Axiom: no one can avoid stress. But still, we try to escape from stress in different ways - attend trainings, reduce social contacts, or even literally withdraw into ourselves. Some try to minimize its consequences: some drown out the “stressful” aftertaste with alcohol, others resort to healthier methods - sports, yoga, psychotherapy, holotropic breathing... Some help more, others act like a placebo, alcohol - on the contrary, it aggravates the effects of stress, but none of these practices is able to provide reliable protection to our nerve cells.
Unfortunately, our psyche and nervous system are not so easy to control. And stress cannot be suppressed or eliminated by willpower - the whole point is that the development of a response to stress is based on subtle biochemical processes that regulate human nervous activity. So even the most skillful “56th level” yoga is not able to influence them. At the same time, it is important to understand the consequences of stress and its negative impact on the nervous system, in particular on the brain. So what happens to our nerve cells under stress?
Neuron death
To answer this question correctly, you will have to take a short excursion into the biochemistry of the brain. In case of stress, our adrenal glands release the corresponding hormones - adrenaline and cortisol. However, in addition to them, the excitatory amino acid glutamate is synthesized directly in the brain tissue. Glutamate is responsible for activating nerve cells, preparing them for intense exercise - this is a typical reaction to stress. But with severe or chronic stress, this process gets out of control, and excessive functional activity is detrimental to nerve cells. In fact, overexcitation disrupts the transmission of nerve impulses, negatively affects the functioning of neurons and leads to their death. Glutamate also negatively affects the brain's ability to recover to a resting state.
"Emergency"
However, for every action there is a reaction, and this rule also applies to biochemical processes in our body. The human brain is equipped with a natural defense against stress: GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is a biogenic substance, the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter of the human central nervous system. When GABA is released, the corresponding ion channels are activated, which ultimately leads to inhibition of the nerve impulse. Simply put, GABA dampens the “hysterical” activity of nerve cells.
The role of this amino acid as an inhibitory mediator of the central nervous system can hardly be overestimated: it has been established that GABA normalizes nervous processes in the brain, relieves stress and anxiety and at the same time accelerates thinking, memory, and has a mild psychostimulating effect. GABA is also directly involved in brain metabolism - it is responsible for providing nutrition and restoration of brain cells, promotes the absorption of glucose, and increases resistance to oxygen starvation. GABA actually revives nerve cells that have been damaged by stress.
Stress vs GABA: who wins?
Stress destroys GABA. When a person is in a state of chronic stress, the GABA resources in the body are very quickly depleted. This means that the brain, due to the lack of GABA, will be damaged more and more, and the amino acid itself will become less and less... And if you do not want to surrender to overstrain, anxiety, and also think about the destructive consequences of stress, then... this terrible vicious circle must be stopped.
Good news: the increasing deficiency of this important neurotransmitter of the central nervous system can be corrected by taking appropriate drugs based on gamma-aminobutyric acid. This allows you to restore the natural balance between excitation and inhibition at the cellular level, effectively eliminate stress, create conditions for the restoration of cells of the nervous system, and increase the stability and efficiency of the entire nervous system. By eliminating GABA deficiency, we not only help the body cope with stress without consequences, but also restore neurons damaged by stress.
It would seem that everything is simple, but here one obstacle arises. The fact is that there is a problem with the delivery of gamma-aminobutyric acid to brain cells. The “naked” GABA molecule penetrates neurons poorly, is insufficiently absorbed and does not solve the problem of replenishing GABA deficiency. However, pharmacists managed to combine GABA and the natural metabolite of nervous tissue phenylethylamine in one molecule. The created tandem is perfectly absorbed by nerve cells and solves the problem of GABA deficiency and, in fact, eliminating the severe consequences of stress.
How to relieve stress? Replenish GABA!
Now we know the answer to this question and a remedy for eliminating stress and anxiety. We are talking about a drug that contains an effective tandem of GABA + phenylethylamine. Due to its high bioavailability, Quattrex has a pronounced anti-stress effect. At the mental level, it relieves stress, eliminates anxiety, nervousness, calms, without causing lethargy characteristic of sedatives. At the biochemical level, it smoothes out all the negative effects of stress on the nervous system.
