Overcoming the Fear of Fear: How to Reduce Anxiety Sensitivity
Language: English
Pages: 216
ISBN: 1572245581
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Anxiety isn't all in your head. When you feel nervous, symptoms such as chills, sweating, heart palpitations, and shaking can affect your whole body. If you worry that others notice these anxiety symptoms or fear that they could be harmful to your health, you may have anxiety sensitivity. Anxiety sensitivity is the fear of anxiety-related sensations, a condition that affects approximately 16 percent of the population. People with high anxiety sensitivity often fear these bodily sensations even more than the situation that caused their anxiety in the first place. This fear of fear can lead them to avoid activities that might trigger their symptoms, and can cause other mental and physical problems down the road.
Overcoming the Fear of Fear provides you with all the tools you need to stop fearing your anxiety symptoms for good. You'll learn to use cognitive behavioral techniques that have been proven effective for people with anxiety sensitivity. These techniques can help you reduce your anxiety sensitivity, prevent recurrence of panic attacks, and start living without fear.
likely is it that you’ll die the next time you panic and how likely is it that you’ll lose someone close to you? It’s worth noting, however, that in some cases it could be very helpful to more closely examine what would be so awful about the possibility of dying. An example is the case of a woman with hypochondriasis who believed that leaving her children motherless would be horrible because nobody would care for them as she did. In this case, examining the underlying meaning of her fear of death
insomnia (Breslau et al. 1996; Ohayon 1996, 1997, 2002). According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA 2000), insomnia is characterized by problems in one or more of four sleep domains: difficulty getting to sleep, difficulty staying asleep, waking up very early in the morning, and not feeling rested even after ample time in bed (called non-restorative sleep). Insomnia affects all age groups, and its incidence increases with age. Among older adults, insomnia affects women more often than
pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, or abdominal distress. The exact cause or causes of panic disorder are unknown and are the subject of intense scientific investigation. Heredity, other biological factors, and stressful life events are all believed to play a role in the onset of panic disorder. Another factor known to play a role in causing panic disorder is a high level of anxiety sensitivity. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to the fear of sensations associated with
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