Understanding
anxiety and mental health stigma (by Pete Etchells)
The
Guardian, Friday 27 September 2013, 07.00 BST .
http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/sep/27/neuroscience-psychology
However,
the author claims that the anxious isn’t necessarily a bad thing, says that we
all feel it from time to time because the anxiety is an adaptative function
that causes a state of physiological readiness to deal with any threats, since
anxiety increases awareness of our surroundings.
Afterwards,
he describes the pathological anxiety as one that response kicks in too often
and in situations where it is not needed, rising to become in a debilitating
problem.
The autor
says that there is a wealth of research that is trying of understands the
anxious mechanisms. He suggests that with understanding what happens when we
become anxious, we might know that´s wrong in the anxiety disorders.
Mr.
Etchells indicates that a new study published this week in the Journal of
Neuroscience has suggested one potential contributing factor to anxiety
emergence; this is about how smells are processed. The results of this study of
Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from the University of Wisconsin says that, the
same odors that were initially rated as being neutral were rated as unpleasant
after of that the participants became anxious.They also found that the anxiety
produces a stronger bond in the brain, between an area involved in smell and an
area involved in emotion.
Finally,
the autor concludes that understanding
how anxiety works might help to destigmatise mental health issues.
