Anxiety.

Anxiety, or fear, is something that many people experience. Fear can often be a motivating factor in people’s lives, but what about when there is too much fear and it results in feeling debilitated?

Anxiety or fear usually has its roots in a traumatic experience early in life, where assumptions and beliefs were formed and have never been challenged. The assumption is buried somewhere in your sub-conscious, and often the beliefs can be too. This makes it extremely hard for the fear-gripped person to see where their fear is coming from, or understanding why they are fearful. Normally too, when a person experiences a fearful incident, the body releases an amount of adrenaline to help you cope with the incident. This injection or boost of adrenaline in a way adds power to your memory of the situation.

Whenever trigger incidents occur in your life, where your brain releases adrenaline in the same way it did initially, your memory remembers how you were fearful at this time. This results in you feeling fearful now. You then act on, or ‘indulge’ your fear. Acting on it is then a way of reinforcing it, so when a trigger incident occurs again, your brain is definitely telling you it is a fearful situation. You then act on it, which reinforces it again. The vicious cycle goes around over and over again, until you are so gripped with fear and anxiety you’re unable to function normally.

The cycle can really only be broken through therapy, where the original assumption can be traced, faced and replaced. The good news is that your fear or anxiety can be overcome and you can get back the reigns on your life.