A person constantly experiences some kind of emotion. Without them, he would not have been able to even take a step, they play such an important role in our lives. They can be different: both negative and positive. Some are able to control them, while others are constantly nervous and worried, not trying to change this behavior. But this is a completely unreasonable attitude towards yourself and your health. Because the habit of being nervous, even when there seems to be a reason for it, does not help to deal with a difficult situation, but only aggravates an already difficult situation. Besides this, there are many more reasons why, for your own good, you shouldn’t be nervous about whatever happens.
Why you shouldn't be nervous often
It is impossible to live life without shocks, troubles and joyful events. But if pleasant moments are worth experiencing, unpleasant ones clearly do not deserve to waste not only your time, but also your nerves.
But unlearning being constantly nervous is not so easy. You can't do this without serious motivation. The fact is that changing a person’s behavior pattern is a difficult task, because it takes years to develop. And it’s very difficult to take it and change it in an instant. No one is able to change if he does not understand why it is necessary, what benefit he will receive from it, what he will be saved from and get rid of. No matter how strong his desire and conviction that it will work out, he will not find the strength to overcome all the difficulties that stand in his way. Even if in a short time he manages to develop several correct habits, such as doing exclusively what he likes, no matter how strange and scary it may sound.
Therefore, before changing your usual way of life, you need to understand, realize and remember in advance what you are saving yourself from by deciding to treat what is happening differently.
Overreacting to troubles causes a host of health problems. First of all, this deals a crushing blow to the nervous system, which often becomes the very cause of a lot of psychosomatic problems and leads to various diseases, ranging from allergies, which can become chronic and turn into eczema, and ending with vegetative-vascular dystonia, which almost untreatable. In general, there is an opinion that the impetus for the development of any disease is nervous tension. So it is impossible to predict what the next nervous shock will lead to. But obviously not good. And over the years the situation gets worse.
True, the opinion that stress always poses a threat to the body is quite controversial. According to the scientist Selye, who studied the nature of stress, it is not stress itself that has a negative impact, but distress—stress that continues for quite a long time. It doesn’t matter at all whether it is caused by positive emotions or negative ones. It is very important to avoid prolonged tension. It is important to do everything to get rid of it as soon as it arises, by playing sports, listening to music, simply relaxing, or by solving the problem that gave rise to its appearance. You urgently need to distract yourself, do what you love, create an atmosphere of calm, coziness and comfort.
It is not so dangerous to experience joy or sorrow for a short period of time, so you should not try to be a person who does not react to anything at all. Breaking yourself and turning into a soulless robot can in itself cause a lot of health and mental problems.
Any experiences to which an adequate response does not immediately arise become the cause of internal worries and tension. When an annoying situation arises, it is very important to respond to it in such a way that it does not leave any negativity behind. No matter how traumatic it is, you must either accept it as a given and adjust your behavior, or do everything to fight back, get rid of what frightens, hurts, upsets, offends or irritates.
Tolerate, reconcile, or pretend that nothing happened, but in your soul continue to feel resentment, guilt, fear, a desire for revenge - this is the first step towards neurosis and a huge list of diseases that arise in neurotics. Diseases of the cardiovascular system, blood pressure, problems with the digestive tract, muscle pain - this is just a small list of what awaits those who still do not understand why one should not be nervous often.
Pregnant women should not worry, as this will negatively affect the unborn child. This not only harms his health and interferes with his full development, but can also transmit excessive anxiety to him and make him a nervous and restless child.
For healthy people, the habit of worrying rather than solving the problem that has arisen, over time, threatens with a mandatory visit to a cardiologist, therapist and neurologist, and these are just a few specialists who will have to be visited in order to return to a normal lifestyle with the help of medications, or even stay alive. Even if at the moment you do not feel any health problems and are deeply convinced that you should not be nervous about those who already suffer from hypertension, have suffered a heart attack or stroke, think about it, but they were healthy before, it is unlikely that these are their chronic diseases. Why did they buy them?
Why is it bad to be nervous?
In addition to the danger to health, constant tension, feelings of anxiety, prolonged worries, and an overly emotional reaction to what is happening creates additional problems to those that already exist.
When faced with unpleasant events, in a difficult situation, or offended by someone for something they did or said, people become completely immersed in their emotions. And they lose the energy and self-control necessary to make the right decisions. Instead of immediately reacting to what happened, doing as their soul tells them, they try to find the best solution to the problem, not taking into account that their reaction already suggests it. But, without listening to her, they try to act as their inner fears tell them.
