Personal Statement: The Effects Of Anxiety

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Anxiety is a serious condition which can have many effects on the victim or patient. Some of the effects will be with the affected individual(s) for a long time. Personally, I have anxiety attacks on a daily basis, I tend to remember everything that has gone wrong in my life thus far leading to a sense of dread, and all of these factor into my phobias. Example thesis statement: The effects of anxiety are different to many people, with different types of anxiety and different levels of such. Effects that are most common tend to be the worst for people with anxiety which is why each needs to be understood by more people.

One of the biggest effects of my anxiety are the fears it has given to me over the years.“Fears are often reinforced by the negative (and often unrealistic) way that people experiencing mental health problems are shown on TV, in films and by the media,”( Mind). Fears, or phobias, to specific things such as being out in the open, are an effect of an anxiety disorder. For myself, I essentially have a phobia to being scared and having others judge me for it. In my mind, I know that it isn’t a logical fear, but when I'm scared I start to cry and when that happens, the others around me start to laugh and think that that’s okay. For …show more content…

“Patients can feel as though they have the feeling of dread when confronted with social situations, or even when they leave their homes,” (Adriana C). Whenever I start to feel a sense of dread, I start to slowly get worse and worse until I can get the strength to pull myself back out of the depression-state I go into. Sensing dread is not only a sadness, but it turns their personality inside-out so that the patient is no longer the same person. The sense of dread I feel in any situation is so bad that I have a hard time ever coming out of it and I can’t remember the good times with the people I care so much about at