Mindful-Based Intervention And Anxiety Essay

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Assessment C BIOQ121 Carly Allen Word count: 745 A review of the effectiveness of Mindful Based Interventions in the treatment of Anxiety. Anxiety is used to describe a plethora of emotional states. It is a feeling which can be useful in aiding motivation to accomplish tasks perceived as necessary and is associated with eustress, it could also manifest to worry or escalate to severe panic (Australian government 2013). It is a normal response to a stressful situation and can entail psychological and physiological responses and also arise outside of conscious attention, triggering responses in the nervous system similar to that of the “fight/flight”…show more content…
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