When a boss is rude, few people tell him that they are uncomfortable with such attitude. On the contrary, in order to convince themselves to remain silent and not react the way they want, everyone begins to remember that they will lose their job, income, and they have a family, loans, utility bills, dreams, etc.
But they do not understand that although this may be true, and it is indeed better to remain silent rather than give a civilized rebuff, the anger remains inside. After all, you can get rid of him only by accepting as a fact that their financial security is possible only with this boss. And no longer allow his offensive behavior into your soul, realizing that he is a deeply unhappy person and his words should simply be ignored.
Similar behavior, when people do not want to fight those who, in their opinion, offend them, without taking for granted that thanks to unpleasant emotions they have the financial status that such an unpleasant job or marriage gives them, leads to the emergence of neuroses, and in advanced cases, to depression, from which it is very difficult to get out.
When a person ignores the small arsenal he has for solving emerging problems and tries to sit on two chairs at once, he dooms himself to a miserable existence. Nature has given us only two ways out. The first is to accept the situation. Don't put up with it, be patient, waiting for it to end. Namely, accept, like the sunrise and sunset, as something that exists and cannot be changed. And the second is to fight and defeat the enemy, eliminate from life what causes negative emotions, so as not to encounter it again or know in advance how to react in order to minimize the consequences.
Whether you want it or not, you will have to make this choice so as not to be nervous anymore, not to experience anger, resentment, fear, irritation, anxiety, nervous tension, lack of self-confidence or self-confidence. Otherwise, emotional and professional burnout, chronic fatigue, asthenia, neuroses and, as a result, depression, which requires medication under the supervision of a psychiatrist and quite possibly in a hospital, are just around the corner.
Emotions, undoubtedly, will not disappear anywhere; they are an integral part of a person, an indicator of his attitude to what is happening to him and around him. But when a person is used to constantly experiencing negative feelings that make him nervous, he risks earning himself a whole bunch of diseases. After all, no matter how familiar it may sound, the aphorism that “All diseases come from nerves” very accurately describes the cause of the most dangerous diseases. And awareness of this should become the motivation that will allow you to become more balanced and calm, and learn to avoid irritants.
Any manifestation of the external and internal world finds a response in a person in the form of emotions. From what they are emotions, negative or positive Whether we are strong or not, our health directly depends. This article is about the signs of nervousness and its causes. .
People at any age experience mental stress. If a child can laugh with tears in his eyes, and a teenager forgets about unhappy love after 3-4 days, then an adult worries about any reason, and scrolls through unpleasant thoughts in his memory for a long time, cherishing them inside himself, thereby driving his psyche into a state of stress.
This is explained by the fact that with age, immune defense decreases, hormonal levels change and a person becomes more and more prone to a negative perception of reality.
And there are plenty of reasons to be nervous in the modern world - excessive haste, daily stress at home and at work, stressful work, social vulnerability, etc.
By the way, constant nervousness is one of the reasons for the strange night eating syndrome, in which people wake up at night from hunger and are unable to fall asleep without a snack.
Why are we nervous?
Objective reasons
The human condition has changed as a biological species. At the beginning of evolution, man led a natural lifestyle: the level of physical activity and the neuropsychic stress necessary for survival corresponded to each other.
The habitat was ecologically clean, and if it became unsuitable, the community of people changed it to another without trying to change it.
The information environment has changed. Every decade the amount of information accumulated before doubles. Scientific and technological progress has a tremendous impact on the brain: the speed of information receipt does not correspond to the biological capabilities of its assimilation, which is aggravated by a lack of time.
Children at school, especially diligent ones, experience information overload: the mental state of a first-grader when writing tests and the state of an astronaut at the moment of take-off of the spacecraft are comparable.
Many professions also create information loads: an air traffic controller, for example, must simultaneously control up to two dozen aircraft, and a teacher must pay enough attention to dozens of students.
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Urban population growth increased the density of human contacts and the degree of tension between people. The number of unpleasant and unavoidable relationships has increased in public transport, in queues, in stores.
At the same time, beneficial contacts (for example, family contacts) have decreased and take only about 30 minutes per day.
Increased noise level, especially in cities, exceeds natural norms and has a negative effect on our psyche and the body as a whole: blood pressure and respiratory rate changes, sleep and dream patterns are disturbed, and other unfavorable symptoms.
We are exposed to noise almost constantly, sometimes without noticing it (TV, radio).
