This Woman Explains Anxiety With A Powerful Post

Anxiety is worrying about future events and fear is a reaction to current events.

About 12% of people are affected by an anxiety disorder in a given year and between 5-30% are affected at some point in their life.

They occur about twice as often in females as males, and generally, begin before the age of 25.

The most common are specific phobia which affects nearly 12% and social anxiety disorder which affects 10% at some point in their life. They affect those between the ages of 15 and 35 the most and become less common after the age of 55.

Brittany Nichole Morefield, makeup artist recently share her struggle with Anxiety on her facebook page.

She offers as just a few examples of the complex issues she fights through each day.

She seems happy, but like so many, she was struggling inside.

Morefield gives as just some examples of the advanced points.

Anxiety is often seen as a friendless debate, but Morefield blew the doors wide open on her suffer from this post.

The piece does, nonetheless, finish with a message of hope.

Her Facebook post has received more than 418 thousand shared.

Her honesty resonated with readers some users share their own stories.

One user wrote: "It's not frightening lone and not worthy of living."

"Its give me anxiety just to read about this. Its truly not fun and its even scary f its gets to a certain point," Another said.

Another thanked Morefield for sharing her battle with anxiety.

The cause of anxiety disorders is a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

Risk factors include a history of child abuse, family history of mental disorders, and poverty.

Anxiety disorders often occur with other mental disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, personality disorder, and substance use disorder

Other problems that may result in similar symptoms including hyperthyroidism; heart disease; caffeine, alcohol, or cannabis use; and withdrawal from certain drugs, among others.

Without treatment, anxiety disorders tend to remain.

Treatment may include lifestyle changes, counseling, and medications. Counselling is typical of a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Medications, such as antidepressants, benzodiazepines, or beta blockers, may improve symptoms

The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors drugs most commonly used to treat depression.

It's frequently considered as a first-line treatment for anxiety disorders.

If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Alliance on Mental Illness at 1-800-950-6264