Unworthy published an article about anxiety that touches on what happens in your brain when you feel anxiety and anxiety’s relationship to PTSD, and we thought it was worth sharing here. Please read the excerpt below, and if you live in northeastern Ohio and recognize yourself or someone else and would like to be evaluated, please give us a call.
…In fact, anxiety is a normal and evolutionary biological response to stressful situations. Our brains are really good at linking bad experiences (like awkward dates) and stimuli together, mostly because it keeps us safe.
If something bad happens and then you’re in a similar situation in the future (like, say, having to talk to nearly 20 strangers in five-minute increments), your brain holds up big signs to help you remember to stay safe — signs like that prickling feeling on the back of my neck.
Other signs can be mental symptoms, like hypervigilance or intrusive thoughts, or physical ones, like a racing heartbeat or feeling nauseous or dizzy. And these can sometimes be really, really hard to ignore.