Bad ecology also has an indirect effect on the brain and psyche. High levels of carbon monoxide in the air we breathe reduce gas exchange in the brain and its performance. Sulfur and nitrogen oxides disrupt brain metabolism.
Radioactive contamination occupies a special place in the deterioration of mental functioning: our nervous system suffers greatly from its high level. The psychological impact of this factor aggravates the harmful effect, generating fear.
Scientific and technological revolution improved the material conditions of human habitation, but at the same time significantly reduced its margin of safety. A decrease in physical activity has led to disruption of the biological mechanisms of the human body.
Subjective reasons
Strong emotions are usually a defensive reaction to manifestations of the outside world. We get nervous if we are not confident in ourselves, in our present, we experience fear of the future, dissatisfaction with ourselves and others.
Any living organism, in the presence of a threat, responds with compression (muscle tension) - to become invisible, to hide so that the “predator” does not notice or eat.
In the modern world, this “predator” has been transformed into different images of the social and public environment: level of well-being, relationships with superiors, fear of responsibility, fear of criticism and condemnation, small pension, impending poor old age, etc.
These social “predators” scare us, we want to hide and not think about them, but our thoughts always return to unpleasant things willingly and spontaneously. From here, nervous tension arises again and again, which means the body instinctively contracts.
What happens to the body during nervous tension
Strong and prolonged emotions plunge the body into a state of stress: muscle tone increases, heart rate accelerates, digestion slows down, the stress hormone cortisol and the action and anxiety hormone adrenaline are released into the blood.
All internal resources are mobilized to overcome danger, the body is ready for quick action.
Such a defensive reaction is an ancient form of response, genetically determined and necessary for the survival of humans as a biological species. It involves physical activity, the body must work off “adrenaline”. And that is why physical activity helps with nervous tension.
Thus,
Nervous tension is always accompanied by unconscious muscle tension .
With constant nervousness and a sedentary lifestyle, muscle tone becomes chronic. A person seems to be encased in a muscular shell; movement within it requires enormous energy expenditure. Therefore, fatigue is a faithful companion to nervous states.
Due to constant muscle tension, performance decreases, irritability appears, and the functions of the digestive, cardiovascular and other systems and organs are disrupted.
Signs of nervous tension. How to help yourself
Nagging pain in the back, lower back, neck, shoulder girdle. With any nervous overload, the tension of the skeletal muscles increases, while the muscles of the neck, shoulder blades and biceps bear increased load.
Bring your index finger and thumb together and clasp them tightly on both hands.
Do stretching exercises for the whole body and different muscle groups.
Massage your ankles, moving up to your thighs. Do the same for your arms, moving up from your hands to your shoulders.
Sleep disturbance. It is well known that the best and safest medicine for nervousness is sleep. However, if you go to bed with a load of problems, then your brain continues to solve them in your sleep, which does not allow you to fully rest.
There is no interest in love pleasures.
The subconscious of a person in a difficult life situation establishes a ban on receiving pleasure from life. So that he doesn’t get scattered and throws all his energy into solving problems.
This results in a contradiction:
a person in this state, on the contrary, needs positive emotions, namely the pleasure hormones endorphins produced during lovemaking, because these hormones protect the body from stress and minimize its harmful effects.
Refusal to engage in a favorite hobby.
All efforts are aimed at eliminating the cause of nervous tension (finishing a project, finishing an article, preparing a report, etc.), but there is simply not enough time or energy for the rest of life. The whole body is like a string, all thoughts are about one thing. This attitude towards the problem aggravates mental and physical discomfort.
Make it a rule to give yourself the opportunity to rest. Let your day off be a real break from all your problems. This will provide the necessary energy to solve troubling problems.
Repetitive actions:
tapping fingers, swinging legs, walking back and forth. This is a natural reaction of a person to emotional stress, this is how he tries to restore balance and calm down.
Help yourself with similar repetitive actions: you can walk up and down the stairs, touch your rosary, knit.
Even chewing gum has a good effect; chewing movements activate cerebral circulation, which increases resistance to stressful situations.
Any manifestation of the external and internal world finds a response in a person in the form of emotions. Our health directly depends on what emotions are, negative or positive, strong or not. This article is about the signs of nervousness and its causes.
