Things only people with anxiety understand
Everyone at some time in their life has felt anxiety, being an emotional reaction to a possible danger or threat, for example: to an exam, a job interview, a public exposure, after a breakup or the loss of a loved one.
When it occurs for no apparent reason, that’s when anxiety starts to worry us. People may experience permanent distress that they cannot get rid of, taking control of their life in a way that prevents them from carrying out their daily activities.
Many people suffer from it in silence, affecting their lives and relationships. Anxiety involves many things that only the sufferer knows and that other people usually do not understand.
In this article, we’ll show you the most unknown aspects of people suffering from anxiety .
1. People with anxiety are not crazy
Most of the time, people with anxiety are thought to be crazy, because they can behave negatively towards others and sometimes their actions can be incomprehensible to you. Because of this they do not know who to turn to and certainly people with anxiety do not know why they suffer.
That is why a person with anxiety needs compassion, someone who can listen without judging, nor reproaching, much less criticizing. It is enough to let them know that we are by their side unconditionally, even if we do not understand what they are suffering and living. This can make a difference and will help you greatly in your treatment.
2. They feel trapped by anxiety and cannot escape
People have not chosen to suffer from anxiety, this only arises from a series of factors that harass and corner him feeling in this state that he cannot escape as if he were a maze without an exit. Nothing frees them, they don’t know how to do it and no matter how hard they try, they experience it again.
The solution is to find the right help to be able to face what causes the anxiety and thus manage it.
3. Even the simplest tasks can make her desperate
When anxiety is pathological, it steals energy and sometimes the simplest things can overwhelm the person, as they don’t know where to start or they simply become paralyzed by the belief that things will go wrong.
The best option in this case is not to push, or say “relax” or “calm down” or try to minimize the problem, but to give him the right support so that he can overcome it.
4. Cannot explain what they are feeling because of anxiety
The person who lives with anxiety finds it difficult to express in words what he feels. However, this does not mean that their concerns and feelings are any less real. In fact, the tendency to minimize their condition causes more harm than good. The person with anxiety does not need someone to tell him or her that what he or she is feeling is not real, but someone to support and listen.
5. Anxiety attacks can occur unexpectedly
People with anxiety often have panic attacks, they can feel their heart racing, they find it hard to breathe and their greatest fear is dying. These are intense symptoms that manage to trap the person who suffers it, disconnecting him from reality, even knowing that everything is in his mind and that it is unreal, this is not enough to stop the attack.
In these cases, it is important to understand the person and to make him/her focus on another reality other than fear, to practice his/her breathing and to make him/her see that nothing bad will happen to him/her.
6. They care about the smallest things, but they can’t help it
People with anxiety can worry about the smallest detail even though for most they are insignificant. This tends to happen because they anticipate events and always anticipate the worst that may happen. Even though they are aware of it, they cannot help it. Therefore, the best thing we can do is to help them take the first step, without recrimination.
7. Your fears are real and can be extreme
The fears felt by anxious people may seem unbelievable to us, but not sharing these same concerns does not mean that they are not real to the person suffering from them. These fears are real in their minds and they cannot control them.
If we think that we cannot control a situation or that we will not get out of it, that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The most important thing is to face it with specialized help and learn from the anxiety so that we know how to handle it and that it is not the one that controls us.