hey this video includes an anxiety test
and some important strategies to follow
if you suffer from anxiety you will get
eight questions that are designed to
help you determine whether you suffer
from anxiety or not my name is Heath
born and raised in Europe in Brussels
and the author of this book bad ass ways
to end anxiety and stop panic attacks
I'm also the creator of an audio course
followed by thousands of people on my
website
I love panic attacks calm and those
people follow my audio course because
they want to overcome their anxiety and
their panic attacks I overcame my own
anxiety issues in 2004 and I've been
helping people ever since now if you
suffer from anxiety please understand
that you're far from alone
according to the official National
Institute of Mental Health so from the
government eighteen point one percent of
the population suffers from anxiety
that's a lot of people right twenty two
point eight percent of those people have
severe anxiety now that means that if
you've been in a room with say a hundred
people you were definitely not the only
one with anxiety there you've probably
already been in the immediate vicinity
of someone suffering from a panic attack
but that person was simply really good
at hiding their anxiety that's why you
may not have noticed it anxiety can
limit our lives in many ways first of
all there are many types of anxiety and
anxiety disorders you can have a
generalized anxiety disorder simply put
that's when you feel anxious most of the
time so the anxiety seems to accompany
you the entire day there can be peaks of
anxiety like a panic attack but you will
feel anxiety multiple times per day and
you will be checking in on your anxiety
on your feelings for some people their
anxiety is there from the moment they
open their eyes in the morning until the
night when they fall asleep and then the
anxiety is going to make it difficult to
sleep social anxiety is another form of
anxiety that a lot of people suffer from
and I did too I even got a social phobia
because of my social anxiety now social
anxiety starts when other people seem to
give you a feeling of this
Comfort you may not like being in a
place with a lot of people or get
anxiety when you have to speak in front
of a couple of people or a group of
people you may feel like you don't have
a lot of self-esteem and all of that is
linked to social anxiety and when
because of that anxiety you start to
avoid social activities to not feel the
anxiety that's when it becomes a social
phobia there are other forms of anxiety
like hypochondria derealization
agoraphobia and more but the primary
question is do you suffer from anxiety
it's an important question because it
took me a couple of years before I
finally realized that all that I was
feeling and experiencing was in fact
anxiety I knew something was wrong with
me but I didn't know it was anxiety
because nobody had told me so
let's get to the anxiety test take out a
piece of paper and write down how many
times you'll say yes and no to the
following eight questions ready question
number one in the last week have you had
a feeling of intense discomfort or fear
even though you were not in imminent
physical danger write down yes or no
question number two do you suffer from
worries that you cannot seem to get out
of your mind
recurring worries about a future event
or something else and they keep coming
back yes or no question number three
have you have you had a hard time
sleeping in the last week falling asleep
you wake up at night or you wake up way
too early yes or no question number four
do you feel restless on edge often yes
or no
question number five is the reason or
one of the reasons why you found this
video making it hard for you to focus at
work or during class for instance yes or
no number six in general do you have
problems concentrating does your mind
keep jumping from one thing to the next
and then to the next yes-or-no question
number seven an important one have you
recently experienced symptoms like a
racing heart shortness of breath chest
pain dizziness hot flashes or chills a
tingling sensation on your skin
faintness or sudden digestive issues yes
or no if you answer yes to this question
then it's important to talk about these
with and to your doctor obviously
question number eight in the last week
have you felt afraid as if you as if you
thought something awful might happen yes
or no okay so now please add up the
yeses how many times did you reply yes
if you replied yes less than once then
you do not suffer from debilitating
anxiety and you're probably fine
if you replied yes twice then there is
some anxiety in your life but it doesn't
seem abnormal to me and probably not
even to you if you replied yes three to
four times then it's clear that anxiety
is starting to limit your life and it
may be worth learning how to overcome
anxiety because overcoming anxiety is
not that hard if you're willing to put
in an effort that's what's required the
effort if you replied yes five times or
more then you where I was at when I
suffered from generalized anxiety
disorder and panic attacks and when
anxiety controlled my entire life in
fact as soon as you're over four yeses
then I think you should take action I've
suffered from anxiety and panic attacks
for 14 years for that long
partially because I always believed that
the anxiety would end on its own but it
didn't
I tried therapy they simply wanted to
talk about my past then myths were
prescribed but I didn't want to take
them because I wanted to find a natural
cure for anxiety so take action do
something get help to overcome your
anxiety you can go find a therapist you
can read books you can follow a course
and if you want my help then you can
start by reading my book badass ways to
end anxiety and stop panic attacks you
can come on over - I love panic attacks
calm where you will find more videos my
free newsletter and the audio course
that my clients follow from home
whatever you do take a first step today
don't wait for it to end on its own take
that step fear is normal but unwanted
anxiety is not anxiety is an emotion and
when it starts to dominate your life
your brain is making a mistake if thinks
that there is an imminent danger
that's why launch is anxiety when there
is no danger and we simply need to train
our brain so it doesn't respond with
anxiety unless you've just met an angry
tiger that has been drooling over a
picture of you for months because that
anxiety is fine but in most of the cases
where you feel anxiety now it probably
isn't there you go
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over - I love panic attacks calm I have
so much more in store for you I know how
difficult it is to have anxiety to
suffer from generalized anxiety disorder
social phobia social anxiety panic
attacks and more because I've had it and
I've been helping people since 2005 I
overcame it in 2004 feels like
essentially ago but I've been doing it
because that's my mission on this planet
and I hope that this video has already
helped you a little bit
I love making it for you and I want you
to know that we're in this together