aura Lee Bonanciar for guiding and motivating her to make an effective term paper. ABSTRACT Someone is experiencing a nervous breakdown when they have reached their emotional and physical limit and are finding the pressures and stress of life too overwhelming to handle. Unlike the stressful feelings many people occasionally experience, a breakdown prevents a person from functioning as they normally would. According to the book of The Family Medical Guide to Health & Fitness Vol.1 Section 2 page 109 stated there, In coping with stress it is important to relax. Physical exercise is the out-of-doors is an important hep. The reasons people experience breakdowns are unique to their circumstances, and the symptoms that sufferers display will also vary from person to person. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
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...Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and everyday living. It is hardwired into our brain and is our bodies’ normal response to “fight or flight”, which prepares us to act in the event of danger. It also prepares us to act in uncertain situations, trouble, or feeling unprepared. It is normal to feel certain anxiousness when these situations arise. However, when everyday life events cause a person to become increasingly anxious or have panic attacks, which interfere with daily living, a person may have an anxiety disorder (Active Minds, 2015). Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental illnesses and affect 25 percent of all teens and 30 percent of all teen girls (Elements Behavioral Health). Research indicates that over the last 50-70 years the rates of anxiety among teenagers and young adults in America have been steadily increasing (Bass, 2015). This article has information on the rise in teen anxiety, statistics, and the possible causes for the rise in anxiety. Teens Now and Then It appears in nearly every research article read that teens today are experiencing greater anxiety than the teens of 20, 30, 40 years ago. In fact, rates of anxiety and depression among young adults were far lower even during the Great Depression, during WWII, the Cold War, and the 60’s and 70’s than they are for teens today (Bass, 2015). The results are almost startling and alarming. Some statistics find that five to eight times as many high school and college students meet...
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...pressures inflicted upon students cause increased stress and anxiety which can impact mental health. Although everyone has experienced the pressures of stress and anxiety at least once in their lives, many do not understand the difference between them or that there is one at all. While stress is “a response to a threat in a situation”, anxiety is the body’s reaction to that stress (“Anxiety and Disorders at School” & “Stress”). There are many different types of anxiety. The most common anxiety disorders found in teenagers and young adults follow: Generalized Anxiety Disorder is classified by the “persistent, excessive and unrealistic worry about everyday things.” Meanwhile Panic Disorder is the spontaneous panic attacks...
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