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Generalised Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, presents itself with excessive worry, even without immediate threat or cause.
Another symptom of GAD is experiencing concerns that are out of proportion for what has caused them. People with GAD, for instance, will experience anxiety when facing unfamiliar situations or places. The anxiety and its symptoms will escalate, and many may opt not to engage in a specific situation because it has become unbearable.
GAD can cause an elevated heart rate, sweating, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhoea, dizziness, and racing thoughts. Generalised Anxiety Disorder makes it hard to do day-to-day chores that may appear trivial to others. GAD is known to cause difficulties in a person’s life, such as causing troubles in a relationship or causing problems at work owing to excessive concern.
Panic disorder is characterised by persistent and incapacitating panic attacks. Common symptoms are palpitations, tachycardia, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath or smothering, nausea, chest discomfort, lightheaded, feeling of doom and imminent death, chills or hot flushes.Furthermore, experiencing at least one panic attack per month is frequently followed by the worry of having more panic attacks regularly.
Such stressful conditions motivate people to alter their behaviour, which often involves avoiding circumstances they feel may result in panic attacks.
If not well or having symptoms, everyone may question if they have a significant medical condition. So it is natural to be concerned about your health. Yet there is a distinction between overall health worries and more severe health anxiety.
Health anxiety is an excessive health concern that activates your anxiety. When such worries become excessive, unreasonable, and persist after doctor reassurance, testing and second opinions.
Health anxiety can affect people that indeed have health issues. Still, despite doctors’ reassurance, they do not believe the diagnosis or expect much worse outcomes than the specialists inform them.
Another scenario is when there is a severe and even a terminal condition; of course, emotions and fear are involved. Yet after the shock, the person cannot adjust to the new situation and their lives are just focused on the illness, and they may spend precious time worrying and not living.
Those who suffer from OCD have repeating unpleasant thoughts, ideas, or urges (obsessions). In addition, the person frequently engage in repetitive rituals (compulsions) to feel better. They are powerless to control them or the anguish they cause.
Obsessions are frequently extreme concerns with germs, disease, checking gas or electric appliances, locking doors, driving carefully, cleanliness and tidiness, thoughts of violence or gruesome images, or sex. Compulsions typically involve repetitive acts to prevent an obsessive worry from happening or alleviate stress. However, compulsions can also take the form to be thoughts.
Common compulsions are, for example, constantly needing to wash, clean, check locks, ovens, etc., organise or arrange things, count, pray, and many other repeating acts.
When anxiety hits hard, we are ready to work as a team so you don’t have to go through it alone. At Act Right Now Counselling Services, we have the knowledge and expertise to help you find relief and healing.
We use a variety of practical therapeutic approaches, including IFS (Internal Family System), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and polyvagal-informed therapies. We also incorporate somatic strategies to address the mind-body connection and help you find excellent balance and well-being.
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There is no reason to give up if you have previously tried therapy and have not experienced the desired outcomes.
Instead, we use a tailored and collaborative approach to treatment, adapting our policy using methodologies like IFS (Internal Family System), which has benefited when cognitive therapies like CBT and Talk Therapy have failed.
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The questionnaire below is for you if you suspect you have Anxiety-related symptoms. This quick and straightforward non-clinical assessment can help you understand if you need further anxiety assessment and better understand your symptoms.
Don’t hesitate to take the first step towards seeking support. You may fear that your concerns must be more severe to warrant help, but this questionnaire can help you better understand your situation.
Please note that this questionnaire is not a diagnostic tool and cannot be used for clinical reasons, but it is a helpful initial step in understanding if your symptoms are linked to anxiety.
After you complete the questionnaire, we will require your contact information since a counsellor will review your results at no cost and send them to you via email. You can rest assured that we do not use your email for spam, and you can unsubscribe from further communication.
We recommend booking a free consultation with our counsellor to review your results and address your symptoms.
Everyone encounters worry and stress sometimes. However, it’s critical to distinguish between anxiety reacting to a stressful circumstance and being diagnosed with an anxiety condition. Anxiety is a type of mental illness with several forms of anxiety disorders.
All humans experience anxiety at a particular time in their lives.
Anxiety motivates us to work more, learn harder, and accomplish more than we would without an internal drive. But, as a typical reaction to stress, the sensation fades typically away once the cause has gone. Yet, concerns, anxiousness, or uneasiness can persist longer than what initiated them in the first place.
Anxiety can induce stomach pains, shortness of breath, a racing pulse, and sometimes even chest discomfort. Stress, relationships, job, money, and emotional difficulties can exacerbate it. There are different typologies of anxiety, and you care to read more in our Mental Health Resources.
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We provide a safe environment in which you may work through your problems. Don’t let anxiety stop you any longer. With us, there’s also no need to be concerned about extra weekends or late-night appointment fees. Make an appointment with us to begin your road towards an anxiety-free life.
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