So from my understanding. Anxious people are so anxious that they overload the part of the brain that typical deals with anxiety so the brain routes it to another part of the brain to deal with it and that part of the brain isn't what you want dealing with it so it cause problems. So the key is too limit overloading the part of the brain that deals with anxiety, which probably means doing things you are fearing to do…
What if there are things we are fearing to do but shouldn’t be doing also?
So from my understanding. Anxious people are so anxious that they overload the part of the brain that typical deals with anxiety so the brain routes it to another part of the brain to deal with it and that part of the brain isn't what you want dealing with it so it cause problems. So the key is too limit overloading the part of the brain that deals with anxiety, which probably means doing things you are fearing to do…
> So the key is too limit overloading the part of the brain that deals with anxiety, which probably means doing things you are fearing to do so that you no longer fear doing it.
I gave this advice in the past, but I know people with social anxiety disorder for whom this approach does not work.
So from my understanding. Anxious people are so anxious that they overload the part of the brain that typical deals with anxiety so the brain routes it to another part of the brain to deal with it and that part of the brain isn't what you want dealing with it so it cause problems. So the key is too limit overloading the part of the brain that deals with anxiety, which probably means doing things you are fearing to do…
More accurately multiple parts of the brain are activated when considering anxious situations.
In anxious people the FPI is unable to override the avoidance behaviours.
The key is not to limit overload you don't have much choice there, it's to use other mechanisms to make your seek exposure and not continue avoidance.
CBT is all about teaching those skills the paper mentions TMS.
If you suffer from serious anxiety, I highly recommend you work on any health issues you have. Low blood sugar in particular is known to promote anxiety by increasing the amount of adrenaline in your system.
I used to suffer a lot of anxiety. Getting physically healthier helped mitigate that enormously.
Proviso: n=1, "anecdata" and the usual dismissals that random internet strangers desperately try to apply as if I somehow misrepresented myself and claimed it was from a large scale study.
It's always fear, isn't it? We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen. But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that. Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort z…
Yes most of human behavior is about fear - just that we mostly aren’t aware of it. Almost everything is a coping strategy for fear - some constructive, others destructive.
Some people end up with more of the constructive ones, others with more of the destructive ones.
The way to have some control over this is mindfulness, to practice being aware of the fear whenever it comes, and then of the habitual response. And then to practice responding differently if one doesn’t find one’s habitual response constructive.
It's always fear, isn't it? We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen. But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that. Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort z…
This 100%. But the only time where I do have the courage to step out of that comfort zone is when I have that don't-give-a-shit attitude usually triggered by a specific life situation for e.g divorce made me not give a shit about being self-conscious about going to the gym or I'm pretty bad at asking people for help but had to approach someone at immigration to get help with my passport in front of everyone there.
I wish it comes easy like with the people I know for e.g no worries or issues at all with questioning a contractor regarding the price of remodelling a kitchen, sending back dishes due to some quality issues..etc
have agoraphobia pretty bad. I've spent so much time trying to work on exposure, but then I'll have a huge panic attack, I don't have access to my frontal cortex to reason through it, during this time I'm feeling the immensity of the universe, I feel electricity running through my body, at the end of it all when I get somewhere "safe" I'm not able to think straight or sleep well for months. So yeah the impulse to avo…
Not a psychologist, but you might need to build exposure more slowly, and maybe check for other issues (such as generalized anxiety disorder, avoidant personality disorder, hypochondria) because a panic attack should not take months to recover from.
The language of this is challenging for me to read and understand. Is there any clarity on whether high anxiety leads to this different routing, or whether there has been some event in the past leading to this routing which then leads to high anxiety? And is there any indication whether exposure to feared situations will lessen anxiety after this difference in routing is in place?
According to the paper avoidance begets avoidance.
Avoidance and success in anxiety inducing situations both lead to relief. Most of us have plenty of experience of both leading to balanced future responses.