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Anxiety disorders are varied and include things like social anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias. Millions of people around the world are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder during their lifetimes, and so many are looking for answers as to what has caused this medical condition, which can be quite serious. The title here may be misleading, because there really is no one cause of anxiety disorders. You may have an anxiety disorder for any number of reasons, or a combination of reasons. In order to learn more about your condition and try to pin point its cause, here are a few of the things that play into the development of an anxiety disorder.

First and foremost, many people want to know if anxiety disorders are genetic and can be passed on to future generations. Studies show that this may be the case. If a parent has an anxiety disorder, there is a chance that you may get this disorder as well. However, family factors may play a role in this as well. When you are raised in a household in which someone has an anxiety disorder, you are essentially taught these panic behaviors as well. Phobias are especially common to be passed to other family members. Insure relationships with parents may also cause anxiety disorders later in life. In short, this may be partially due to genetics, but also has something to do with your childhood environment as well.

Other environmental experiences outside of your childhood living conditions play into the development for anxiety disorders as well. If you have a traumatizing event as a child, or even as an adult, that even could either stay with you, causing post-traumatic stress disorder, or could affect your thinking, causing other types of anxiety disorders. Social pressures and culture may play a role in this as well, teaching people to become anxious at certain times or fearful of certain things.

An anxiety disorder may also be the result of health factors not related to genetics. Phobias and other anxiety disorders sometimes develop due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, especially with the chemical serotonin, which also affects depression in some people. Evolution comes into play, because you automatically have a fight-or-flight system built into our brains. The foods we eat, amount we exercise, and sleep we get every night all play roles into how our brain functions.

Lastly, anxiety disorders may develop due to stress. When you are stressed about something, you may find that you slow start to wear out. While our bodies are built to handle certain amounts of stress, over time, this simply breaks down and we give in to anxiety, which can develop into an anxiety disorder. No matter what the reason, however, it is simply important that you ask for help dealing with your condition.

Do you have intense feelings of discomfort and fear when in social situations? You may have social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder affects millions of people around the world and varies greatly from person to person. However, it is important to know that if you find social settings unbearable, you can get help. A doctor will be able to help you treat your social anxiety disorder so that you can live a normal life instead of being paralyzed by fear.

It’s hard to pin down the exact symptoms of social anxiety disorder, which is why seeing your doctor is so important. However, some common signs that you may have this disorder include a number of fears. Do you commonly fear social situations? You should see your doctor if your fears reflect the following: fear that all attention is on you, fear of making mistakes, fear of judgment, fear that everyone is better than you, fear of humiliating yourself, or fear that everyone sees your flaws. These fears may or may not cause panic attacks, but always cause intense anxiety. Anxiety may lead to shaking, a pounding heart, blushing, sweating, stammering, nausea, and dizziness.

Shyness is not the same as social anxiety disorder. While you may feel shy in certain situations, social anxiety disorder is physically debilitating to a person experiencing it. In fact, social anxiety disorder may take over a person’s life if left untreated. This disorder usually starts from childhood or early adulthood and can affect everyone, regardless of race, religion, or gender, although women are more likely to develop this disorder than men.

Social anxiety disorder is often found in conjunction with other anxiety disorders. It is also common for a person with social anxiety disorder to try to treat it using drugs or alcohol, which will in turn lead to substance abuse.

The best and only way to treat social anxiety disorder is to see your doctor. Therapy and medication can help you work through this disorder so that you can live a healthy and socially active life. Cognitive-behavioral therapy will help you grip your disorder so that you can learn how to make yourself calm down and have less fear in social situations. Medications can be short or long term are can work to block certain inhibitors.

Together, you can your doctor can find the perfect treatment for you so that you can take back control of your life. You may have to live with social anxiety disorder for the rest of your life, but it does not have to stop you from being happy.

Some are born with the ability to motivate other people.

The sad thing is that most people are constantly seeking to be like others, in order to feel good about who they are. Some people ignore their gifts and talents just because it’s not yet refined.

Have you ever seen a DIAMOND in it’s original state before it get gets refined?

An unrefined Diamond does not really look attractive. It has rough edges and no one really wants it based on how it looks. However once it has gone through the fire and as been refined, everybody wants a piece.

Some will borrow money, go into their overdraft and some will steal to get it because all of a sudden they can NOW see the value.

