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    On your mini whiteboards, write


    down what the word anxiety
    means to you?
    Recognising Emotions -
    Anxiety
    Learning Objectives
    • Understand the difference
    between anxiety and anxious
    thoughts
    • Understand how to recognise the
    signs of anxiety
    • Suggest strategies to manage
    anxiety including journaling
    What is anxiety?
    • Anxiety is a normal, human feeling of fear or panic.
    When we face stressful situations, it can set off our
    brain’s in-built alarm bell system. This system would
    make us hyper-alert by giving us a boost of
    adrenaline that would increase the heart rate and
    boost the amount of oxygen going to our limbs so
    we were better able to fight or run from danger. This
    is known as the “fight or flight” response.
    • The “butterflies in the stomach” feeling that many
    associate with anxiety is this mechanism kicking in,
    but instead of being used to avoid immediate
    danger, it is often wrongly activated in a person
    during normal, everyday situations when stress has
    built up.
    What can cause anxiety?
    • Some people have an identifiable cause for their
    anxiety; a traumatic incident or a significant life
    event (parents getting divorced, having surgery).
    However, some people don’t have an identifiable
    cause for their anxiety.
    • One way of thinking about your anxiety is to
    imagine your stress levels as being like a bucket
    of water. If we keep adding stressors to the
    bucket (even tiny ones), over time it fills up until
    one day it overflows.
    • This explains why anxiety can seem to come out
    of the blue. However, what has happened is that
    the trigger was just a very small stressor that
    tipped us over the edge and allowed our bucket
    What is the difference between
    anxiety and having anxious
    thoughts?
    • Anxious thoughts are normal.

    • But when you’re not in a


    stressful situation, and you still
    feel worried or panicky, that’s
    when anxiety can become a
    problem.
    Discussion
    Q1. Tell the person next to you, one thing which
    has made you feel anxious in the last week…
    e.g. I found my Maths homework quite difficult
    and didn’t know what to do about it.

    Q2. How did that make you feel physically?


    Group task
    • Thinking you
    • Increased heart might lose
    rate control
    • Increased muscle • Feeling on
    tension edge/alert
    • Feeling like
    • Dry mouth
    people are
    • Dizziness looking at you
    • Avoiding
    • Wanting to use • Feeling like
    social
    the toilet more events and things are
    often activities speeding
    • Sweating you usually up/slowing
    enjoy down
    • Shaking • Detached
    • Being
    • Palpitations
    restless or • Feeling like
    agitated you want to
    • Avoiding run away from
    Discussion
    • What are some self-help
    activities you can try to reduce
    anxiety?

    • Think – pair – share – be ready to


    share your ideas!
    Discussion
    • How many of these did you think of?
    Stop and focus on your breathing, find a way
    to get the worries out, share your struggles
    with people you trust, find something to look
    forward to, mindfulness and meditation, pay
    attention to sleep regularity, limit
    caffeine/sugar, be active.

    • Did you think of any that are not on this


    list?
    Journaling
    • One really effective strategy is
    called journaling…
    • Journaling can stop your ‘bucket
    of water’ from overflowing!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
    =rkboVCwQP6M
    Task
    Have a go at completing two of the sentence starters
    below…
    1. I want to let go of…
    2. I don’t need to worry about…
    3. These fears no longer serve me…
    4. I feel best when…
    5. These things always make me feel happier and
    calmer…
    6. The best parts of me are…
    7. I will make time for self-care by…
    8. I forgive myself for…
    9. When things are hard I want to remember…
    10. The kindest thing I can do for myself right now is…
    Who can you talk to?
    At Charities
    At home
    school
    Your tutor Your Childline
    parents/carer 0800 1111

    Your HOY/AHOY Your GP Young minds


    Text YM to 85258
    Miss Hughes Friends and
    family NHS moodzone
    School Counsellor – Mrs
    Swann The Mix
    Chaplain – Mrs. 08088084594
    Hodgson
    Kooth

    Diana Award Crisis


    messenger
    Text DA to 85258
    Plenary
    On a post-it note, answer these
    two questions…
    • What is the difference between
    anxiety and having anxious
    thoughts?
    • What would you do if you were
    experiencing anxiety that was
    affecting you every day?

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