People at any age experience mental stress. If a child can laugh with tears in his eyes, and a teenager forgets about unhappy love after 3-4 days, then an adult worries about any reason, and scrolls through unpleasant thoughts in his memory for a long time, cherishing them inside himself, thereby driving his psyche into a state of stress.
This is explained by the fact that with age, immune defense decreases, hormonal levels change and a person becomes more and more prone to a negative perception of reality. And there are plenty of reasons to be nervous in the modern world - excessive haste, daily stress at home and at work, stressful work, social vulnerability, etc.
Why are we nervous?
Objective reasons
The human condition has changed as a biological species. At the beginning of evolution, man led a natural lifestyle: the level of physical activity and the neuropsychic stress necessary for survival corresponded to each other. The habitat was environmentally friendly, and if it became unsuitable, then a community of people changed it for another without trying to change itb.The information environment has changed. Every decade the amount of information accumulated before doubles. Scientific and technological progress has a tremendous impact on the brain: the speed of information receipt does not correspond to the biological capabilities of its assimilation, which is aggravated by a lack of time.
Children at school, especially diligent ones, experience information overload: the mental state of a first-grader when writing tests and the state of an astronaut at the moment of take-off of the spacecraft are comparable.
Many professions also create information loads: an air traffic controller, for example, must simultaneously control up to two dozen aircraft, and a teacher must pay enough attention to dozens of students.
Urban population growth increased the density of human contacts and the degree of tension between people. The number of unpleasant and unavoidable relationships has increased in public transport, in queues, in stores. At the same time, beneficial contacts (for example, family contacts) have decreased and take only about 30 minutes per day. Increased noise level, especially in cities, exceeds natural norms and has a negative impact on our psyche and the body as a whole: blood pressure and respiratory rate changes, sleep and the nature of dreams are disturbed, insomnia and other unfavorable symptoms develop. We are exposed to noise almost constantly, sometimes without noticing it (TV, radio). Bad ecology also has an indirect effect on the brain and psyche. High levels of carbon monoxide in the air we breathe reduce gas exchange in the brain and its performance. Sulfur and nitrogen oxides disrupt brain metabolism.
Radioactive contamination occupies a special place in the deterioration of mental functioning: our nervous system suffers greatly from its high level. The psychological impact of this factor aggravates the harmful effect, generating fear.
Scientific and technological revolution improved the material conditions of human habitation, but at the same time significantly reduced its margin of safety. A decrease in physical activity has led to disruption of the biological mechanisms of the human body.
Subjective reasons
Strong emotions are usually a defensive reaction to manifestations of the outside world. We get nervous if we are not confident in ourselves, in our present, we experience fear of the future, dissatisfaction with ourselves and others.
Any living organism, in the presence of a threat, responds with compression (muscle tension) - to become invisible, to hide so that the “predator” does not notice or eat. In the modern world, this “predator” has been transformed into different images of the social and public environment: level of well-being, relationships with superiors, fear of responsibility, fear of criticism and condemnation, small pension, impending poor old age, etc.
These social “predators” scare us, we want to hide and not think about them, but our thoughts always return to unpleasant things willingly and spontaneously. From here, nervous tension arises again and again, which means the body instinctively contracts.
What happens to the body during nervous tension
Strong and prolonged emotions plunge the body into a state of stress: muscle tone increases, heart rate accelerates, digestion slows down, sweating increases, the stress hormone cortisol and the action and anxiety hormone adrenaline are released into the blood.
All internal resources are mobilized to overcome danger, the body is ready for quick action.
Such a defensive reaction is an ancient form of response, genetically determined and necessary for the survival of humans as a biological species. It involves physical activity, the body must work off “adrenaline”. And that is why physical activity helps with nervous tension.
Thus, Nervous tension is always accompanied by unconscious muscle tension. With constant nervousness and a sedentary lifestyle, muscle tone becomes chronic. A person seems to be encased in a muscular shell; movement within it requires enormous energy expenditure. Therefore, fatigue is a faithful companion to nervous states.
Due to constant muscle tension, performance decreases, irritability appears, and the functions of the digestive, cardiovascular and other systems and organs are disrupted.
Signs of nervous tension. How to help yourself
Nagging pain in the back, lower back, neck, shoulder girdle. With any nervous overload, the tension of the skeletal muscles increases, while the muscles of the neck, shoulder blades and biceps bear increased load.
Bring your index finger and thumb together and clasp them tightly on both hands.
Do stretching exercises for the whole body and different muscle groups.
