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Topic: Nervousness


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  Nervousness - WrongDiagnosis.com
Nervousness is usually used to describe mental states similar to anxiety, but with more obvious external symptoms, such as nail biting, fidgeting, etc. However, nervousness and anxiety are similar, and the causes of anxiety need to be examined for nervousness symptoms.
Nervousness needs also to be distinguished from restlessness or hyperactivity.
Nervousness usually has little to do with the physical nervous system.
www.wrongdiagnosis.com /sym/nervousness.htm   (751 words)

  
 HCC Psychology - Darren Smith
Some nervousness when speaking in front of a group is not only inevitable, it is also desirable.
If it can be controlled, your nervousness can be translated into excitement or enthusiasm, and that makes for a presentation that is exciting and interesting to the audience.
Excessive nervousness can not only take away any pleasure that doing the presentation may give you, but it may also have a negative effect on your performance.
www.hccfl.edu /adjunct/darren_smith/bbs-nerv.htm   (664 words)

  
 Homeopathy and Mental Health: Nervousness and Insomnia
Whether we are dealing with nervousness, anxiety or insomnia directly, or as a component to another chronic disorder, there are a number of common homeopathic formulas that will often test positive.
However, when dealing with nervousness, insomnia, and many other conditions, your patient's lifestyle management is essential to your successful management of their health.
Other symptoms of nervousness or insomnia are over-sensitivity to all the senses; sensitivity to disorder or noise; nervous indigestion; and frightening dreams at night.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/15/06/13.html   (1103 words)

  
 Nervousness
If the symptoms are mild, the disorder is termed "nervousness." There are few who have not experienced a feeling of tension or an attack of "jitters." Many people get such attacks frequently and often without apparent cause.
When the attacks of nervousness, anxiety or "jitters" are severe and frequent the disorder is known as a neurosis or psychoneurosis.
Headache, fatigue, "nervous stomach," anxiety and insomnia are among the symptoms of everyday nervousness or neurosis for which bromides are taken.
www.oldandsold.com /articles35/health-and-medicine-42.shtml   (1364 words)

  
 Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders, THE MERCK MANUAL OF HEALTH & AGING
Anxiety is intense nervousness or worrying that interferes with the ability to function.
Nervousness or worrying is a normal response to a threat or to stress.
Nervousness and worrying may be accompanied at any time by restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and a sense of increased muscle tension.
www.merck.com /pubs/mmanual_ha/sec3/ch32/ch32c.html   (1059 words)

  
 Chapt. One, III.15-18; Nervousness; Teaching; Uprights, Grands & Electronics; Beginners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nervousness makes us concentrate all our energies towards the critical task at hand and is therefore another beneficial survival tool of evolution.
Nervousness is generally worst before a performance; once you start playing, you are so busy with the task at hand that there is no time to dwell on nervousness, thus reducing the growth factor.
Of course, nervousness is a very individual behavior and there is a wide range of reactions from those who don't get nervous, to those who suffer terribly from stage fright.
members.aol.com /chang8825/teaching.htm   (16057 words)

  
 The causes of American nervousness are complicated, but are not beyond analysis: First of all modem civilization
All that is said here of American nervousness refers only to a fraction of American society; for in America, as in all lands, the majority of the people are muscle-workers rather than brain-workers; have little education, and are not striving for honor, or expecting eminence or wealth.
The relation of noise to nervousness and nervous diseases is a subject of not a little interest; but one which seems to have been but incidentally studied.
A factor in producing American nervousness is, beyond dispute, the liberty allowed, and the stimulus given, to where millions of excellent people are in constant disagreement about the way to heaven.
condor.depaul.edu /~history/webresources/usprimary/Beard.htm   (2671 words)

  
 Nervousness, worry may predict suicide risk - Mental Health - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Almost 14 percent of women reported experiencing “light” problems with nervousness, anxiety, and uneasiness and nearly 4 percent said their problems were “severe” in comparison to 7 percent and 2 percent of men, respectively.
The risk of suicide attempt grew even stronger with time, such that for men in particular, nervousness and anxiety was associated with a 15-fold increased risk of attempted suicide during the 10-year follow-up period.
In fact, severe nervousness or anxiety problems among men more strongly predicted their risk of death from all causes in a 5- or 10-year time frame than did smoking or longstanding illness, the researchers note.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9042444   (653 words)

