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Anxiety depression according to the CDC, is two major causes of illness, and death and dying in the United States, and is associated with reduced quality of life , including limited social functioning, and excess disability.
Persons with current depression and a lifetime diagnosis of depression or anxiety were significantly more likely than persons without these conditions to have cardio-vascualar disease, diabetes, asthma, and to have obesity.
These individuals were also likley to be a current smoker, to be physically inactive, and to also suffer from various addictions.
Understanding Anxiety and Depression Disorders
It is perfectly normal to worry, to feel tense scared and to fear many things in your life. According to the CDC, persons suffering from anxiety depression also have a reduced quality of life, including limited social functioning, and excess disability. Psychiatric conditions such as when under pressure, under going stress management , through stressful situations. Anxiety is the body’s natural response to fear and danger, when you are threatened.
Although it may be unpleasant, anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, anxiety can help us stay alert and focused, spur us to action, and provide the self motivation to solve problems. But when anxiety is constant or overwhelming, when it interferes with many of your successful relationships in your personal or professional life, and activities—that’s when you’ve crossed the line from normal anxiety into the territory of anxiety disorders.
Do you have an Anxiety Disorder?
If you identify with several of the following signs and symptoms, and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from an anxiety depression.
Are you plagued by fears that you know are irrational, but can’t shake?
Do you believe that something bad will happen if certain things aren’t done a certain way?
Do you avoid everyday situations or activities because they make you anxious?
Do you experience sudden, unexpected attacks of heart-pounding panic?
Do you feel like danger and catastrophe are around every corner?
Common Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Depression
Anxiety Depression are a group of related conditions rather than a single disorder, and because of this, they can look very different and vary from person to person. One individual may suffer from intense anxiety attacks that strike without warning, while another person gets panicky at the thought of mingling at a party due to extreme shyness.,
Someone else may struggle with a disabling fear of driving or uncontrollable, intrusive thoughts. Still another may live in a constant state of tension, worrying about anything and everything.
But despite their different forms, all anxiety disorders share one major symptom: persistent or severe fear or worry in situations where most people wouldn’t feel threatened.
In addition to the primary symptoms of irrational and excessive fear and worry, other common emotional symptoms of anxiety include:
Feelings of apprehension or dread
Trouble concentrating
Feeling tense and jumpy
Anticipating the worst
Irritability
Restlessness
Watching for signs of danger
Feeling like your mind’s gone blank
Physical Symptoms of Anxiety
Anxiety is more than just a feeling. As a product of the body’s fight-or-flight response, anxiety involves a wide range of physical symptoms. Because of the numerous physical symptoms, anxiety sufferers often mistake their disorder for a medical illness. They may visit many doctors and make numerous trips to the hospital before their anxiety disorder is discovered.
Common Physical Symptoms of Anxiety Include:
Pounding heart
Sweating
Stomach upset or dizziness
Frequent urination or diarrhea
Shortness of breath
Tremors and twitches
Muscle tension
Headaches
Fatigue
Insomnia
Using Faith and the Power of Prayer to Overcome Your Anxiety Depression
Don’t worry, I’m not going to preach to you and give you a sermon on the mount dissertation on my spiritual Christian views, but I believe 100% firmly, from my own experience-in the positive impact that hope and faith can have on any situation you are going through. But it starts first by putting your life, your faith in the Creator of the Universe-God Himself.
However, God cannot give you something that you do not have yourself. By accepting the Lord as your personal Savior, God can then provide you all the hope and faith and trust you will ever need in all circumstances you are going through. God uses situations, events and circumstances to teach us, to grow our faith, to increase our determination which grows your spiritual character development.
If everything else you’ve tried in your life has not worked, from various doctors and medications you have been on and tried with no success, you have everything to gain by trusting God. Call out Him, and ask Him how to meditate to Him.
Allow God to minister to your heart and troubled mind, in overcoming your anxiety disorder. You just need to have self discipline and the self motivation in putting your trust and faith in God. Allow Him to do the rest.
Remember: "The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt"