Sergio García’s Psychology Alphabet will continue to be completed in 2022. The psychologist offers the essential strokes on the word “Nerves”
We call “nerves” a state of general activation with an emotional or/and bodily correlate that, extended over time, can lead to “anxiety”.
The “nerves” would originate in specific or novel events that raise our emotional tension and affect our person at a specific moment and that we think will happen immediately when the pressure is reduced.
Some of these symptoms can be:
– Acceleration of the pulse.
– Sweating, chills, dry mouth.
– Redness of the face and extremities.
– Sensation of blockage and reduction of attentional resources.
– Nerves in the stomach: heaviness in meals, poor digestion.
– Mild insomnia when falling asleep or staying asleep.
Suffer from nervousness or mild distress is a logical reaction we can have to a new situation.
In addition, it was an evolutionary reaction that helped us to survive in nature since the nervous system expels adrenaline, a hormone that prepares it for a surprising physical activity facing the unexpected external circumstance.
In reference to the types of activation, there are two mechanisms in our psyche:
- Approach or appetitewhich starts with positive emotions and behaviors that we like (such as that excitement we feel when we go on vacation or embark on a desired trip, or when we try to achieve a new job goal).
- avoidance or defenseit starts up with supposed threats from the hostile environment or in those situations that we dislike (examples would be a traffic accident, an argument with the partner or at work…).
In order to attenuate or minimize “nerves” we must tolerate them, knowing that they are part of us and that we cannot end them.
We must also put the “focus” outside of us and not pay much attention to them because if they do not get bigger, in such a way that we must assume or resolve the situation that generates them or move away from it.
In the event that we do not know their origin or they have become very frequent, it would be advisable to consult a psychologist to avoid reaching an “anxious state”.
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