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Anxiety (GAD) : MY UNDERSTANDING, MY EXPERIENCE N MY PERSPECTIVE…..🧠🧠 PART

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To control anxiety, CBT is one of the main therapies used. Other therapies are like Behavioural activation, graded exposure and many more. But unfortunately, these are not that useful for people struggling with GAD .

It can be more difficult for those with GAD to avoid in order to manage their fears, ‘coz there is no specific reason behind their fear, worry or anxiety. CBT is not very useful for GAD patients, treatment may include more cognitive therapies( to understand the thoughts process of those suffering from GAD).

I would like to narrate one of my problems I have to face ‘coz of GAD. I always opt to do online grocery shopping and just go and pick up stuff sitting in my car. But on rare occasions, I have to go in store, the moment I entered store, I can feel that anxiety hits me, I start feeling hot flushes, stomache, feeling to go toilet, suddenly from nowhere brain fog hits me. As I walked down the aisles, it feels to me that whole aisle will fall on me, I get confused by seeing so much stuff around me. I find it difficult to find out the product I want, though I have perfect eyesight, but during that time I feel my eyes are getting blurred and I find it difficult to pick up my product. I suddenly get confused, I get so panic that I just want to rush out of the store. Now there’s no specific reason behind this, as I didnt have any bad memories associated with grocery store, but still I find it difficult.

Once there was a time when I go out for coffee alone, reading some book. I preferred to go alone not ‘coz I have problem with people,I go alone to just enjoy my ME time. I have problem in tolerating people but I have no issues in talking to my friends, I can talk, have conversation for hours. I am mostly centre of attraction at parties, coz maybe I know how to put up mask but at the same time I find it really a tedious job to tolerate people, I get so hyper, couldn’t find out any topic for discussion/talk. So its weird thing for me to understand and its out of my capabilities to make others understand it.

I find/ understand from my experiences that: The main n major issue with mental health illness is that at first,as a patient we find it difficult to accept it ,sometimes its tooo late when we accept it and seeks medical help. Then comes our family and lastly the people whom we are surrounded with. If I’m not wrong at the most 90 to 95% people don’t know that mental health illness is also important and is worth to consider it serious to take care of as we consider physical health illness. Mostly mental health patients are not taken seriously, talking from my personal experience ,I met even few medical professionals who inspite of being into it, dont take mental illness seriously at first instance. They thought we are after some sort of drugs (medicines) there are different classes of medications for this like SSRI, SNRI, Asychomatic, Benzodiazepines etc, these medicines help to numb brain and made us to sleep ,keep anxiety incontrol. Even sometimes you’ve to go ER when you’ve anxiety attack, some of the staff there look at you with squeezed eyebrows, tell you with sarcasm that oh so you come for drugs(medicines). I’m not saying every medical professional behave like this but still, some of them, but at the same time I want tp mention here that luckily I have good medical professionals team who helps me, my GP, my Psychologist . But I had encounter with above medical professionals too and that make me reluctant to go to some new GP or Psychologist or Psychiatrists.

It is very important to spread mental health awareness so that more and more people comes to know about it and take it seriously. So that even if they don’t want to help anyone in need but atleast should know what the patient is dealing with and atleast wouldn’t increase their problem.

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Great post. Thank you

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😊🙏glad unliked it

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Very much so. Could relate to do much of it

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