From the course: Emotional Intelligence Basics
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Anxiety and the brain
From the course: Emotional Intelligence Basics
Anxiety and the brain
- Anxiety pushes you into your primal emotional brain and limits your ability to access higher order thinking. That's a thinking from your frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for your decision making, planning, reward, emotional balance, and your working memory. It's the mother load of executive functioning. And usually when you fall into an anxiety pattern, you can get stuck. What's the difference between normal anxiety and anxiety disorder? Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, unease, typically about a current event or something with an uncertain outcome. Occasionally anxiety occurs in our daily life with work, test taking, managing our time, making important decisions and in our relationships. What happens when your anxiety response is so amped up you feel constantly anxious. General anxiety disorder is define as excessive worry lasting longer than six months. An individual that suffers from anxiety…
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