Anxiety

Yeah. Hi.

My name is Bailey Oliver, and my final presentation is

on tackling anxiety.

First one to start off with the definition of anxiety

as defined by Oxford languages.

Anxieties of feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about

an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Normal anxieties of feeling that most living creatures experience while

we are in a stressful situation in which our body

is producing reactions from that anxiety and you can see

here I've brought an example in the SpongeBob in the

episode where the food Critic is there.

He wasn't sure if he put the pickles on the

sandwich or not.

So he is spreading all of it, which is totally

normal. There are some benefits to anxiety on one of

the top ones being it initiates your fight or flight

reaction. This thing said, say, you're walking down a road

and then there's a snake in the road.

You get anxious and scared a little bit, and so

it initiates your fight or flight, so you they're gonna

try and get rid of the snake in the road

or you're going to run, which would probably be the

best answer.

The nice thing is protect us.

Um, same is the fighter flight.

That anxiety creates the reaction to your body so you

can get away from whatever danger you are in.

The next thing is that it pushes us to get

things done.

I think it's stuff within this.

What I mean by this is like school work.

So you get anxious when you have a test coming

up. And so you study for that test and prepared

for it.

Um, anxiety can help us push, push ourselves, take it.

Work done and beyond Time for things.

Yes. Now we're gonna talk a little bit about anxiety

is where there is one more in specific anxiety disorders

or characters by excessive and persistent fear and anxiety and

by bullet related disturbances in behavior.

Um, approximately 25 to 30% of the US population meets

the criteria for an anxiety disorder.

The main this sort of we're gonna be talking about

is generalized anxiety.

Um, it's a relatively continuous state of excessive, uncontrollable and

pointless worry and apprehension.

Um, going with diagnosing that typically it's a little bit

more difficult to diagnose because it is similar to many

other disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorders and

other types of anxiety.

And, uh, d s m has always kind of changing

the criteria for it.

There's never been anything sets down.

Hmm. Some of the signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety.

One thing is persistent worrying.

So this isn't just like with regular anxiety.

You go to take a test.

You're worried this continues after that tests.

And along with that excessive overthinking, you overthink every single

move you make and every decision you make, which also

also leads into indecisiveness.

Um, for a very small example, you can't decide where

to eat for food because you think if you go

toe one place, you'll wish you went to the other

places. So you just cannot decide.

Another thing is feeling restless.

Um, this goes along with overthinking your morning, you're up

a night constantly just trying to think about everything that

happened and all the decisions you make and things you

have to do, which is a lot.

And you stay up at night sometimes.

Um and the last thing is difficulty concentrating.

And this is something I think a lot of us

are experiencing now.

Um, some more severe than others with this cove, it

and quarantine and everything that is happening.

Um, it's hard to focus on schoolwork and personally, it's

hard for me to do online all day and basically

be inside all day.

Next, we're gonna talk about some of the more physical

signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety.

One of the things is fatigue being kind of tired

all the time.

It goes along with your trouble sleeping when you're up

all night trying to think of things, it's a little

bit hard to get sleep.

Um, some people experience sweating excessive sweating, which is never

fun. Um, nausea.

If people are up and anxious so much, it can

make their stomach hurt a bit and even threw up,

um, nervousness.

I think this pretty obvious.

You get pretty nervous and just think about everything with

anxiety. Um, trembling.

Some people actually get to be pretty shaky when they

get anxious.

And the last thing is irritability, um, irritability.

It seems to happen more when people are just thinking,

and then one thing goes wrong, and then they're just

angry about that kind of.

On the next, we're gonna talk about some other more

unusual or more on common science and symptoms of generalized

anxiety. One of those things is biting or chewing your

fingernails on when you're nervous, you kind of have, like

a tick.

And so if you're like super anxious all the time,

you continue continuously by or chewing your fingernails.

Another thing is, and this goes a little bit more

with stress and anxiety.

But headaches or migraines on the last thing is very

rarely if you're super anxious and super stressed out.

Oh, you can have a rash break out extra me

talking about coping mechanisms.

So the definition of coping is mental or behavioral effort

used to manage problems relating distress, including its cause and

unpleasant feelings and emotions it produces.

So now let's talk about some of those mechanisms.

Um, first one keeping a journal.

This is super nice for anyone.

Be able to write down your thoughts and get it

out of your head and stop thinking about it for

a little bit.

At least, the next thing is getting professional help.

Um, therapy and counseling are great options, even if you're

not super anxious all the time talking to somebody, which

is their job, it's very.

It's a very nice and pleasant thing to Dio.

Um, next is making with sir prioritizing.

So all the times, anxiety or stress comes from putting

things off for not knowing what to do or forgetting

things. And so something that has helped a lot of

people is to make a list of the things you

have to dio and prioritizing the most important things at

the top and then going down to the bottom to

make sure you get things done within the day.

Next thing is talking to someone you trust, Um, this

could be friends, or it could be family.

Just somebody close to you that you trust that will

experience your emotions with you.

Next is going for a walk or getting some physical

exercise when someone is feeling very anxious and super overwhelmed

Going for a walk, getting fresh air.

Maybe working out is a really good way of just

resetting and not thinking about what is making you so

anxious. Next is kind of a preliminaries tip.

Getting enough sleep.

This is very important because if you don't get enough

sleep, your body is not totally refreshed.

Um, and it's not gonna be ready for the day,

which does set your odds back of it.

For me, the last thing is is kind of Anak

Tiv ity is focusing on your sentence.

So, um, something you could do is when you're totally

overthinking you focus in you say Okay, what is one

thing I can smell Or two things I can hear?

What are three things I can see Water.

Four things I can touch And what are five things

I can taste?

It's a very, very interesting.

But it also brings you back to your surroundings.

Yeah, yeah.

Mm. Here's a nice family reminder of and say anxiety

is a totally normal and human thing.

Everyone should feel those feelings at some point in our

lives. Uh, if you do believe it is severe anxiety

and more towards the disorder, there are tons of help

and abundances of resource is out there.

Um, Chico State, the World Catt center.

They're all great.

Resource is no personal personal experience with anxiety.

Um, when I get anxious Ah, lot of the times

I like to journal my thoughts down.

Then I am able to kind of put in the

words how I'm feeling and then it usually makes me

feel that better.

Next is planning out my day writing down the work

I need to dio with online school.

It's really hard for me to keep track of all

my assignments and worked and stuff.

And so it's easy for me toe.

Get a plan around and make a checklist of all

the assignments I have to Lastly, going for a walk

or getting outside to clear my head.

This is very important.

I mean, online schools tough and you're sitting inside for

most of the day.

So being able to go out and listen to the

birds and just get some fresh air, it's super super

important for help.

Mm. And last thing is being around people who make

you happy to cheer you up with this quarantine.

It's hard to get out and socialize, but if you

have a few people that you're able to see and

make you happy, do that.

It's very, very, very important for your mental health.

And here are my sources.

Thank you guys for listening

Anxiety

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