Üsküdar University NP Feneryolu Medical Center Psychiatry Specialist Dr. Faculty Member Dilek Sarıkaya shared important information about the disorders caused by fears and anxieties and her recommendations to ensure psychological resilience.
Experts frequently state that prolonged and high levels of anxiety, worry, fear and panic are associated with a number of physical diseases. Drawing attention to the importance of regular exercise as it reduces anxiety and improves coping skills, experts recommend giving importance to social relationships, increasing activities and making time for individuals for psychological resilience.
Üsküdar University NP Feneryolu Medical Center Psychiatry Specialist Dr. Faculty Member Dilek Sarıkaya shared important information about the disorders caused by fears and anxieties and her recommendations to ensure psychological resilience.
High blood pressure complaints can be seen
Pointing out that experiencing prolonged and high levels of anxiety, worry, fear and panic is associated with a number of physical diseases, Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Dr. Dilek Sarıkaya continued her words as follows: "Especially complaints such as increased blood pressure and high blood pressure may be seen. In someone with diabetes, it can lead to an increase in blood sugar and frequent problems with it. It can cause physical problems such as unidentified pain, numbness, tingling, and especially significant and serious headaches. For this reason, in cases where there are some physical symptoms that cannot be fully understood, after being examined by the relevant branch physician, for example, if there are neurological symptoms such as dizziness and headache and no neurological disorder is detected to explain it, we recommend that a mental health and diseases specialist should be consulted, considering that this may be due to a psychological cause."
Significant avoidance behaviors may be present
Prof. Dr. Dilek Sarıkaya said, "If our fears and anxieties lead to very significant avoidance behaviors, if these avoidance behaviors significantly affect our quality of life, if they significantly affect our ability to maintain our social and family relationships and our work life, we strongly recommend that we seek support from a mental health and diseases specialist."
Psychological resilience can be developed
Defining the concept of psychological resilience as a general concept that describes the level of a person's ability to react and cope with certain psychological traumas or stress factors, Sarıkaya said, "It is said here that individuals with high psychological resilience or resilience are less affected by traumatic experiences or that the effects of trauma lead to post-traumatic stress disorder or depression at a lower rate. Psychological resilience is defined as a condition that can be developed through research and it is possible to achieve a higher level of resilience."
What should be done for psychological resilience?
Dr. Dilek Sarıkaya shared her suggestions for psychological resilience as follows:
"First of all, regular exercise is one of the important activities we recommend as it reduces anxiety and improves coping skills. Increasing social activities, improving our social support systems, developing positive relationships in family, friends and work relationships, taking time for ourselves, taking care of our needs, stopping and slowing down a little when we feel tired and exhausted, listening to what we need, resting for this need, slowing down a little, taking short breaks are the methods we recommend to increase psychological resilience."
