Mental Wellness: Anxiety, Counselling Strategies and Benefits Analysis

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of mental wellness, primarily focusing on anxiety as a prevalent disorder and the effectiveness of counselling as a therapeutic strategy. The assignment begins by defining anxiety, detailing its physical and psychological impacts, including its potential to exacerbate physical illnesses and other mental health conditions such as depression, panic disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. It also explores the symptoms of anxiety, such as restlessness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and suicidal thoughts. The assignment then transitions to discuss counselling as a key method to manage anxiety and enhance overall well-being. It highlights counselling's role in breaking down complex problems, teaching new coping techniques, improving communication skills, boosting self-confidence, and fostering cooperation. The role of the therapist in providing an outside perspective and redirecting the client's focus towards solutions is also emphasized. The assignment concludes by underscoring the benefits of counselling for individuals and the broader community, including its contribution to health, safety, and overall well-being.

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Question 1
Anxiety is considered as the most important disorder that tends to affect the mental state
tremendously. It tends to affect both physically as well as psychologically, and it is to be noted
that it is very much distressing. However, it is to be noted that having anxiety for a long time
tends to enhance the danger of physical illness and other types of mental health conditions like
that of the depression. 1The anxiety in an individual can also lead the individual to suffer from
sudden attacks of panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder. The individuals who tend to suffer from
some form of anxiety also tend to suffer from disorders like post-traumatic stress. It also leads an
individual to have fear or worry about the events that is about to take place in the future. It
makes the individual have a fast rate of the heart as well as from shakiness. However, it is to be
noted that an individual who is suffering from some form of anxiety also tends to feel very much
nervous or tense; they tend to go through a feeling of restlessness. Various studies that have been
conducted indicate the fact that anxiety in an individual often leads the individual to suffer from
some form of fatigue as well. It is because of the constant anxiety in the mind of the individual,
the individual fails to put his or her full concentration over a particular work that he or she is
doing. Anxiety also disturbs the sleep pattern of the individual. It may also lead the individual to
suffer from insomnia.2 Anxiety in an individual also makes an individual have suicidal thoughts
as well. People going through some form of anxiety problems often worry a lot. They often fail
to control their worries as well. Anxiety in the individual also makes the individual feel restless
1 Spielberger, C.D. ed., 2013. Anxiety and behavior. Academic Press.
2 Levitt, E.E., 2015. The psychology of anxiety. Routledge.

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and irritated all the time. They fail to relax, and they tend to ignore the people and places like
meetings, gatherings or parties. However, one of the best ways to get rid of anxiety is through the
counselling or medications.
Question 2
Counseling is one of the best strategy that tends to enhance the health, safety and
wellbeing of others, MGH community as well as of the others. Counselling is considered as one
of the best method to deal with disorders like anxiety, depression and grief. In the session of
counselling, the therapist or the person who deals with the patient tends to break down the reason
or the problem into smaller parts. 3The therapist also tends to break the problem of the disorder
into more manageable parts. On participating in the counselling sessions, the therapist helps the
individuals to learn new techniques and methods in dealing with different types of disorders
which are related to anxiety. Counselling also helps the patients to acquire various kinds of skills
and talents through communication. The counselling also helps the individuals to gain more
confidence in themselves. The counselling also helps the individuals to have good cooperation
with the others. The counselling helps the individuals to understand the root cause of the problem
and work accordingly.4 It even helps in attracting and even retaining good talent. It is considered
as one of the humanistic approaches for the development of the individuals. In the session of the
counselling, the therapist tends to provide outside perspective. They also tend to redirect the
3 Mearns, D., Thorne, B. and McLeod, J., 2013. Person-centred counselling in action. Sage.
4 Bond, T., 2015. Standards and ethics for counselling in action. Sage.

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thoughts and focus of the client from the problem to that of the solution hence, the strategy of
counselling is considered as one of the best ways to enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of
my others and the MGH community.

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References
Bond, T., 2015. Standards and ethics for counselling in action. Sage.
Levitt, E.E., 2015. The psychology of anxiety. Routledge.
Mearns, D., Thorne, B. and McLeod, J., 2013. Person-centred counselling in action. Sage.
Spielberger, C.D. ed., 2013. Anxiety and behavior. Academic Press.