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everyone experiences some form of anxiety.
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Whether that be sweaty palms before a
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speech or butterflies before meeting someone,
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anxiety is a response to stress.
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It's a nervousness that's in our DNA,
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helpful for seeing threats to our safety and survival
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and can actually be helpful.
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Rival
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For some people, this anxiety is very unhelpful and can manifest as a disorder.
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Let's take a look into what an anxiety disorder is.
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20% of Australians are experiencing a mental illness,
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14 of which anxiety related disorders
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the highest proportion being PTSD and then social phobia.
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What does anxiety look like in this population?
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It will present differently for everyone, but there are some common physical,
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psychological and behavioural symptoms.
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What causes this?
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There is no specific cause, however.
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There are some risk factors that can contribute
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someone developing an anxiety disorder
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disorder.
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Biologically, family history increases your chance,
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and studies suggest
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that there's a link between structural changes and anxiety development.
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We also see an increased rate of anxiety with comorbidities,
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such as physical injury, depression and pregnancy.
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A person who has low self esteem
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is a perfectionist,
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might be easily flustered or timid
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if they have negative thinking styles or misinterpret
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their physical symptoms can also be at risk
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if someone was to experience physical, verbal, sexual emotional
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abuse
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or stress from work finances, family relationships,
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this ongoing stress or bad experiences
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and even lack of supports
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can contribute
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to development of
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an anxiety disorder.
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So as this impact the person
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anxiety can affect most areas of someone's life,
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we can look more closely into these three categories.
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Some people may also turn to drugs or alcohol to manage their symptoms,
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which can further impact their performance in occupations.
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But who can help these people manage their anxiety?
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These are just a few examples.
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Psychiatry and nursing or your general practitioner can
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help with the medical side of things.
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Medications or diagnosing
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psychology
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often helps with cognitive therapy
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and occupational therapy and social work.
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We'll get helping with daily living and activities.
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Occupational therapy
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can assess mental well being,
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which can add additional evidence
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for diagnosis,
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but will also be used to monitor progress from OT interventions.
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Assessments such as
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the recovery style
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with the model of
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human occupation screening talk
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good for O. T. S. To understand what areas
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consumers life are being
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impacted
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so that the areas can be targeted with intervention strategies.
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Let's look at some
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specific
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intervention strategies for anxiety
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used by
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the multi
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disciplinary team.
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These strategies are used to promote and plan recovery
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and can be thought of
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in a clinical, personal or social way.
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Personal recovery centres around being satisfied in life,
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even with illness.
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The following anagram is the way we can go about facility that satisfaction
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for recovery in the personal sense.
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Some biological interventions that can be organised by your psychiatrist or GP
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medications
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to reduce symptoms of anxiety.
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Socially
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interventions include
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increased community engagement and peer support
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and skills training in areas such as communication or problem solving.
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Also having healthy habits such as good sleep, regular exercise and healthy eating
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help reduce anxiety symptoms.
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Also, good preventative measures for
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healthy.
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Yep, well being.
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Psychological interventions are mostly carried out by psychologists
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over occupational therapy, and other allied health professionals
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can help this area by learning how to apply simple techniques to therapy,
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such as Reza
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relaxation techniques.
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Mindfulness
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is a growing field,
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and some
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being O. T. S can easily teach