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The Texas Academy of Performing Arts in Amarillo is stressing the importance of self confidence.

It’s a problem that people of all ages, shapes, and sizes struggle to deal with.

That’s why TAPA is having fashion shows to teach the community that showing off your talents and believing in yourself can help shape and mold you into a stronger person.

In a society where self-esteem is threatened every day, having a way to express yourself can be life-changing.

“It brings out their personality and it lets them feel good about something that they can do and do well,” says Carol Henderson, TAPA.

This month there will be a show held at each of the Walmart locations in Amarillo.

TAPA hopes many people in our community will take part.

“We want little kids, grown people, elderly, a lot of mother daughter, and we’ve even had grandmother, mother, daughter do it and sons, men and women,” says Carol Henderson, TAPA.

Participants get to choose what they wear and are given a 15-percent discount on those items.

“They will get some training; be shown how to stand, how to walk. They’ll practice a little bit and all of this is done at Walmart in the back. So they will go out knowing what to do and they’ll have instructions they’ll take home,” says Carol Henderson, TAPA.

They are also shown how to present themselves to the public and in social settings.

“Every time you can face your fears in life, of any kind, it makes you a better person.

Tickets to participate in the show are ten dollars and a big portion of the sales goes to March of Dimes.

“Every donation, every person that’s involved makes an actual tangible difference and so we really appreciate everything that’s done for the March of Dimes,” says Drew Perkins, March of Dimes.

For those who are interested, the first training session is this Tuesday and then the first show will be held on Saturday at the Grand Street location.

They seem a bit quiet, and you ask if everything is all right.

They say that everything is fine. Do you believe them?

Or, do you think, “He/ she is unhappy with me.”

It is very common and normal to try and guess what other people are thinking. Psychologists call it mind reading. However, when most of these guesses are negative — when you assume that others are often thinking negatively of you — it can affect your mental well-being.

My colleagues and I evaluated how frequently university students engage in mind reading and found that in social/interpersonal situations (i.e., with friends, family and romantic partners), it is a fairly common thought process (1).

The ability to understand what other people are thinking is a helpful tool. It is part of your social skill repertoire. Most of us have met people who just don’t seem able to accurately read what others think, and the consequences of this social skills deficit can besevere (e.g. being disliked or excluded).

However, the determining factor in whether mind reading is healthy and adaptive or unhealthy and dysfunctional is accuracy. There are basically two types of accuracy errors that cause problems.

The first is being unable to accurately recognize when others are upset or unhappy with you. This can lead to being considered unlikeable and socially isolated. For example, if you are terrible at telling jokes and are sometimes even offensive, yet cannot recognize this reaction in others, then you are probably going to pay the social cost (e.g. not being invited to parties).

The second type of inaccuracy is assuming that another person is thinking negatively about you, when in fact they are not. This type of mind reading error is very common among people with depression, anxiety and low self-esteem. In fact, my colleagues and I found a relationship between mind reading and depression and anxiety symptoms among university students.

This makes complete sense — why wouldn’t you feel sad or anxious if you honestly believed that other people were often thinking negative thoughts about you?

Mind reading causes problems across all kinds of relationships. From colleagues at work to your spouse, when you spend significant parts of you daily interactions dealing with these negative thoughts, it can affect not only your emotions (e.g. depression and anxiety), but also your behaviour (e.g. wanting to avoid interactions or constant reassurance-seeking).

The key to fixing a problem with mind reading is improving your ability to be accurate. This means evaluating social information more effectively and in an unbiased fashion.

This is where professional therapy can be helpful. A good psychologist (particularly those specializing in CBT) should be able to help with accuracy (and not just offer positive feedback). If there is a social skills problem, it should be identified and fixed. Similarly, if the problem is seeing negative evaluation when there isn’t any, there should be a change in the way you analyse people, social situations and yourself.

1. Covin et al. (2011). Measuring cognitive errors: Initial developmental of the Cognitive Distortions Scale (CDS). International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 4, 298-322.

Mindset.

The way you think will dictate the results you produce. When ever you refuse to accept new information or whenever you find yourself self saying “It’s not possible” please remember the following

“The thinking that guides your intelligence is far more important than your intelligence”

What usually hold people back is not what they don’t know, but what they do know that won’t allow them to think anything different