  
 The Enneagram Institute Discussion Board - Fear versus nervousness
Nervousness is a way of expressing fear, like frustration is of anger.
Posted - 08 Feb 2006 : 05:00:56 AM I would say nervousness is more like a personality trait - something internal - whereas fear is of something concrete, an external threat of some kind.
Nervousness for specific situations can be about a wider variety- something that is a positive stressor (such as an upcoming promotion or wedding) may still make you nervous.
www.enneagraminstitute.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11985   (961 words)

  
 Sunday School Growth
Since there's more than one kind of nervousness (as the previous scenes suggest), we need a system that addresses all the different ways in which we feel nervous, a single system that addresses the physical manifestations of nervousness-butterflies in the stomach, dry mouth, wet palms-as well as the mental manifestations- negative self-talk, fear, and apprehension.
The differences between those who appear to be free of nervousness and those who suffer the devastating effects of obvious nervousness at the front of the room is control.
This is because nervousness is rooted in psychological stress (fear of failure) that manifests itself in physical symptoms (fast pulse, shallow breathing, dry mouth, sweaty palms, sick stomach, strange voice, and jittery knees).
www.joshhunt.com /nervous.html   (2555 words)

  
 Managing Nervousness During Oral Presentations
Some nervousness when speaking in front of a group is not only inevitable, it's also desirable.
Excessive nervousness can take away any pleasure that doing the presentation may give you, but it may also have a negative effect on your performance.
Learning more about the impact of nervousness (by reading this Fastfacts, for example) is an important first step to controlling any negative effect nervousness may have on your performance or your marks.
www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca /ByTopic/Learning/LearningGeneral/LearningGeneralLearningFastfacts/Fastfacts-ManagingNervousness.html   (984 words)

  
 Study Links Anxiety, Nervousness to Suicide
Yet those who reported severe problems of nervousness, anxiety, and uneasiness had about double to triple the risk of death during the study period.
Men who had reported severe problems with anxiety, nervousness, or unease were nine times more likely to attempt suicide over the next five years than men who didn't report such problems.
Women reporting severe anxiousness, nervousness, or unease were 3.4 times as likely to attempt suicide as those who didn't report those problems in the survey.
www.webmd.com /content/article/109/109431.htm   (345 words)

  
 Health First - Nervousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nervousness is an emotional reaction to all sorts of stresses, good or bad.
It is a term used to represent many things such as being nervous, apprehensive, uneasy, tense, on edge, fearful, or jumpy.
An attack of nerves, stage fright, a case of the "heebie-jeebies," or "going to pieces" are expressions of nervousness.
www.healthfirst.net.au /content/view/686/42   (245 words)

  
 Nervousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Their study of more than 34,000 people shows men with high levels of nervousness and anxiety are nine-times more likely to attempt suicide over the next five years then men with lower levels of these stressors.
Overall, people with severe nervousness and anxiety were about twice as likely to actually take their own lives and between three- and four-times as likely to be admitted to the hospital for mental health problems.
Over a five-year period, people who'd reported severe anxiety and nervousness problems were twice as likely to die and three to four times more likely to be admitted to hospital for treatment of mental health problems, compared to people who did not suffer from anxiety or nervousness.
thestressoflife.com /nervousness.htm   (492 words)

  
 The Malady Called Nervousness
It is utterly erroneous to think of nervousness as a simple or passing problem.
We, thus, unknowingly, build a cesspit of negativities and are entrapped in the quagmire of acute nervousness.
It has been often related in Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan’s spiritual discourses that, "Nervousness, whether psychological or mechanical, can be banished from its roots by regular meditation on inner light of consciousness.
www.selfgrowth.com /articles/Maharaj2.html   (686 words)

