Mental Illness And Social Anxiety - 1715 Words

PATHWAY Mental illness in social situations mainly focusing on anxiety, social anxiety, anxiety attack and panic attacks and how one may cope with the symptoms and or be relieved of these symptoms. Monitor - Predicting an attack before it even happens - preventing the attack from happening e.g. getting the individual out of the situation. If the individual is no removed from the situation or the attack is not prevented it leads into protect there should be a way to either monitor the individual but also a way to protect them during the attack, this can include calming them down getting them out of the situation or warning other surrounding them to their condition which also leads to connect. RESEARCH History There is no exact history of†¦show more content†¦Being open or vocal about anxiety or displaying symptoms that could not be explained by others often resulted in being ‘treated’ either by tortured (in Spain), execution (in Britain) or burning at the stake (in Scotland). Victorian Era In the Victorian era women who were anxious in any way were thought to be insane, the anxiety experienced at this time was due to women being trapped inside without a job or anything to do, this led to strange behaviour such as making objects out of human hair and also led to anxiety. If you experienced panic attacks on a regular basis you were extremely likely to be sent to an insane asylum by your family. Treatments include electroshock therapy and lobotomisation and later a treatment that could be used at home was invented, known today as the vibrator. American Civil War Era It was in this era that men were first recognised to have anxiety related issues. They suffered form something called ‘irritable heart syndrome’ with symptoms being heart palpitations and shortness of breath, today it is known as PTSD. One treatment for it was opium, which they did not know the level of addictiveness at this time as well as ethyl alcohol and bromide salts. These treatments however were only short term and did not solve anything in the long run. Early 20th Century This was when it was first recognised by the Russians