Massage your ankles, moving up to your thighs. Do the same for your arms, moving up from your hands to your shoulders.
Sleep disturbance. It is well known that the best and safest medicine for nervousness is sleep. However, if you go to bed with a load of problems, then your brain continues to solve them in your sleep, which does not allow you to fully rest. Lack of sleep, in turn, leads to depression. It turns out to be a vicious circle.
A phyto-pillow will help - mix herbs in the following proportions:
o Mint, meadowsweet, lemon balm, wormwood - 1:1:1:2,
o Yellow clover, tansy color, lavender - 2:2:1,
o Chamomile, rosemary color, yarrow - 3:1:1,
o Hop cones.
Place this herbal-smelling pillow next to you at night. It is better to push the pillow with hop cones onto the floor as soon as you start to fall asleep. Otherwise, you risk oversleeping for work.
Making a phyto pillow is not difficult: put the herbs in a sewn gauze pillowcase, you can simply wrap it. It is better to store in a paper bag.
Recipes for good sleep will also help restore normal sleep.
No interest in sex. The subconscious of a person in a difficult life situation establishes a ban on receiving pleasure from life. So that he doesn’t get scattered and throws all his energy into solving problems. It turns out to be a contradiction: a person in this state, on the contrary, needs positive emotions, namely the pleasure hormones endorphins produced during sex, because these hormones protect the body from stress and minimize its harmful effects.
It is necessary to have sex during difficult periods of life! Experts advise following biorhythms. In men and women, mutual readiness occurs around 16:00, the most unfavorable time is 18:00. But, of course, these recommendations are conditional.
Refusal to engage in a favorite hobby. All efforts are aimed at eliminating the cause of nervous tension (finishing a project, finishing an article, preparing a report, etc.), but there is simply not enough time or energy for the rest of life. The whole body is like a string, all thoughts are about one thing. This attitude towards the problem aggravates mental and physical discomfort.
Make it a rule to give yourself the opportunity to rest. Let your day off be a real break from all your problems. This will provide the necessary energy to solve troubling problems.
Repetitive actions: tapping fingers, swinging legs, walking back and forth. This is a natural reaction of a person to emotional stress, this is how he tries to restore balance and calm down.
Help yourself with similar repetitive actions: you can walk up and down the stairs, touch your rosary, knit. Even chewing gum has a good effect; chewing movements activate cerebral circulation, which increases resistance to stressful situations.
I wish you a positive outlook and health!
Source: Ivleva E.I., Shcherbatykh Yu.V. "Psychophysiological and clinical aspects of fear, anxiety and phobias."
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Most failures in life are most often due to the fact that a person worried unnecessarily and thereby deprived himself of the opportunity to see and do what was important to him. And the reason for this is the mental characteristics of each individual person. After all, one person in any situation can pull himself together and not react so violently at all, while the other is almost hysterical. By finding out why people often get nervous over trifles, you can stop yourself in time and save your health and even life.
Understanding why people are nervous
A person's life is filled with a variety of events. Some make you happy, others make you sad, others destroy the established world, which has to be rebuilt or radically changed. There are no those who would not react in any way to what is happening; emotions are an integral part of a person. They perform an important role: warning, protecting or stopping. But the strength of their manifestation depends on what kind of psyche someone has. When something unpleasant happens or something that a person has not encountered before, he begins to get nervous. True, this is not always necessary and beneficial. Because too much nervous tension can cause many problems.
But the whole life is structured in such a way that it is becoming more and more difficult every day to avoid the reasons that provoke internal tension. The past years leave behind memories of both good and bad events, some of them brought joy, while others left scars on the soul and fear. And more often than not, we subconsciously remember more about those who caused pain rather than joy. And this becomes the reason that with age a person turns into an increasingly tense person, who is more likely to expect bad things than good things and tries with all his might to protect himself from this.
And the surrounding reality is depressing, especially if you listen to the problems of others or watch the news. Negative experiences, failures, problems in self-realization and personal life, constant haste, the imposition that only those who earn a lot and work day and night can be successful - all this creates tension, which over time results in anxiety and, as a result, becomes cause of chronic irritation.
Any event that does not fit into our picture of the world makes us nervous. Because it disrupts the course of events, the comfort zone that we tried to create in order to live more or less calmly. And since no one is immune from various accidents, and the behavior of others is quite difficult to predict, it turns out that with age people become more and more nervous and worried. Some problems give way to others, years pass, something ceases to be unattainable, but this does not inspire self-confidence, because these goals are always replaced by others.
