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Anti-anxiety

Anti-anxiety. Jordan Aquino. What is Anxiety?. A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning. Signs of Anxiety Body: Fatigue

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Anti-anxiety

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  1. Anti-anxiety Jordan Aquino

  2. What is Anxiety? • A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.Signs of Anxiety • Body: Fatigue • Behavioral: Irritability • Cognitive: Racing thoughts

  3. How Does Anxiety Work? • In order for anxiety to kick, there must be a stimuli for what that is (past experience). • The level of anxiety depends on the channel for encoding information for action potential register in cognition for input in the short-term memory of action. • If an action is repeated, the action is store in the long-term for recall. The recall of action of an event becomes the habit use to respond. • Next time if you are worry do not ignore it, it the sensation for unknown event. An ignored anxiety results in fear or paranoia

  4. Anxiety in the Body • Your body senses a threat • Signals to the Amygdala • Alerts other parts of brain such as the Hippocampus • Results in: sweat, rapid heart beat, increased blood pressure

  5. How Does Anti-Anxiety Help? • Anxiolytics • It works by slowing down the nervous system, helping you relax both physically and mentally. But it can also lead to unwanted side effects such as drowsiness, slurred speech, trouble concentration, and more. • Common Drugs: SSRI and Benzodiazepine

  6. SSRI • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors • SSRIs ease depression/anxiety by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain. • Serotonin is one of the neurotransmitters that carry signals between brain cells and is responsible for emotion and motor skill. • SSRIs block the reuptake of serotonin in the brain, making more serotonin available. • SSRIs are called selective because they seem to primarily affect serotonin, not other neurotransmitters.

  7. SSRI in the Body

  8. Benzodiazepine in the Body • The benzodiazepines operate widely in the brain, affecting emotional reactions, memory, thinking, control of consciousness, muscle tone and coordination. The benzodiazepines enhance the actions of the neurotransmitter, Gamma Amino Butyric Acid. They are released from brain cells by electrical signals. Once released, the neurotransmitters signal inhibition or excitation of neighboring brain cells.

  9. Benzodiazepine in the Body

  10. GABA • Gamma-Amino Butyric acid (GABA) is an amino acid which acts as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. • Responsible for reducing the activity of neurons that cause stress and anxiety. • It inhibits nerve transmission in the brain, calming nervous activity. • The idea of benzos increases GABA activity so more nerves become suppressed, leading to fewer feelings of anxiety and more feelings of calm and sedation .

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