Anxiety is kind of like money. It’s a good servant but a terrible master.
GenuLines is here to help you take charge when anxious moments crop up.
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Don’t Let Anxiety Weigh You Down
Your quality of life takes a bit of a hit when anxiety is the order of your day. It puts your body on high alert.
You feel like you’re in danger, and that spikes your heart rate and gives you more stress and sweaty palms. Now, anxiety isn’t all bad.
It can motivate you, say, for a test or an interview. But in the workaday world, it’s pretty much useless.
If you think about them you could get anxious about things that are out of your control. The result is a terrible feeling that can cause you to lose sleep. That loss of sleep often turns into a bad day. Too many of those and you start to see the effects on your body.
Upping the stakes
During times of unusual stress, our body releases a hormone called Cortisol. This, in turn, has been linked to weight gain.
When you’re stressed out you might reach for comfort foods. Things like chocolate or salty snacks.
Those will cause you to pack on the pounds.
Now, combine that with the added stress and lack of sleep and you risk heart disease. It takes some time for the physical debilitation to manifest itself.
But the mental effects of anxiety are immediate. A severe case can make each day a grind.
You constantly seem stressed out and fearful.
As anxiety starts to spiral out of control, you may come up with coping mechanisms. For instance, you might start avoiding people and stressful situations.
You find yourself only able to grocery shop during off-hours. Or you won’t feel like leaving the house at all.
Your high anxiety can morph into depression.
It gets hard to find the energy to get out of bed in the morning and face life. Operating on high alert and pumped full of adrenalin is exhausting.
Staying in bed seems like a much better alternative.
If you find your anxiety is weighing your life down get professional help. Anxiety can be debilitating.
But there’s help to be had and plenty of tools that can help you get back to where you want to be.
JohnK 2-5-2020
Overheard: “My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” ~Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself
Article Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash
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