It is also difficult to remain unperturbed because the human psyche has remained virtually unchanged over the past millennia. The process of assimilation of information remained almost the same as when we didn’t even travel on horses, but walked, but the world around us became completely different: too unpredictable and fast.
The colossal events that have occurred have changed the environment and it is necessary to constantly respond to this, which is why people are nervous, because they are not mentally ready to immediately process so much information, meet the imposed requirements, the level of knowledge and performance that employers, parents, legislators and many other people, and the man himself. After all, in order to achieve success, we are told like a mantra that we need to work hard, study hard, get up early and go ahead.
But people are all built differently, and not everyone can bear such pressure painlessly. In principle, there is almost no one who would argue otherwise. A person can remain calm and achieve success, in the form in which he understands it, only in the only case when he does what he likes and is not in a hurry. You can't be happy by skipping life in order to achieve what is an ideal for others, but not an ideal for him.
When you can’t live in harmony with yourself and the world around you, accepting yourself and it as you are, anxiety, stress, neuroses, asthenia, depression and many other dangerous conditions and diseases that need to be removed and treated with the help of specialists appear on the scene. . Therefore, it is so important to independently find this harmony with yourself, otherwise your whole life will pass under the slogan “Fight with yourself.”
How to stop being nervous
To cope with excessive nervousness, you need to accept the fact that it does not help you get the desired result, but rather reduces the chances of it. Instead of being at your best during a job interview, first date, first day of work, taking exams and any other events that are important to you, you become tense, awkward and unable to use your full potential at 100%. It doesn’t hurt to work on what causes tension and stress. Why are you so worried about this or that, what fears provoke this? There may be a fear of being rejected because you don’t have a high enough opinion of yourself or you think you’re unworthy of love. Find the reasons that provoke nervousness. Having realized what fear makes you worry about an upcoming event, imagine what such a terrible thing could happen if something that frightens you so much happens. The person you like will reject you, so what?! Is life really over here, and there is no one around who will be a hundred times better than him. Or you won’t be hired for this job, but who said that tomorrow you won’t have a job that will become the most beloved and interesting. And if suddenly at alumni meetings you don’t look as respectable as one of them, the earth will stop or it will somehow affect your life in a really negative way. In the end, if you set a goal and take a close look at the lives of successful people, you can see so much negativity that it’s time to envy yourself that everything is not so bad for you. A high level of anxiety is also provoked by certain work, which forces you to experience high stress and find yourself in stressful situations too often. The body is simply forced to be nervous about what is happening. This includes any work with people, the position of a dispatcher, service in the army and law enforcement agencies, work where a person is responsible for others and their life and health depend on him. Therefore, such work is usually hired after passing certain professional tests, which should show whether a person has high stress resistance, whether he is ready for such stress and whether he will not get confused in difficult situations. Factors such as constant noise, large numbers of people in cities, and rush also become reasons why people get nervous. Living in the countryside, or at least where there are parks and green areas, promotes relaxation, even in urban environments. If this is not possible, be sure to find time to play sports. Physical activity helps strengthen the nervous system. Sports in moderate but constant quantities can relieve tension and teach the body to react less to various irritating factors. Not everything is so sad for those who are confident in themselves. In most situations, they are able to avoid any excitement. They don’t think that by the age of 40 they need to become this and that, have this and that, otherwise they will be failures. They do what they like. They enjoy it, they are satisfied with life and everything they do. Therefore, they perceive any events as something to which sometimes they need to react, and sometimes not, and not as a reason to get nervous once again. 
No matter how old you are, it is worth remembering that sometimes there is something to learn from children. Of course, adults have much greater capabilities. They know more, they can do it. But they should learn one quality from children, remembering that they were once like that: the ability to quickly switch to other events in their lives, leaving unpleasant memories and traumatic events in the past. This is what allows adults to be much calmer and maintain health for many years. Constantly being nervous, they do not solve the problems that provoked this condition, but only destroy their health, creating unnecessary stress, and complicating the situation even more.
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adminThe most common human emotion is anxiety. The reasons for worry are varied: from the desire to hide the truth to fulfilling a responsible situation. Anxiety is often easy to identify. But how can you tell that a person is worried if he hides it? Knowing the signs, you can learn from the eyes of others.
