| The most common cause of anxiety and fear is from | | | | off between anxiety and performance, and increasing |
| stress, yet another word we hear a lot of these days. | | | | mental and physical performance is proportionate to |
| The feelings we feel when we are backed into a | | | | increasing anxiety levels in the body. However there |
| corner or threatened are anxiety and fear but | | | | becomes a point where increasing anxiety levels too |
| increasingly in today's world we do not always know | | | | far decreases physical and mental performance |
| WHY we feel threatened, is it instinctive fear or | | | | dramatically. We all need to have some fear but too |
| genetically induced fear. | | | | much fear and we just cannot perform. |
| Genetic fears are the ones we have inbred into us | | | | There is another problem that can make things |
| from birth about the fear of snakes, spiders or heights | | | | considerably worse too. The fact that anxiety can |
| for example and we can think up plausible reasons | | | | cause further anxiety and end up in a viscous circle. |
| why we should be scared of them. They can bite us | | | | The exam student who is so anxious that they cannot |
| or pass on diseases or kill us if we fall. | | | | revise then starts worrying about the exam and lack |
| An instinctive fear is one for example when a baby | | | | of revision which in turn makes them more anxious, |
| cries when it is away from its mother or with a | | | | then they start worrying about the outcome of the |
| stranger as being away from the mother is a threat to | | | | exam and get more anxious and simply waste more |
| the baby's existence and therefore it cries out to be | | | | time worrying about the exam and getting themselves |
| back with mum. | | | | so worked up over it, causing a viscous circle of |
| As we know it is quite normal to have some fear it is | | | | wasted time and worrying. |
| good for us and also a little bit of anxiety does | | | | Sometimes the timing of our anxiety seems to go to |
| sharpen our senses up and improves performance. | | | | pot, an example of this is where someone handles a |
| Top athletes often say they are anxious just before a | | | | traumatic event and copes very well with it like a |
| race and actors and actresses the same before going | | | | mass car accident where there are lots of bodies |
| on stage. This is good and it sharpens their senses up | | | | about and they seem to take control and nothing |
| and often they give their best performances. | | | | bothers them but hours and sometimes days later the |
| However, the problem arises with extreme fear and | | | | anxiety sets in causing distress. |
| extreme anxiety and this is not good. A good example | | | | It would seem then that genetics does play some part |
| of this is when sitting an exam, some students are so | | | | in anxiety and fear but so does instinct too and the |
| anxious and fearful of the exam they simply cannot | | | | fact that anxiety problems are so common in the U.K. |
| prepare properly for them and as a consequence do | | | | Being the most common psychological problem, more |
| appallingly in the exam,making their anxiousness even | | | | so than depression shows the extent to which our |
| worse. | | | | inbuilt mechanisms are finding it hard to deal with 21st |
| There are also instances where fear is so powerful it | | | | century problems. |
| makes you freeze. Heights being an obvious one, and | | | | Anxiety cause 14 people in 100 in the U.K to seek |
| your instinct here is to hold on or you will think that you | | | | treatment as it causes problems with their daily lives. It |
| will fall and possibly die. A great fear showing the | | | | is a big problem and one that needs to be taken |
| body's response to it. | | | | seriously in society. |
| To be at your best you have to have a sort of trade | | | | |