Anxiety Coping Methods

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Though it's sometimes referred to as a fleeting condition, the specific term anxiety refers to a lingering condition. It's certainly true that a person can be temporarily anxious about some upcoming event or other, but anxiety can and does persist over an extensive period of time. Anxiety as a chronic disorder in fact is exceptionally common, trailing only depression among persistent psychological problems.

Anxiety is actually a broad term that can potentially describe a series of conditions. There is certainly overlap between anxious conditions in terms of symptoms and even treatment. Essentially, anxiety as a chronic condition involves being in an agitated state. For some anxious conditions, this agitation is situation specific; while other anxious states, especially generalized anxiety disorder, involve near constant agitation.

All people have been in an agitated state at one point or another. It's an uncomfortable way of being, to say the least. The thought of being in a constant state of agitation can provide insight into how people with anxious conditions go through their lives. As a means of avoiding the pain and discomfort chronic anxiety brings, people come up with different means of coping. Self-medication is a common response in a person with an anxious condition. This self-medication can take obvious forms, such as intaking alcohol or drugs that have a depressant effect.

Eating is another typical form of self-medicating anxiety, and other emotional difficulties as well. Certain types of foods especially seem to be consumed during anxious states. Sometimes referred to as comfort eating, these foods are often sweet and / or high calorie. The logic behind consuming high sugar, high calorie foods during anxiety or other distress is likely the immediate sense of physical satisfaction these foods provide. The problem with this coping strategy obviously is that these kinds of foods, while possibly temporarily easing anxiety, can physically damage the body over the long term.

Avoidance is another not uncommon strategy for coping with anxiety. In essence, people avoid those situations that cause an anxious response. When the anxiety-causing stimulus is quite common or very broad, however, avoidance as a coping method can become especially problematic, and can alter the way a person goes through life in a dramatic way. The good news is methods for overcoming anxiety, that don't disrupt or damage one's outlook, are readily available. Because anxiety is a quite common condition, effective and safe treatment options are generally not difficult to find.

Article Source: http://www.healthandwellnesscentral.com

Zinn Jeremiah is an online author. Find help for anxiety by visiting anxiety help or anxiety treatment.

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