Workshop 2 Presentation: Dealing With Anxiety

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  1. Good morning.
  2. Good afternoon.
  3. Good evening to you all.
  4. Wherever you are in the world.
  5. My name is Coppell Mayor.
  6. Thank you for joining us again.
  7. I'm a licensed professional counselor over here in the United
  8. States. And, um, before we begin with today's topic, I
  9. just want to thank our hosts again for giving us
  10. this opportunity to connect and discuss anxiety in relation to
  11. covid and potential management of said anxiety.
  12. Um, this is a great opportunity for us to a
  13. connects, but be to be able to offer some information
  14. and assume virtual caliber to hopefully be able to assist
  15. and process any anxiety as it manifests here and now
  16. in the pandemic.
  17. Okay, So before we begin, I just wanted to provide
  18. an overall definition, as as it exists currently in the
  19. d S m five, um so anxiety overall is excessive
  20. worry. The D S.
  21. M five acknowledges this in specific set criteria.
  22. Typically, the GSM breaks it down in time, duration and
  23. frequency of specific symptoms.
  24. But for my personal advantage, I think we all should
  25. step away from actual diagnoses and definition of diagnoses and
  26. just look at the symptoms as it exists.
  27. I think that's a better way.
  28. It's an easier way to be able to manifest or
  29. to be able to process what it is that we're
  30. going through be able to move through it so that
  31. we're not necessarily stigmatized by a specific nomenclature of a
  32. diagnosis. But overall, as we all know, anxiety typically manifest
  33. as stress excessive worry.
  34. It can be for two time duration.
  35. It can also manifest in other avenues, impacting one's work
  36. life impacting one regulation of sleep.
  37. Also impacting ones, you know, normal processing.
  38. Typically, if we are anxious or were stressed, we can
  39. have phenomenon of headache.
  40. We can have phenomenon of tightness around the mouth area
  41. jaw area.
  42. We store a tension and stress in various areas of
  43. our body.
  44. Um, which the GSM generally speaks to.
  45. Yeah, The next slide I'm bringing to you is something
  46. that I took from a medical book.
  47. Um, and the reason why I'm bringing the slide to
  48. you all is because I think it's important to understand
  49. kind of the origins of where stress and anxiety sometimes
  50. manifests, and to play this sort of slide out.
  51. If you think about going swimming or if you think
  52. about holding your breath and staying underwater for a long
  53. duration of time.
  54. Sometimes our first reaction in oxygen deprivation situations is to
  55. jump out of the water as fast as possible and
  56. gasp for air.
  57. And so in those instances, what we're doing is we're
  58. trying to diss, regulate or recalibrate the oxygen carbon dioxide
  59. ratios in our system.
  60. So in those instances when we're underwater for a long
  61. period of time, are carbon dioxide ratio is way higher
  62. than our oxygen ratio?
  63. And that's the reason that's the impetus to jump out
  64. of the water and take a deep breath of air
  65. when we have anxiety symptoms, a kind of manifest in
  66. a similar form of fashion.
  67. We have a dis equilibrium of our carbon dioxide to
  68. oxygen ratio, and so we sometimes will manifest as we
  69. need another breath of air.
  70. Um, so sometimes in panic situations or an anxiety situations
  71. or even stressful situations, hyperventilation becomes a phenomenon.
  72. And that's basically our fight or flight response, trying to
  73. help us get re regulated so that our oxygen carbon
  74. dioxide ratios are recalibrated to that resting state where it's
  75. status quo.
  76. So in saying that that's going to lead into a
  77. few exercises that we're going to be talking about later
  78. on. In this Power Point presentation, I'm also going to
  79. be offering a resource to give you some sort of
  80. guided resources that you could practice day in and day
  81. out whenever you're experiencing any type of stress or anxiety
  82. to then be able to re regulate those oxygen carbon
  83. dioxide ratios for yourself in the time of need, the
  84. next point I wanted to bring up was the existentialist
  85. vantage. So existentialism has been a decades old therapeutic modality,
  86. and from that vantage point, anxiety is very much normalized
  87. as a living condition.
  88. And I think this is something that we all should
  89. sort of hold on to as true, because we all
  90. experience specific types of anxiety, whether that is in living
  91. our daily lives or whether that is here and now
  92. in the throes of pandemic, having to experience and endorse
  93. all the changes that are happening in our day to
  94. day operations, not to be limited by political, social and
  95. pretty much the gambit of everything else that's happening in
  96. news. So if we normalize this activity or this sensation
  97. and that sometimes lessens the magnitude of which were endorsing
  98. the symptom or sometimes reduces the magnitude for which it
  99. exists. Um, so maybe when we look at stress, when
  100. we look at anxiety, when we look at worry, we
  101. can then look at it in a framework which is
  102. not so daunting, is not so overwhelming and will help
  103. us process through it.
  104. Um, as the phenomena kind of exists no matter what.
  105. So it's It's not something that some people will feel
  106. versus other people won't feel it's more so.
  107. We all endorse the symptoms.
  108. It's just a varying calibers and in varying magnitudes.
  109. Mhm. So that's everything that I wanted to present.
  110. With regards to the psychoanalysis and and the psycho education
  111. portion of this lecture, I'm going to be recording another
  112. lecture with which we're going to be going through all
  113. of the details of breathing exercises and potential mindfulness techniques
  114. to be able to reregulate and recalibrate those oxygen to
  115. carbon dioxide ratios.
  116. As I for mentioned, I really hope that this information
  117. was helpful.
  118. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out
  119. to any of our sponsors and myself included.
  120. Happy to have a further conversation about what it is
  121. that you may be experiencing or what you think of
  122. this entire lecture series, Um, and hopefully rectify or help
  123. in that process again.
  124. My name is capital near.
  125. I'm a licensed professional counselor over here in the United
  126. States, and it's been an honor and pleasure to be
  127. able to speak with you all.