.Such is the thought of worry that keeps rolling in an endless circle of everyday melodrama, a series of anxiety will carry on to the next series and will return to the beginning again. The example above is given by Lizabeth Roemer and Thomas Borkovec, oscicologists from Pennsylvania State University, whose research on worry (the heart of all anxiety) has raised the topic as psychiatric disorders become part of science. Of course there is nothing wrong with worrying, constantly thinking about a problem, that is, taking advantage of constructive reflection, which can be like worrying and a solution can be obtained. In fact, the underlying reaction to worry is awareness of possible dangers, which, without a doubt, is an essential part of survival during the course of evolution. When fear triggers the emotional brain, part of the anxiety that arises will focus on the threat at hand, forcing the mind to continually think about how to solve the problem and ignore other things for a while. In a sense, worry is an exercise in what is wrong and how to solve it; the role of worry is to seek positive solutions to risks in life by anticipating dangers before they arise. What is troublesome are chronic worries that keep repeating themselves, that is, worry that never ends and never comes close to a positive solution. A fairly credible analysis of chronic worry suggests that worry has all the features of low-level emotional piracy: it arises out of nowhere, cannot be controlled, creates a constant buzz of anxiety, is impenetrable by reason, and locks the person into a single view rigid about troublesome issues. When these same cycle of worries get more and more inhibiting and persistent, they turn into nerve-racking and continuing anxiety disorders: phobias, obsessions and compulsiveness, panic easily. In each of these disorders anxiety appears in its own pattern, for the phobic person, anxiety is fixated on the feared situation; for those with an obsession, concern focuses on how to prevent a dreaded disaster; in panic sufferers, worry can focus on fear of death or on the possibility of panic attack itself.
With each of these ailments, the characteristic feature is that anxiety appears in an extremely exaggerated form. For example, a woman experiencing medication for obsessive-gathering disorder goes through a series of arutinic events that take up most of her time: baths for 45 minutes several times a day, washing hands for five minutes twenty or more times a day. He does not want to sit down unless the chair is disinfected with alcohol. He also doesn't want to touch children or pets because they are both "too dirty light." All of these compulsions were caused by his extreme fear of germs; he was constantly worried that without bathing and purifying everything, he would catch disease and die. A woman who is on medication for “generalized anxiety disorder” (a psychiatric term for a person who has constant anxiety) responded to a request to reveal what she felt during one minute as follows: Maybe I can't do it very well. This is so far-fetched that it is not a true indication when we need things that are real…. Because if I don't get the real thing, I won't get better. And if I don't get well, I won't be happy…. In this demonstration of intense anxiety about immense anxiety, the request to express anxiety in just one minute, in just a few seconds, has developed into contemplation of the catastrophe of a lifetime: "I will never be happy." Anxiety usually follows such a line of thought, a story of oneself that jumps from one problem to another and very often involves catastrophizing, that is, imagining a terrible tragedy. Worry is almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not in the mind's eye (so, in words, not in images) a fact which means a lot to control worry.Borkovec and his colleagues began studying the worry themselves as they worked to find a cure for insomnia. According to the observations of other researchers, anxiety appears in two forms: cognitive, or anxiety that arises due to confusing thoughts, and somatic, which is anxiety that results in physiological symptoms, such as sweating, palpitations, or muscle tension. According to Borkovec, a person with insomnia is not due to somatic reasons. What keeps them awake are disturbing thoughts. Insomniacs are chronic worry makers, and worry constantly even though they are very drowsy. One successful way to help them fall asleep is to keep them away from worrying thoughts, to focus on the feelings produced by the relaxing method. In short, worry can be stopped by distracting it. However, some people who worry easily seem very difficult to do.
Borkovec believes that the reason has to do with the benefits of worrying that reinforce the habit. Worry also seems to raise a positive thing: worrying is a way to deal with possible threats, overcome the dangers that may come. The function of worry (if successful) is to practice recognizing hazards, and providing solutions to deal with them. But worrying isn't always that successful. New solutions and patterns to a problem usually don't come from worry, let alone chronic worry. Worry craftsmen are not usually looking for solutions to potential problems, they imagine the danger itself, and in such a way immerse themselves in the fear associated with the danger while remaining on the same mindset. The chronic sufferer is worried about all kinds of things, most of which is almost impossible; they feared dangers in their lives that others never worried about.
However, chronic stage sufferers tell Borkovec that worry helps them, and that their worries persist, an endless cycle of anxiety-driven thoughts. Why is worrying something akin to a mental addiction? Curiously, as Borkovac pointed out, the habit of worrying was so strong that it seemed superstitious. Since people worry about many things that are unlikely to actually happen (eg a loved one dies in an accident, goes bankrupt, and the like), there must be a special attraction to worrying, at least for the primitive limbic. Like a talisman to ward off evil spirits, psychologically, worry is useful for preventing anxious harm. Continued on Writing Overcoming Anxiety: Am I Worried? (2) This article is quoted from the book: Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence Why EQ Is More Important Than IQ ,. Daniel Goleman, Jakata: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2004.
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