In this study, anxiety is defined as a usual reaction to stress and is expressed in various characteristics like tremors, difficulty to concentrate, fatigue, and sleep disturbances.
The researchers looked to address the effects of anxiety disorders on people’s social, family, affective, and professional lives, as well as to analyze the conviviality of those who suffer from anxiety disorders. Additionally, the researchers looked at how much psychological suffering people with stress disorders were experiencing. The primary goal of this research is to educate mental health professionals so that they can assess all around aspects of the contributors and effects of anxiety disorders so as to deliver care that is client centered. The total number of participants for the research was twenty patients particularly those diagnosed with anxiety sickness (Astrês Fernandes et al., 2017). The researchers conducted partially structured interviews which were utilized as part of a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study. It was established that eight participants experienced generalized anxiety, nine experienced a combination of depression and anxiety, and the remaining three had conversion, neurasthenia, and paranoiac disorder respectively.
The researchers argue that anxiety disorder interferes with the affective relationship in the majority of cases. Additionally, they contend that chronic anxiety causes various clinical signs and symptoms that can inhibit a person’s professional life by causing stress, excessive worry, unease, restlessness, and obsessive rituals. They also argue that these patients encounter threatening situations in daily life that are connected to their negative aspects, which in turn cause them to experience psychic suffering. The study concludes that anxiety is a distressing emotion of fear and tension and when it becomes pathological can cause significant emotional suffering which directly affects a patient’s quality of life and indirectly affects the lives of other people living with the patient.
Reference
Astrês Fernandes, M., Tôrres de Meneses, R., Guimarães Franco, S. L., Soares e Silva, J., & Araújo Feitosa, C. D. (2017). Anxiety disorders: Experiences of users of a specialized mental health outpatient service. Journal of Nursing UFPE/Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 11(10).