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Anxiety is an emotion that causes us to feel worried and afraid. It may stem from what has happened to us or what may happen to us. We can express anxiety in healthy ways that would help us reach calmness.
See the fact file below for more information on the Anxiety or alternatively, you can download our 19-page Anxiety worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.
Key Facts & Information
ANXIETY: What is it? What does it make us feel?
- Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of worry, apprehension, or fear. Uncertainty of outcomes is the root of anxiety.
- Anxiety is triggered by certain habits or situations we go through.
- Anxiety can make us feel confined, lost, worried, nauseous, afraid, and more. Our anxiety can result from day-to-day activities or big, impactful events we go through. When we are anxious, we tend to spiral into the negative possibilities of our actions.
- When we are anxious we may get cold sweats, our throat may tighten, our palms may get sweaty, we may feel queasy, and sometimes we may lose track of reality.
- It is possible to feel like there is a bottomless pit of bad situations that could happen.
ANXIETY: Coping skills and proper expression
- People express their anxiety in different ways. Some people like to challenge their thoughts by dissecting what’s making them anxious. Others like redirecting their thoughts, while some take a step back from their problems.
- Anxiety is a naturally occurring emotion that must be expressed. However, there are healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with and expressing anxiety.
- Unhealthy expression of anxiety includes assuming that the worst possible scenario will happen, isolating yourself from your peers and family, denying you are anxious, regretting actions or events that took place in the past, fixating on negative, untrue possibilities, finding something or someone to blame, lashing out at others and more. All these hinder you from realizing what is true, causing you to stay stuck in a downward spiral of thoughts.
- These practices warp your perception of reality, causing you to become even more anxious or have anxiety attacks. Anxiety attacks are episodes of intense fear characterized by physical symptoms such as dizziness, chest pain, startling easily, loss of concentration, nausea, rapid heart rate, irritability, and shortness of breath.
- Healthily expressing your anxiety can contribute to you achieving a calmer state of mind. Some ways of healthily expressing your anxiety include admitting you are anxious, determining the root cause of what’s making you anxious, focusing on reality and the things you can change, redirecting your thoughts to your hobbies or something less anxiety-provoking, taking deep breaths, and talking about it.
- These practices can help you get your thoughts grounded since they induce a sense of control and certainty.
ANXIETY: Healthy and unhealthy anxiety
- As mentioned earlier, anxiety is a naturally occurring emotion. However, there are different degrees of being anxious, healthy anxiety, and anxiety that is unhealthy.
- Healthy anxiety is the type of anxiety that arises from actual situations that happened and can happen to us. It occurs at moments in our lives that are significant to us. It may sometimes even be a source of drive and determination. It can help us reach our goals.
- Unhealthy anxiety is when it limits our function and occurs too frequently. It is the type of anxiety that stops us from fulfilling our responsibilities and living a happy, productive life. It is the type of anxiety where we can no longer control our thoughts. When anxiety affects our physical state and causes loss of appetite, restlessness, insomnia, abnormal heart rhythms, and frequent muscle tightness, it is no longer healthy and beneficial.
- Anxiety is a normal part of our emotional spectrum. It may be of help to us as much as it could of harm. If you ever feel like you have no control over your anxiety, please talk to professionals, your family, schoolteachers, or even your friends.
ANXIETY: How to help those with anxiety
- Anxiety affects nearly 5% of people worldwide. People who suffer from anxiety will benefit significantly from help and encouragement from those around them.
- If you know someone who suffers from anxiety, show them care by providing factual validation, maintaining lines of communication open, listening to them, not pressuring them, encouraging them to seek professional help, helping them maintain a balance between work/school and personal life, helping them find things that bring joy and composure, being aware of their symptoms that lead to their anxiety attacks, and more.
- If you see someone having a panic attack, offer them your help. You can help them simply by staying with them, offering them medicine (if they take medicine), hugging them (but not too tightly), saying words of assurance, asking them what they need, helping them do breathing exercises, providing a calm, stress-free environment, and allowing them to go through their process of calming down.
- Anxiety and anxiety attacks are terrible things to go through, much more when you go through them alone. By being there for those who suffer from these, you are helping a lot already.
Anxiety Worksheets
This is a fantastic bundle that includes everything you need to know about Anxiety across 19 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about Anxiety, understanding that we can express anxiety in healthy ways that would help us reach calmness.
Complete List Of Included Worksheets
- Anxiety Facts
- I’m Nervous
- Action Plan
- Level Up
- Jar of Worries
- Lists
- Let’s Get Physical
- Handlers
- I Feel…
- Step by Step
- Journaling
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