What Does Anxiety Look Like? Get Control Of Your Anxiety.
Anxiety!!! Yuck! Does it make you anxious just thinking about anxiety?
Do you find that your anxiety interferes with your life too much? Maybe you have anxiety every day. Do any of these things sound familiar to you?
Tense or nervous
Anxious or worrying every day (Maybe even every hour)
Overthinking (ruminating)
Missing events due to anxiety
Relationships being affected by your worry or anxiety
Belly aches, muscle tension, headaches
Not sleeping because your mind will not slow down
Restlessness
Fatigue
Feelings of dread
Feelings of panic or doom
Do you find yourself thinking “It’s just the way I am” or “I am going to feel this way all of my life”?
But life does not have to be this way.
Read that again…Life does not have to be this way!
My name is Karen Baum. I have had anxiety all of my life and now I work with people that have anxiety.
I can remember in kindergarten having belly aches before school (and during school and…) My anxiety was so bad for decades. I would miss school, work, events (even events I was excited about.) I would lay awake for hours feeling out of control.
It wasn’t until I hit 40ish years old that I began to get a handle on my anxiety. I never thought my life could get better. I thought anxiety was just the way my life had to be.
But it wasn’t.
And now anxiety is not my life.
Don’t get me wrong. I still get anxious. But I rarely miss an event and no longer feel like anxiety has control of me.
I wish I knew back then what I know now.
Now I teach others how they can get control of their anxiety.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 31.1% of people will have an anxiety disorder in their life. Approximately 19.1% have had an anxiety disorder in the past year. This does not include people that have intermittent anxiety.
You do not have to be clinically diagnosed as having anxiety to have anxiety affect your life.
These are types of Anxiety Disorders I often see in my clients:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Severe anxiety and worry that interferes with daily living.
Specific Phobia. Severe fear of something that will most likely cause little to no harm to you. These might be fear of an animal (spiders, dogs…), natural environments (heights, tornadoes, water…), blood-injection-injury (needles, invasive medical procedures…)
Social Anxiety Disorder. Fear or anxiety in social situations.
Panic Disorder. Recurring panic attacks
Learn how to talk to loved ones about your anxiety.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Let me (or another therapist that specializes in anxiety) guide you to that light.
Take over your life!
Saving Grace Telehealth Counseling
Karen Baum MA, LPCC-S
Working through secure video for those in Ohio
419.277.4355 Text or call
WWW.SavingGraceTC.com
Email: Karen@ SavingGraceTC.com
Resources:
DSM 5 American Psychiatric Association (2022). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR.Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health website, accessed 12.20.2023, www.nimh.nih.gov
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disorder#part_2579
