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Anxiety

Anxiety is a set of emotions that precede a challenge, an expectation of an important episode or a risky or stressful situation.

These emotions are processed in our brain and generate a physical response to cope or escape from the situation to be faced in anticipation of stress.

The expectation can be related to a positive and desirable event or to prepare us for a dangerous or bad situation.

Anxiety is therefore a natural and fundamental mechanism for the success of the human species. In situations of facing challenges, this mechanism considerably increases the chances of success when it prepares us to do our best. In situations that are potentially dangerous, anxiety gives us the resources to be physically better and provides greater chances for success to escape or cope.

After the situation, our organism returns to normal. The physiological changes that have occurred to treat anxiety are again normalized. Realize that this mechanism is a biological process.

Since this mechanism is something natural and positive, we have to understand why it is normally associated with anxiety as something bad. The reason for this understanding lies in the fact that this biological system is complex and liable to fail when, due to various factors, it loses its balance and purpose, starting to harm us. In disequilibrium, we start to remain in this state even when we are not facing some real stressful moment.

Anxiety can harm the individual's life, taking on pathological proportions. In this case, it is characterized by feelings of danger and fear without a real threat, or without this threat being proportional to the intensity of the emotion.

Anxiety disorders:

  • Generalized anxiety disorder;

  • Panic disorder;

  • Agoraphobia;

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder;

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder;

  • Social phobia;

  • Specific phobias;

  • Acute stress food;

  • Adaptation disorder;

Known a little about anxiety we will understand it by the physiological aspect.

Academic work attesting to the effectiveness of Reflexology for the control of anxiety:

a) The effects of foot reflexology massage on anxiety in patients following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: A randomized controlled trial

Authors :

Masoumeh Bagheri-Nesami;

Seyed Afshin Shorofi;

Nahid Zargar;

Maryam Sohrabi;

Afshin Gholipour-Baradari and Alireza Khalilian.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2013.10.006

b) Effect of Foot Reflexology Intervention on Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Quality in Adults: A Meta-Analysis and Metaregression of Randomized Controlled Trials

TY - JOUR

PY - 09/20/20

JO - Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Authors :

Wang, Wei-Li

Hung, Hao-Yuan
Chen, Ying-Ren
Chen, Kuang-Huei
Yang, szu-nian
Chu, Chi-Ming
Yuan Yu, Chan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2654353


 

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