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Fight and Flight by Shira Keller-Ohana

6/2/2017

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​Anxiety may cause many physical complications and jeopardize one’s physical health, even though the origin is due to a mental component. It’s interesting that a mental thing can cause a physical effect. Lets take for example the fight-or-flight response; your system creates the stress chemicals (adrenaline, norepinephrine, and cortisol) causing your heart to race and blood pressure to increase. This response is there to save us from danger, however in many cases when faced with mildly stressful situations we tend to interpret as threatening and instead of it helping us, it causes our brains to overreact to various situations as threatening. However, this continuous exaggerated brain activity can cause abrasions and deterioration to the heart, muscles and brain. There are some individuals that don’t necessarily internalize the daily anxiety and stresses. What makes one individual more prone to struggle with anxiety as apposed to another? Nature and nurture both play an important roll. On the one hand, learning how to react to stress may be a learned behavior, which was modeled by parents and or caregivers. On the other hand, a genetic predisposition to be reactive or calm is another side of the coin.

​Various activities to help reduce anxiety
  1. Exercise – exercise has proven to reduce the impact of stress on the body
  2. Balanced diet and a good nights sleep are both important in helping to reduce anxiety
  3. Mindfulness – techniques combining the mind and body has been proven to assist in managing stress. Particularly, the practice of Tai chi has been brought to the attention of mental health therapists due to its ability to lower stress. Mindfulness helps calm our anxiety through deep breathing and improving flexibility.
 
Using all or some of the strategies mentioned above may help reduce stress and bring about an overall well-being, both mentally and physically. 

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    Sara Schapiro-Halberstam, LMHC
    Providing affordable psychotherapy and individual therapy in NYC. Bringing awareness to mental health related issues and advocating for liberal and liberating sex values.

    ​Shira Keller-Ohana, M.A., MHC-LP
    Providing affordable psychotherapy and couples and family therapy in NYC. Taking an integrative positive approach toward mental health and therapy.

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