Living with Anxiety: Emotional Health

Hi Kate!
I'll try to leave you another comment-- I tried a little while ago but forgot to put my e-mail address so it didn't post.
This is a powerful article. For me, I can really see where my anxiety has slowed dowm my emotional growth. My therapist will tell me things in our sessions where I'll just reply, "Man! I wish I had known this stuff years ago!"
Simple things like how to stand up for myself when people are rude to me. How to say no rather than yes when I don't want to do something. All these little things that the anxiety has had so much control over my whole life -- I am just now learning to address.
Lady Delphinium-

I love when you write. Perspective shifts when we focus on the other areas we'd like to work on other than JUST the problem. I love how you've included the hierarchy of needs. Really I could call them hierarchy of WANTS. As I'm secure in one level I want to climb to the next. Unfortunately not always as easy as just finding a set of stairs.
The right support team, information (like your blog), & right meds give me the strength to start my climb up the hierarchy pyramid of needs and wants :)

Anxiety disorders are common emotional difficulties that had emblem up to date our life. Indeed, anxiety experiences burden inevitably everybody with nervous trouble. Therefore, anxiety has got its good side in parallel with its bad consequences. Without anxiety we would display ourselves to many life jeopardies, even we w'll feeling calm. Really anxiety is vanguard of every unexpected events that may harm seriously our global well-being. It is psychiatric entity when damages life functioning of respective patient. In this case it should treats at psychiatrist. But the successful treatment of anxiety depends from our meaningful understanding of these emotionally disturbances that affects us in any time and everywhere. It ought to manage our feelings through daily contradictions. Otherwise, we would fall victim of tremendous psychic sufferings.

I was wondering if you could speak to the legal rights a person has on a job, when they experience heightened anxiety. Recently I became aware of a person disclosing personal difficulties to supervisor, and was then questioned on his abilities to do his job or consider possibly looking at other options. As far as I am aware, there was no productivity problems, he was just found tearful, and experiencing an anxiety attack.
Thanks,
Chris

I can understand normal anxiety. { But those of us who have had an overload of bad experiences are changed, then there are brain chemicals, hormones and a polluted world.
We don't have normal anxiety, have you ever tried to do a normal everyday thing. I butter a bagel and my hands are shaking, my stomach l is full of butterflies I want to jump out of my skin. These are reactions from being scared, afraid.
I'm only making breakfast. Why do I feel this way?
I'm afraid of going out in public? Someone might want to enter act. So I don't go anywhere. This started a few days prior to Christmas.
My decline started about August of 2014. I didn't suffer like this before.
I work for the world's largest retailer. I have been in direct customer service since April 1998. I've been a manager, a leader, a teacher and the person in charge of a large project.
I was not afraid I flourished under pressure and solved problems.
I was not the best, but I know a lot.
Now I can not work, because I cannot will myself to go anywhere. Thank God for the Internet, and no it does not enable me not to try.
Meds are not totally helping.