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✨POV✨: Is there a way to cancel giving presentations and talks? Asking for a friend (not).
What is anticipatory anxiety? 🧐
It's one thing to feel fleeting anxiety, for example, before a presentation, but it's a whole other experience to feel it at max debilitating levels.
Experiencing anticipatory anxiety amplifies our fear, overwhelms us with anxious thoughts about future events (read: future threat), and can rob us of being in the present moment.
And what makes this anxiety worse than just negative expectancies?
It can be persistent and can impact your work life.
This is when it becomes a mental health condition.
Anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms 🥶
To begin with, when our negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios about the future or upcoming event (or even daily life) fill us with stress and worry that numbs our capacity to function or even think - this is when it's an anxiety disorder.
Your anticipatory anxiety symptoms may stem from one of these underlying anxiety disorders.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): This is when you experience underlying anxiety throughout the day. You also experience restlessness, muscle tension, and lack of focus or concentration.
Panic disorder: Anticipatory anxiety stemming from panic disorder leads to intense fear and panic attacks. A panic attack is when negative thoughts about what feels like an unpredictable threat lead to chest pain, nausea, and a racing heart. You also experience sweaty palms, and your overwhelming fears cause you to worry out of control.
Social anxiety disorder is when social situations cause intense fear, leading you to avoid social events altogether. You’re afraid about people's judgment, and it gives you heightened anxiety.
How to keep anticipatory anxiety before a work presentation at bay 🤔
These are coping strategies for the next time you experience anticipatory anxiety and stress. But know what works best for your concern and day-to-day life; we're all wired differently.
☕️ Stay away from caffeine
Did you know caffeine can make you jittery and can escalate your mind's anticipatory processing?
Switch to decaf, especially before your presentations or talks.
🧘🏽♂️ Indulge in calming activities
It can be a physical activity for some. It can just be lying on the couch listening to a soothing playlist for others.
Indulge in anything that can keep your mind from that event or anything that's to happen in the future—no more brain space to cook up the worst-case scenario.
🕰 Rest well
A common symptom of increased anxiety is not getting enough sleep.
Did you know sleep loss can also lead to declining emotional wellness?
The next time you're up in bed with an anxious thought about work, check out this mini guided session on being - I want to release the stress from my body before sleep.
To conclude 🤗
Whether it is the presentation stressing you out or an interpersonal task like a one-on-one review or a job interview that makes you feel anxious, you can overcome it with patience and consistency.
If work and its responsibilities give you anxious thoughts beyond what you can take, visit a mental health specialist. In the interim, keep checking out the mini therapies they designed on being - even right before your big presentation!
You may enjoy this too: Anticipatory Anxiety - Why You Worry About Things that Haven't Happened Yet
Disclaimer
If you need guidance with your mental disorders or other mental health issues like clinical anxiety, stress disorder, aversive brain anticipation, other anxiety disorders, and specific phobias, seek mental health professional therapy or wellness professionals.
They have integrated neurobiological ways for reducing anxiety, like functional magnetic resonance imaging (to measure how stress affects blood flow), progressive muscle relaxation, exposure therapy, and other relaxation techniques for all mental health concerns. You can seek professional help from a therapist. The closest one is a google search away.
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