A trip to the unknown

What in life are you most scared or worried about? Is it the outcome of a job interview or how your child will progress in school and life as a whole?

It all boils down to the same! We as a human being are most scared or worried of the unknown! 

I have sat and fault to myself more then once, many a times in fact, Once I have got past this or that I will be able to relax and not have anything left to worry about. But come on how true is this statement? Not very true! Why? Because life it's self is a worry! Its just how we manage to deal with these worries of everyday life. We can chose to let them get deep inside our heads making us sick with the unknown or we can chose to take each day as it comes. What kind of person are you?

Once you let to much in then that's when things change! That's when you see the world in a different way. That's when your at major risk of developing an Anxiety disorder. I'm not suggesting you go along life not worrying about a thing because not doing this would cause you to develop such a disorder. I'm just saying that once you start to ponder on the unknown in an obsessive way that's when you can be pretty much sure mental health problems are on the way. Stress and anxiety are hard to deal with, but how we deal with it is the key. It's very easy for me to sit here writing this post, but for me it is hard to put my own words in to actions. As a person that does not deal with anxiety in the best of ways I know how out of control Anxiety disorders can really become.

I spent many years battling the condition OCD. A condition that still bears it's big ugly head at times. There are two major subcategories of anxiety disorders: Phobic disorders and anxiety states. Well I seem to fall into the later, anxiety states covers's disorders such as panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder. I'm unsure about post traumatic stress disorder, but OCD and panic disorder I can relate to on a number of levels having suffered both of them. Physiological arousal and free-floating anxiety are something that come with each and everyone of them disorders, and that is what makes them so hard to deal with and over come. For the people that don't know what I'm blurting on about, Psychological arousal is when there maybe changes in the heart rate, respiration, muscle tension, dizziness, tension, tremor, sweating and shaking, felling of wanting to be sick or being unable to sallow. Free-floating is the same as the above but with one added difference! The felling of not knowing why this is happening ( An intense apprehension with-out reason) If you explained these symptoms to a doctor I'm guessing you would be told that you had experienced a panic attack and it was likely due to some sort of anxiety disorder. I used to fell a complete prat once I understood what in fact was occurring. It got to the stage where I knew that yes this was a panic attack I was having and yes it would pass, but at the same time I still wanted to get help as I was sure I was dieing. The first panic attack is one of the worse as you really do think you are having a heart attack! Mine started as I fault I was unable to sallow and my airways were closing. Silly you may think. Try living through one then say that's silly. I have passed out three times due to panic attacks, although there much more under control now, they still pop up and say hello now and then.

Most of the time when I'm stressed out.

So there is just a small handful of reasons not to ponder on the unknown!

And as i have said before, I was just 7 when OCD took over my childhood. 

For more info on anxiety within children you can read my blog A boy with Asperger's