Mental Health Nursing & Clinical Psychologist’s Perspective

Clinical Anxiety Management

- Ms. Neetu Dhami

Anxiety is a normal human emotion which motivates people to engage in usual day-to-day tasks. It is like a push-given emotion for completing the tasks. Anxiety, however, when increases too much then it starts interfering in our day to day functions and effects our occupational functioning. That anxiety we call as “Clinical anxiety” which needs to be addressed by pertinent professionals. Clinical anxiety is a diffuse, highly unpleasant, feeling of apprehension, accompanied by one or more bodily sensation palpitation, respiration, and headache etc. It is a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger which may be internal or external.

Symptoms of anxiety can be divided into three broad categories