Anxiety
Form
62% of Americans experience anxiety.
School/work, stress, etc can cause anxiety.
Anxiety started in the 1980s.
People such as Kourtney Kardashian struggle with anxiety.
Anxiety may start around the ages of 5-7 years old, but depending on what caused the anxiety.
About 23.4% of women and 14.3% of men have anxiety.
Function
Trigger, negative thoughts, anxiety, believing negative thoughts, and the cycle continues.
The amygdala is a big part of anxiety.
You can have panic attacks, depression, headaches, and etc when you have anxiety.
Change
Between 2007-2012 anxiety has gone up by 20%.
Students agreed that high expectations can lead to anxiety. In 1985 18% agreed, 28% in 2000, and in 2016 41%.
Anxiety can get worse everyday just by doing daily activities.
Causation
We should be talking about anxiety more because if we make it normal to talk about people who struggle with anxiety can speak up about their problems.
Anxiety can affect relationships, self-confidence, and daily tasks at school/work.
Anxiety is most common in teenagers because of their hormones.
There are many types of anxiety such as GAD, social phobia, specific phobias, OCD, PTSD, panic disorder, etc. But the type you have really just depends on what is going on in your life.
Anxiety takes over the brain because it breaks the connection between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
Anxiety can also cause depression, trouble sleeping, social isolation, headaches, etc.
Connection
COVID-19 has affected anxiety a lot because of all the stress that it's giving us.
In 2020, the Manitoba government made a counselling program to help the people who have struggled with anxiety due to COVID-19.
Anxiety can cause depression. Both anxiety and depression are similar because stress is one of the main reasons that causes them.
It has impacted the social life because with all the stress that anxiety gives us, people start avoiding a lot of things.
Perspective
Some celebrities such as Shawn Mendes and Dwayne Johnson say that anxiety can be different for everyone and your not alone even if you think you are.
It really depends on the person if they can or can't tell if someone's feeling anxious. Someone might realize that you are anxious if they also have experience with anxiety. This is because it's easy for them to recognize the signs of anxiety.
You can be anxious while others don't know because it could just be all in your head.
It can be hard for some people to understand anxiety because they think "Your just nervous." But for some people it can be more than "Just nervous." This is because some of us might have just a bit of anxiety but then other people can have more serious anxiety.