For a while now, we have all been going through a process we have never experienced before, full of uncertainties and dangers. Unfortunately, we do not have any tools in our repertoire on how to deal with an epidemic that threatens human life, neither individually nor socially.
In addition to an epidemic disease, changes that make their effects felt sharply and suddenly in our lives, uncertainties about the future, and concerns about life itself and how it will continue are turning into burdens on all of us these days.
While we had more strength to carry this burden at the beginning of the process, this package begins to weigh more on us with each passing day. For this reason, some of us put down that package and start going out with the need to take a breather, ignoring the risks. Some of us are in a constant struggle with anxiety, which increases day by day.
Adequate amounts of anxiety have a protective effect and are actually a very functional emotion. Thanks to your anxiety, you take precautions and act to protect yourself. However, as anxiety increases and passes a certain limit, that is, as it begins to disrupt the daily flow, it loses its protective function and causes your brain to be constantly triggered and overstimulated.
An overstimulated brain means an overstimulated, tense body. A body in which blood pressure is high and heartbeat is high for much longer than normal, creates a vicious circle after a while, turning into a home where the anxiety that causes all these can feed and grow. This vicious circle is very likely to cause problems in terms of both physical and mental health in the long term.
Therefore, when we work with anxiety, we always include the body in our work. Considering that our body is the home of all our emotions, a good start would be to realize where each emotion is located and what effects it causes. For this, we need to pay attention to our body. This situation, which may seem difficult at first, can be improved with exercise. Afterwards, looking for various ways to calm our own body and calm an overstimulated brain are tools that can help us cope with anxiety.
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REMEMBER: If you have a level of anxiety that is difficult to manage on your own and disrupts your daily functioning, you can proceed by getting professional support.
In addition, sometimes the roots of an anxiety we experience today may date back to ancient times. A traumatic experience or past challenging experiences that you have never connected with can form the basis for our current concerns. Based on this, working on today's anxiety with past experiences in therapy is one of the healthiest ways to regulate dysfunctional anxiety. After all, knowing where anxiety comes from is the first step to knowing where to put it.
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