physical factors- mental ill health.

Question 1

anxiety: what is it caused by?

Answer 1

natural response to pressure, feeling afraid or threatened.

Question 2

anxiety: what does it affect?

Answer 2

worrying a lot about small stuff or relatively harmless situations and can interfere with our daily life or affect our relationships.

Question 3

anxiety: how does it physically affect someone?

Answer 3

• feeling tired, restless or irritable
• feeling shaky or trembly, dizzy.
• unable to concentrate or make decisions
• trouble sleeping
• headaches, tummy aches or muscle pain
• dry mouth
• pins and needles
• noticing your heartbeat gets stronger, faster or irregular, or you get short of breath when you start feeling anxious

Question 4

anxiety: what can you do to prevent/ control it?

Answer 4

• talking about your feelings.
• use calming breathing exercises.
• exercise.
• eat a healthy diet with regular meals to keep your energy levels stable.
• find out how to get to sleep if you’re struggling to sleep.
• talking therpay.

Question 5

anxiety: what is the long term affect of stress?

Answer 5

physical stress on your body, especially to your nervous, cardiovascular, digestive, immune, and respiratory systems. Chronic memory problems, frequent migraines, heart problems, and risk of heart disease, and various illnesses from a lowered immune system.

Question 6

anxiety: how can it affect an inderviduals current health &/ wellbeing?

Answer 6

-muscle pain, reduce how much they mocve around or see others.
- struggiling to sleep, not able to learn new content or exercise/ daily rotinues.

Question 7

anxiety: how could it affect an inderviudlas future health &/ wellbeing?

Answer 7

• binge eating/ not eating enough-weight gain/ loss.
• feeling tired or irritable, negative impact on friendships in the long run if it is all the time with no apparent cause.

Question 8

stress: what causes it?

Answer 8

one big event or situation in your life. Or it might be a build-up of lots of smaller things.

Question 9

stress: what does it affect?

Answer 9

too much stress can affect our mood, our body and our relationships – especially when it feels out of our control. It can make us feel anxious and irritable, and affect our self-esteem.

Question 10

stress: how does it physically affect someone?

Answer 10

• stomach problems, stress headaches and other odd pains including muscle pain
• skin reactions, like stress rashes and hives
  feeling dizzy, sick or faint
• how much we eat or exercise
• our habits around drinking, smoking or taking other substances
• how much we see people or do things we used to do or enjoy (avoidance)

Question 11

stress: what is the long term affect of stress?

Answer 11

heart problems, poor immune function, and more. The mental effects of long-term stress can include mood changes, anxiety, and depression,emotional overwhelm and burnout.

Question 12

stress: how can it affect an inderviudals current health &/ wellbeing?

Answer 12

• binge/ not eating- weight gain/ loss. anorexia/ besity.
• lack in social inetractions- develop anxiety.
• heart problems and immune system- lead to poor health, may not be always readily availiable to do certian activities.

Question 13

stress: how could it affect future health &/ wellbeing?

Answer 13

• heart problems could lead to more serious ones such as heart attacks.
• burnout, depression- isolation and a possible loss in frienships.