What is this knowledge needed for? An important meeting or interview is coming up. There's an important family event on the eve and you don't want to look like an insecure person.
At the same time, if you understand that a person is too worried, you can calm him down.
Obvious signs
Some emotions immediately indicate that a person is worried.
Speech becomes confused, stuttering and trembling appear. A person tries to cope with emotions, but this is easy to see, since the voice reveals emotions.
Trembling in the joints and throughout the body. The person’s knees and fingers begin to tremble. This is what hormones provoke. Initially, the body tries to prepare for the upcoming load and increase muscle activity. A person holding back emotions creates overstrain, resulting in tremors.
Movement back and forth. Experience makes a person become more active. Nervously, he jumps up and begins to move around the office, unable to contain his excitement. To stop yourself, you can try placing your hands on the table or back of a chair.
A sign of excitement is a shifting gaze. Often, in order to hide emotions, a person tries to avoid the oncoming gaze.
Indirect signs of excitement
Some people have adapted to mask or control their own emotions.
Inattention. The person misspoke and cannot immediately remember the previous phrase. Because of this, the essence of the story is lost. It is impossible to finish the topic because its beginning has been forgotten.
A person is able to suppress some excitement. He holds himself straight, stands in one place, but at the same time his running fingers give him away. They touch each other and lying objects. Some begin to “crunch” them, others sort through their hair, and others scratch parts of their bodies.
Uncontrolled banging of fingers on the table also gives away. This harmless gesture can convey excitement.
Handling a cup of coffee or a glass of water will also tell you a lot. In excitement, a person will drink greedily or in small sips, but often. In a relaxed position, drink the cup slowly.
Just like shifty eyes, an unblinking gaze is a sure sign of excitement. Trying to hide it, a person tenses, which is why his gaze becomes detached.
If you know that a person rarely smokes, frequent smoking tells about the experience. While smoking, your nerves calm down, and your hands are busy with work.
The lighter does not work immediately and the person splashes out his emotions.
Feigned indifference or harsh ones speak of excitement. A person can laugh uncontrollably and this is explained by physiological processes. Muscles involuntarily contract, forcing a person to express emotions unusual for that moment.
With all his might, trying to hide signs of excitement, a person puts on a mask of indifference and irony. Sharp comments and sarcastic remarks are fully consistent with the state of excitement.
In moments of danger, people activate defensive reactions. A person becomes aggressive, which means he worries about his own life or the fate of loved ones.
Increased sweating. At the moment of excitement, all systems begin to work faster. Therefore, you can recognize anxiety both by rapid breathing and by beads of sweat on the forehead, hands or upper abdomen.
Recognize signs of anxiety by looking at your face
Take a closer look at the person sitting opposite.
Does he bite or lick his lips? This is a sign of excitement. This emotion causes dryness that you want to fill. If emotions are overwhelming, a person is able to bite his lips until they bleed. This is an involuntary process that is not amenable to consciousness.
Redness of the skin. The vegetative-vascular system begins to work more actively, due to which blood rushes to the smallest capillaries, filling them. This is an uncontrollable action that betrays anxiety.
The nodules are playing. When excited, the muscles tense, causing the cheekbones to move. This is more common in men, since their facial muscles are more developed.
The nostrils flare due to frequent and uneven breathing. Excitement provokes the production of adrenaline, which causes a rapid heartbeat and faster breathing. During this process, the nostrils flare to take in more air.
How can you tell if a man is worried?
Men are able to hide their own worries, unlike emotional women. But if you want to find out what your man is hiding under the mask of calm, take a closer look at his involuntary movements.
Men hide their excitement by clenching their hands, resting on nearby objects. Excessive sweat can give away your anxiety. If you notice shiny droplets on the forehead or above the upper lip, the man is trying to hide something from you.
Some individuals, trying to hide behind a mask of carefreeness, begin to hum or drum tunes. Take a closer look, maybe in response to your question the man begins to involuntarily smile or laugh out loud? This is also a sign of excitement.
Exceptions to the General Rules
Remember that people are different and before diagnosing a stranger, talk to him more. Perhaps a trembling voice or involuntary movements are not a way to hide a lie, but a sign of insecurity.
If you want to guess the essence of character, do not rush to draw conclusions. Read more relevant literature and communicate with knowledgeable people.
22 March 2014, 15:34
