Anxiety is a state of mind where future damage or evil is anticipated.Evolutionally, if you suffer anxiety in certain stressful situations it can be healthy, since alarms in the brain that indicate a possible danger are triggered in the making, and so we take action to face it.
But if you always suffer from anxiety , then you are facing a case of anxiety disorder , in the one that your behavior is affected in a remarkable way.Let's see with some more attention.
Do you suffer anxiety? Your brain sees everything different!
The problem when you suffer from anxiety is that worry and stress do not leave you, even if the objective reasons for feeling anxiety have disappeared.This disorder can be suffered by anyone, even children, and there is more frequency among women than among men.
This constant, daily fear, this permanent concern wreaks havoc not only on your mood, but also on your body, especially in the brain.
This is verified by a group of psychologists, whose findings were published in the journal Current Biology.These professionals showed that people with anxiety disorder unconsciously describe their environment as a threat, even more innocuous things , so that even the most insignificant can trigger anxiety.
It is not known very b which are the causes of what is called "generalized anxiety disorder", but they point out that genes and stress can contribute to its appearance, and those who suffer from it find it very difficult to control it .
When there is generalized anxiety, the brain groups everything, safe and insecure, under a big label that says "danger," and researchers call this approach "better safe than sorry." Yes, the brain An anxious person does not distinguish-cannot-threatening information from what is not.And that is why she is constantly worried.
To prove this, the group of psychologists and researchers conducted an experiment in which they recruited 28 people diagnosed with anxiety disorder and 16 healthy people The study was developed in two parts, one for training and the other for tests.
In the first, participants had to learn to differentiate three different sounds , each corresponding to a certain result (the positive tone represented the possibility of making money, the negative of losing it and with the neutral nothing happened).
In the second part, the researchers implemented 15 different sounds and were asked to participants who pressed a key when they recognized any of the training phase; if they got it right, they made money, but if not, they would lose it .
Facing the risk of losing money , a reasonable strategy would have been to wait to press the key, taking in he says that most of the sounds would be new, but the anxious participants pressed it again and again , thinking that the tones had already heard them.The element of losing or earning money I had a strong emotional impression on them, which generated great anxiety .
While doing all this, the brains of all participants were scanned, and there were notable differences between the anxious and those who were not.They saw that the brains of anxious people showed greater activation in various parts, including the tonsil , the region where fear is processed.
In the tonsil there is a small group of" fearful "neurons, which send panic signals to any external signal, and although they are put in functioning for a justified cause, the danger is that neurons can lose their ability to discriminate threats, and anxiety disorder then occurs Generalized.
It is important to note that these people suffer a lot and find it really difficult to control their reactions, because it is a perceptual disability, brain changes that do not handle.If you suffer anxiety, it is best that you seek help.
We recommend that you read our article about what happens to your body when you feel stressed.
Images: Nikki McLeod, ASweeneyPhoto, J Slattum, NIH Image Gallery
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