Have you ever had an uneasy emotional experience at work or in your life? Remember the last time?
In psychology, anxiety refers to the anxiety and worrying emotions caused by invisible threats, negative predictions about the future, and uncertain futures. It can also be understood as “negative predictions about the future” causing unease.
What are the feelings of anxiety?
Psychologists believe that it includes the following three aspects:
One is the “uneasy about failure”, which is often derived from “it will not go well”, which is a concern for the future. negative predictions.
The second is for the “unknown anxiety”, which mainly stems from unpredictable prospects.
The third is for “loss of anxiety”, that is, worrying about losing jobs, jobs, money, love, friendship, health, and other tangible or intangible things that you value.
Anxiety is a very difficult negative emotion. Once it is too much, it will cause many problems. For example, this emotion cannot be controlled, and it will cause trouble to our work and life.
What are the signs of anxiety?
First of all, it will have a bad influence on thinking. Negative emotions will limit our vision and focus our attention on specific things. Once people become uneasy, they can only see bad things in their eyes, such as problems and risks in work, “one’s own future is dark”, etc.” catastrophic thinking”, which makes it difficult to make correct judgments.
Secondly, there will be a lack of self-confidence in action, reduced work efficiency, and “avoidance behavior” that avoids new challenges at work due to fear of failure.
Thirdly, long-term anxiety can have a serious impact on mental health, such as unrecoverable fatigue, headaches, sleep disturbances and other problems.
Uneasy emotions also have positive functions
People who are good at “taming” disturbed emotions can understand the two sides of this emotion, and then achieve the application of work and life. the purpose of exerting its positive effect on the disturbed emotions.
In general, anxiety has three functions. The first function is the “alarm function”. Anxiety can make us aware of problems and risks that are easily overlooked due to busyness; the second function is to promote positive actions.” Motivation function”, anxiety can arouse enthusiasm for positive action to a certain extent, and will force oneself to devote more energy to work; the third function is “push function”, anxiety can promote oneself even if you feel at risk, face it up Challenge, take a courageous step.
Therefore, anxiety is not entirely a bad thing, the key lies in how to get along with it, as long as you master the skills and avoid being dominated, you can still “tame” anxiety, even if you can’t drive it away from your heart, It can also coexist harmoniously.
How to control anxiety?
For negative emotions such as anxiety, it is necessary to be aware, face it and accept it, that is, adopt the strategy of “don’t resist, accept”.
It is necessary to correct the cause of emotion – “distorted cognition”: Many times, the reason why negative emotions such as anxiety arise is because our cognition is stimulated by events such as stress and failure, The process of “stress-distorted cognition-emotion” is instantaneous, often before we realize it, and it takes knowledge and training to be aware of it.
Appropriately “discharge” stubborn negativity: If you feel uneasy, try to shift your attention from the uneasy to other things. By focusing on other things, the “rumination” of negative emotions will gradually weaken , and finally reached a level of calm and calm.
This article is scientifically checked by Sang Hong, chief physician of Changchun Sixth Hospital.