How do I know when I have an anxiety problem and when to ask for help?

Many people live with anxiety problems and never ask for help in order to defeat this disease of the XXI century.

There is a lot of information on anxiety, but few people or articles tell us when to go for psychological help and what symptoms to look out for.

• Related article: "Types of Anxiety Disorders and their characteristics"

How to recognize anxiety problems?

First of all I want to teach you what are the symptoms of harmful anxiety; For this we must bear in mind that we all experience anxiety, which is one more emotion that is there and that also helps us to face day-to-day problems; it is, so to speak, something that helps us adapt to the environment. The problem comes when it increases considerably and makes our day-to-day tasks difficult.

Here I have compiled a series of symptoms that recur in many of the patients I treat and have treated.

1. Throat / chest pressure

We don't know why it comes, surely we have gone to our family doctor to ask him and he has told us that what we have anxiety, or in other cases they have referred us to another specialist or even medicated us. In almost 95% of cases this is a symptom of anxiety.

2. Chronic tiredness

You wake up and you're tired, you eat and you're tired, the weekend comes and you're tired. In the end your sleep is not deep and you need to rest better, but your head cannot disconnect, it is It is important to learn techniques to relax the muscles more so that the body disconnects more.

3. Lack of sleep or intermittent sleep

It happens when you wake up many times at night very nervous thinking about an idea / dream that of course causes you anguish. This dream is related to your obsessive thoughts or worries from day to day, you live perhaps with too many responsibilities and these are reflected in your unconscious that is seen in the dreams of the night.

4. Impulsiveness for food

It usually happens a lot between patients wanting to eat non-stop during episodes of acute stress. They calm their nervousness by eating large amounts of food, especially unhealthy ones.

5. Lack of appetite

There is also the other extreme. A lack of appetite also occurs in people with anxiety problems due to the fact that they experience a closed stomach.

6. Gastrointestinal disorders

As simple as that when we are stressed our body generates cortisol, and this makes the stomach defend itself by increasing pain when making contractions or increasing the production of stomach acid.

• You may be interested in: "Cortisol: the hormone that causes us stress"

7. Headache

This is very broad, since the lack of rest and being nervous generates this ailment.

8. Disconnection

The person who suffers it focuses on her world and barely interacts with her surroundings, thus suffering twice as much and feeling more and more that no one understands him.

9. Explosiveness of character

Something like "everything feels bad to me." Normally you feel that you explode at the least and that nobody understands you. This is very frequent because you have reached a point of maximum concern in which you cannot stand anyone telling you anything.

10. Concentration problems

Obviously having worries makes it harder for us to stay focused for long periods.

11. Loss of hobbies

Nothing entertains you, your free time is based on sitting or watching TV. You feel with the syndrome of "I have nothing to do" and at that very moment things occur to you that you left halfway.

When do I have to ask for help?

If you ask me if your problem has a solution, I have to say yes; My job is to make you improve through the different techniques that I have studied that go hand in hand with the experience that I have been obtaining over the years with patients, and we must not forget that your job is to get involved and follow the instructions that I am going to giving.

You must be clear that going to the psychologist is not a situation that should occur only in emergencies, but also as prevention to avoid greater evils. When these symptoms begin to weigh you down and you feel like you're overwhelmed, it's time to put yourself in the hands of a specialist.

Why choose a psychological treatment? It is important to be clear that it is not exclusive with a pharmacological treatment, and that Through good therapy we will be able to achieve mental skills to deal with day-to-day problems that a pill will not be able to provide us never.

Shall we start?

My name is Javier Ares and I am a specialist in anxiety disorders as well as couples therapy and intervention in depression.

My studies together with the years of experience treating this psychological pathology will make the treatment more effective.

If you are looking for a therapy where you are an active part through practical exercises that I will put you between session and session and flee from chat therapy, do not hesitate to contact me.