Classic Telltale Signs of Anticipatory Anxiety

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✨POV✨: With great anticipations come great anxiety. But how to tell if we're experiencing anticipatory anxiety?

What is anticipatory anxiety? 🧐

Anticipatory anxiety or feeling anxious about future outcomes is pretty standard.

But when our negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios about the future (or even daily life) fill us with intense fear and worry that numbs our capacity to function or even think - it becomes a mental health condition and affects our emotional wellness.

Signs of Anticipatory Anxiety symptoms 🥶

Our anxious thoughts or overwhelming fears about what will happen in the future can manifest in many ways.

And this anxiety and stress can stem from existing anxiety issues.

Here are some of the different types of anxiety and the signs of increased anxiety.

Generalized anxiety disorder - This is when anxiety is persistent in everyday life. Physical signs of this are restlessness, muscle tension, sleep loss, and racing heart.

Panic disorder and symptoms - when you experience anticipatory anxiety or negative thoughts about an upcoming event too intensely, it can cause a panic attack. Signs are chest pain, nausea, and breathlessness.

Social anxiety disorder and symptoms are when anxiety amplifies in social situations, leading you to avoid social events altogether. Some of the signs are fidgety, inability to focus on the present moment, preoccupied mind, and racing thoughts.

Tips to Feel Less Anxious and cope with anticipatory anxiety ✍🏼

We all need coping strategies when dealing with our symptoms and signs because these can even impact our health conditions.

Now you know why some people cancel last minute, complaining of stomach aches.

🤗 Talk to Yourself Like You Would a Friend

What's causing your anticipation?

What are your thoughts telling you about it?

Now, think of how you would comfort a friend going through this.

Use those words as self-encouragement.

👀 Find a Healthy Distraction

Whatever it feels like an unpredictable threat - break that anxious spiral with a healthy distraction. It can be a physical activity like a walk. It can be listening to soothing playlists to reduce your worry. Check out playlists curated to calm anxiety - you can start with being an app designed for our mental health.

It can also be a nap. Sleeping is a great way to reset our minds. So, make sure you get enough sleep.

💭 Turn Anxious Thoughts Into “Even If” Thoughts

Even if the future event may lead to a bad outcome, I will learn and rise above it.

My anxiety may fill me with negative expectancies; I will show self-compassion even then.

🧘🏽‍♂️ Try Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness helps us re-center ourselves.

It helps us be in the present.

Did you know that you can also access guided sessions like breathing and meditation with being? Check out: I want to make meditation a daily habit.

The bottom line 🥰

While it's okay to feel anxious about future events or tasks like an interpersonal task like a job interview, it should not fill us with fear to make our anxiety worse. But in the end, know that these are just false thoughts about negative outcomes that don't help with reducing anxiety.

You can overcome anticipatory anxiety with consistency and patience! Let being help you with all things anxiety - check out their mini guided sessions designed by mental health specialists to bring you to calm any time you need!

Have a great one!

Disclaimer

If you need guidance with your mental health issues or mental disorders like clinical anxiety disorders, specific phobias like social phobia, panic attacks, (or other anxiety disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder, aversive brain anticipation), seek mental health professional therapy or wellness professionals.

They have integrated neurobiological ways to reduce anxiety (and other mental health concerns or other mental health issues), like functional magnetic resonance imaging (to measure how stress affects blood flow), exposure therapy, and relaxation techniques like progressive muscle relaxation. You can read more about your disorders on relevant Healthline media websites and seek help from a therapist. The closest one is a google search away.