2023-05-07 18:16:00
Anxiety is one of the conditions of mental health most common around the world. It is a natural response of the body to stressful situations or events, but when it becomes chronic or excessive it has a significant impact on a person’s life, the most extreme being suicide.
Experts in the field of mental health point out that anxiety manifests itself in different waysincluding physical symptoms such as sweating, palpitations, tremors, and muscle tension, as well as emotional symptoms such as worry, fear, or panic.
They also describe it as a feeling of concern or nervousness that may be difficult to control.
Tarek William Saab, attorney general appointed by the Constituent Assembly, recently reported on the suicide of Leoner Azuajeformer president of the public company Cartones de Venezuela and leader of the government party, arrested on April 19, for alleged acts of corruption.
Saab reported in a tweet thread published on April 20 that the man had committed suicide inside his cell in El Helicoide for having anxiety problems.
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“Interview with the psychologist treating the deceased: where it is confirmed that he himself was a patient with disorders and signs of attack of anxiety”, said the prosecutor after publishing the results of the Azuaje autopsy.
There were many reactions after Azuaje’s death, but experts in the psychological area point out that a person with an anxiety disorder could commit suicide.
The clinical and social psychologist, Yorelis Acosta, In an interview with Efecto Cocuyo, he explains that there are studies that indicate that depression and anxiety are the two disorders that are most correlated with suicidal behaviors.
“Experiencing anxiety as a state of very intense physiological and emotional activation for a long period of time will increase the chances of developing health problems of chronic exhaustion and exhaustion and also of depression and appearance of intense negative thoughts, recurring thoughts with suicidal ideation”, he exposes.
Kevin González, a clinical psychologist, agrees with Acosta. For the mental health expert, anxiety may be associated with a increased risk of suicide but he emphasizes that it must be taken into account that in the end suicidal ideation corresponds in a certain way to a multifactorial consequence.
“It depends on those protective factors that we have in our daily life and those risk factors that may be present and to a certain extent when there are more risk factors than protective ones, then the probability that a person thinks about suicide is higher”, he assures.
González explains protective factors, such as having a safe space where to talk, have friends who support us, have basic needs covered or protected in a certain way.
It details that the risk factors that could be considered in a person with suicidal ideation could be violent parents in childhood, lack of love, mistreatment in different environments.
González points out that if the risk factors are usually superiors to those of protection people could think about the suicide like an escape situation.
“It is possible for a person with anxiety to experience suicidal thoughts even while you are in a treatment. You also have to take into account what types of treatment, if it is a psychiatric treatment or if it is psychotherapeutic, if it is treatment with non-conventional medicine ”, he adds.
How anxiety is diagnosed
ACosta explains that there are several protocols to diagnose a person with anxiety disorder. The most complete is to start conducting a very detailed clinical interview where the expert can explore if there are organic factors, if there are medical illnesses or if there is a family history.
“We are ruling out that organic factor, knowing if the person also consumes some type of medicine o drugs that can trigger this anxiety disorder, techniques and tests can be used to make a much more accurate diagnosis of the patient. It is also important to determine, in addition to these biological and psychological factors, if there are social factors that are precipitating or predisposing or triggering these symptoms that the anxious patient presents ”, he points out.
Kevin González expresses that all human beings by nature and genetics have anxietyFor the expert, anxiety is a feeling and is part of the emotional repertoire.
“In the end this is a emotionWhat is usually done is that it is diagnosed in a certain way. When a person has an anxiety disorder, it ends up complicating different areas, different dimensions of a person’s life in a certain way”, he indicates.
anxiety levels
Lhe clinical psychologist Yorelis Acosta lists the levels of anxiety that a person might experience.
???? Mild anxiety, which is associated with daily and it is very common in people who are on alert in the face of daily demands. “Don’t limit yourself, you are doing your daily activities, but with a system with minimal physiological alteration”, he indicates.
????Moderate anxietyusually have more symptoms intense.
????Serious anxiety, where the person sits more upset and there is a more intense set of symptoms.
“We will have heard that the panic attack It is a form of anxiety, agoraphobia, all phobias are also within this classification of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, and there is substance-induced anxiety, ”he adds.
The consequences of having anxiety
For psychologist Kevin González, the consequences of having anxiety can be miscellaneous and it is important to emphasize on examining the case by case, because no anxiety is the same as another.
Explain that types of anxiety will always have particularities depending on the person, but it must be taken into account that it has an impact on both mental and physical health.
“There is something essential to keep in mind. body and mind are connected In a certain way, what happens at the physical level is reflected at the mental level and vice versa, thoughts, emotions and fears have a correlation at the level of what happens in the body, so this emphasis is important to do because in the end, as they I say like any person suffers from anxiety ”, he indicates.
González points out that a person with anxiety can have any of the alterations that can be present without being so serious as to incapacitate the person. The psychologist gives as an example, some tosleep disturbances, gastrointestinal problems or decreased immune system.
The mental health expert adds that there may be deterioration in interpersonal relationships, decreased work or academic performance and, of course, the development of other traits or characteristics that may be associated with other mental disorders.
“Anxiety is often correlated with some components or characteristics depressive, So to speak. Feelings of sadness or feelings of fear, of hopelessness are also very present when talking about anxiety”.
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