{"id":1416,"date":"2019-06-03T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:34:02","slug":"anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the staggering rise in anxiety rates among Canadians, it\u2019s a wonder any of us can
\nget out of bed in the morning. A recent poll of 1,500 Canadians found that roughly 40
\npercent of participants believes they struggle with anxiety. One-third of these participants
\nhad already received a formal anxiety diagnosis from a physician and a similar
\nproportion had already been prescribed antidepressants.<\/p>\n

The question must be asked: have anxiety rates really changed that drastically in the
\npast decade? Are we living in an unusually anxiety-inducing era or have we just become
\nintolerant to normal bouts of misery?<\/p>\n

Dr. David Rosmarin of Harvard Medical School believes there are several cultural
\nfactors that are setting us up for \u201cemotional decline.\u201d Facing challenges is a part of life,
\nbut according to Dr. Rosmarin, people are exceptionally averse to pain.
\n\u201cPeople want to be comfortable and they want to be happy,\u201d says Dr. Rosmarin. \u201cBut if
\nyou chase happiness by trying to push aside anything that\u2019s unpleasant and upsetting in
\nyour life, the irony is that it actually comes back with a vengeance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent survey conducted by Yahoo Canada, 34 percent of adult men and 47 per
\ncent of adult women considered themselves someone who struggles with anxiety.
\nAmong those aged 30 and under, roughly 70 percent of women reported anxiousness
\nwhile approximately 50 percent of men reported the same.<\/p>\n

Anxiety disorders can include obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder,
\nagoraphobia, social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder. When combined, anxiety
\ndisorders are the most prevalent mental disorders, experts say. In severe cases, people
\ncan become seriously functionally impaired.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to find reliable evidence citing an increase in prevalence rates for anxiety
\nover the last 50 years, but a report conducted in 2018 states more people are seeking
\ntreatment for anxiety-related issues which may explain why it seems to have become
\nmore commonplace. This study reported that 30 to 50 percent of anxiety disorders are
\nheritable, meaning that the clinical picture of anxiety disorders really would not have
\nchanged substantially over the past decades.<\/p>\n

Still, the perception that we as a society are coming seriously undone has sparked a
\nburgeoning anxiety economy with \u201ccalming\u201d products being advertised from anti-anxiety
\nsmartphone apps to magnetic bracelets.<\/p>\n

Dr. Rosmarin expressed particular concern about high self-reported rates of anxiety
\namong youth. On social media, we size ourselves up against everyone else, wondering
\nwhy they get to enjoy happiness while we experience misery. According to Dr.
\nRosmarin, we don\u2019t have to deal with the level of adversity that society used to.<\/p>\n

We live in an unusually privileged moment in time and place. We don\u2019t live in a period of
\nstress anywhere near where people have lived in historically, or that people are suffering from around the world. There\u2019s a lot in this world that\u2019s worth being anxious
\nabout. That\u2019s not pathological, that\u2019s part of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the staggering rise in anxiety rates among Canadians, it\u2019s a wonder any of us can get out of bed in the morning. A recent poll of 1,500 Canadians found that roughly 40 percent of participants believes they struggle with anxiety. One-third of these participants had already received a formal anxiety diagnosis from a physician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[69,71,25,70],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}