Anxiety
When you are struggling with symptoms of anxiety, we encourage you to reach out to close friends and family as well as seek therapy with Transformative Counseling & Wellness. You CAN find support during this challenging time.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is characterized by excessive and consistent worry about various things. Individuals struggling with anxiety may worry about the worst case scenario or a number of different things such as finances, health, work, relationships, family, the past and the future as well as other concerns.
According to Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population, in any given year. Women are twice as likely to be affected. The disorder comes on gradually and can begin across the life cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age.
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Anxiety is diagnosed when a person finds it difficult to control the excessive worry on more days than not for at least six months and has three or more symptoms.
Feeling nervous, irritable, or on edge
Having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom
Having an increased heart rate
Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation), sweating, and/or trembling
Feeling weak or tired
Difficulty concentrating
Having trouble sleeping
Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems
*Source: Anxiety and Depression Association of America - www.adaa.org
