What is anxiety? What is depression? What is anger disorder? (in a nutshell...)

Past and present unwanted events can often create an increase in predictive negative thinking, and with that, many different accompanying mental and physical responses 

Repeating unhealthy thoughts creates increased sensitivity of your brain’s Stress Response System (fight/flight/freeze), and your subsequent brain/body functions 

And overworking this response system, built into each of us for survival, can have you reacting to everyday circumstances with a heightened sensitivity, an increased level of hard to control frustration or irritability, or a worrying level of apathy or lethargy

(have you ever wondered to yourself “how is it I struggle with everyday situations I was once able to cope with quite well?”)

What you practice, you get better at - be that healthy or otherwise

The unhealthy practice of negative thinking and the following negative actions leads you to towards unwanted habits and chronic disorders such as raised levels of anger (fight), anxiety (flight), and depression (freeze)

This thinking and these disorders are not created through a single stand-alone event, but through a single stand-alone event or by multiple or repeated events that are not wholly understood and dealt with, and then left unattended

Your mind (that somewhat ethereal process of thought) and the brain (the minds 'house' and physical workings) fire electrical signals and neurotransmitters that excite or inhibit bodily actions. These thoughts and predictions will be based on your current surroundings and past personal experiences, and your responses are driven to your muscles via the nervous system and hormones (body neurotransmitters) to get you running, fighting, or standing still.

But with those previously mentioned untreated experiences creating an oversensitive system, we can find ourselves reacting to circumstances in a way that is not always 'best and rational', and often more emotional. Over time, this mental/physical sensitivity, and the too many to mention symptoms related to anxiety, depression and anger, become part of every day life. Overly reactive, overly aggressive, not taking steps forward.

Without understanding, or approaching the concerns with the aim of creating change, you may even start to tell yourself "this is who I am"

But this is NOT who you are.

Anxiety does not define you as a person.

Depression does not define you as a person.

Anger does not define you as a person.

These disorders can be moved on from, left behind in the past, and your stress response system can return to (dare I say it), a ‘new normal’.

A change in thinking, changes outcomes.

Change Your Outcome.

If you would like to know more about any of the disorders or any physical/mental symptoms associated with these concerns, please do get in touch with me via Linked In message, or on [email protected]

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