Anxious Therapy Clients at Disadvantage for Controlling Negative Emotions
February 13th, 2010
Experiencing panic attacks, feeling overwhelmed by the activities and thoughts of everyday life, and chronically worrying over things which may not pose any actual threat are all issues frequently associated with anxiety, and how the brain processes emotional content in people affected by anxiety is a central investigation for psychologists and other researchers. A team from Stanford University recently endeavored to explore this concept by examining clients’ abilities to process conflicting emotional cues. With the assistance of functional MRI technology, the team tested the ability of participants –some with anxiety symptoms, others without– to identify images of emotional expressions, some of which were superimposed with conflicting emotional words. Those with anxiety exhibited a poorer response time, suggesting that their mental control over emotional input is lower than those without anxiety.
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yes anxiety does not let you concentrate on the things at hand and increases the response time and also reduces the concentration levels…therefore it becomes very important to keep anxiety under check.
i have seen that some people are plainly more anxious than others…a few people can maintain their calm and cool even in the worst situations thinkable, am not talking about that but atleast being normally casual about things that do not require too much thought and attention is necessary…fretting overtly about a problem is not going to give us a solution, it is only going to make things worse.
Anxiety can affect your life in so many negative ways, but it is a double whammy to note that it may even affect how well you can allow someone to take care of you.
The therapy experience should be one that is soothing and helps you get some relief in your life, not something that will cause even more tension and anxiety in your day. But that is exactly what it sounds like some are prone to experience.
It would be interesting to study over a lifetime just how poorly those with anxiety perform in life versus those who do not have issues like this.
Well of course this is the case. That’s what anxiety does to you.
That makes sense. Usually, the anxiety attack creeps up with you before you have time to have a proper response. I know that sometimes the anticipation of a fight can trigger me to be unable to react in a calm, rational manner because before the fight begins, I’m already feeling the chest palpitations and other reactions common to an anxiety attack.
Anxiety can really sap you and take away the attention from the matter on hand. If there is a negative situation at hand and you are anxious, you keep fretting about the situation and will not be in a position to gain a solution for the problem at hand. This will only lead to furthering of the problem and thereby increasing the mental baggage.
It is a universal truth that individuals who are anxious in general suffer more because they are hinder themselves from looking beyond the obvious due to their own anxiety and this leads them to making wrong decisions and also to think a worry a lot more about the problems than the others.
Does the response time typically improve with the use of anti anxiety medications?
although they may be at a disadvantage while still being patients of anxious therapy, they are there in the first place to recover and will be much better and be less prone to any such issue after they are done with the therapy and the results of the therapy begin to take shape.
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