  
 Paramahansa Yogananda Tips against Nervousness - The Gold Scales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Realize that all power to think "We are incompatible and tire of each other and even the size of limes" comes from God and may cause nervousness.
Realize that all power to think, to speak, and to act, comes from God, and that He is with you now, guiding and inspiring you.
The particular disturbance of equilibrium which we call nervousness, may be caused by great and continuous excitement.
oaks.nvg.org /pv3bk15.html   (850 words)

  
 Help with mental problem (nervousness, irritability, restlessness) - ABC Homeopathy Forum
When all experts on this forum agree on a constitutional medicine and its potency then start her treatment.
I would be interested in what actually is causing this nervousness, irritability and restlessness, how long she has had these symptoms, what was happening prior the onset.
Nervousness, not being able to sleep, heart is always bothered.
www.abchomeopathy.com /forum2.php/67108   (1778 words)

  
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Almost 14 percent of women reported experiencing light problems with nervousness, anxiety and uneasiness, and nearly 4 percent said their problems were severe, while the numbers for men were about half that.
Moreover, men who reported severe anxiety or nervousness had a higher general mortality rate than that predicted by any other factor, even long-standing illnesses or smoking.
reporting nervousness, uneasiness and anxiety jumped from 12 percent in 1988-1989 to 22 percent in 2001-2002.
www.mercola.com /2005/sep/10/high_anxiety_nervousness_escalate_suicide_risks.htm   (579 words)

  
 Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
It is well-known today that there are many people who complain of nervousness and all that this implies, and we are hardly surprised when the statement is made that there is none who is not afflicted.
Considering present social conditions to which all this nervousness can be attributed, such a statement can be readily understood.
Nervousness becomes manifest in a variety of ways, most obviously perhaps when a person becomes an emotional fidgety-gibbet, that is to say, someone who constantly jumps from one thought to another and is unable to hold a single thought in his head, let alone carry it through to a conclusion.
wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/OvrNer_index.html   (4067 words)

  
 Is perceived nervousness and anxiety a predictor of premature mortality and severe morbidity? A longitudinal follow up ...
Is perceived nervousness and anxiety a predictor of premature mortality and severe morbidity?
Mean age was 42.3 for men and 43.0 for women (not shown in table).
Re: Is perceived nervousness and anxiety a predictor of premature mortality and severe morbidity?
jech.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/59/9/794   (3293 words)

  
 SPEAKING NERVOUSNESS Gone in 24 Hours
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www.changethatsrightnow.com /fear-of-public-speaking.asp?SDID=6565:1570   (735 words)

  
 Nervousness -- Shaking and Sweaty Hands
Drugs such as propranolol are sometimes prescribed to musicians with excessive tremors due to nervousness because of the effects on the brain.
The way I've always gotten rid of stage nervousness and the physical effects of it was to play for at least one hour right before getting on stage.
The nervousness is usually a result of one simple thing: a situation that we do not have any control over.
www.violinist.com /discussion/response.cfm?ID=7336   (7568 words)

  
 Nervousness and Public Speaking
Nervousness, speech anxiety, stage fright, platform panic - it's known by many names, but it's a problem every speaker must confront.
It shows that your speech is important to you and that you care about doing well.
But unless you can manage and control your nervousness, it can keep you from becoming an effective speaker.
members.shaw.ca /toasted/nervousness.htm   (202 words)

  
 That busyness that is not business: nervousness and character at the turn of the last century Social Research - Find ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
That busyness that is not business: nervousness and character at the turn of the last century
It denoted the scurry and bustle of a dynamic civilization; it also suggested pointless and unproductive nervousness, and even degeneracy or decline.
Americans recast nervousness and busyness as a problem of racial degeneracy to avoid confronting the contradictions within their notion of individualism.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2267/is_2_72/ai_n15763227   (1039 words)

  
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Nervousness does not show nearly as much as the speaker thinks.
Use your nervousness as a helpmate rather than letting it use you.
Accept nervousness as a natural way to help you to be alert, sharp, and energized to do your best.
www.wm.edu /wrc/handouts/SevenPointsonNervousness.doc   (639 words)

  
 Public speaking tips - how to control nervousness while public speaking by Nancy Daniels - Voice Dynamic
The results are voices that may quiver or shake; voices exhibiting breathlessness, an increase in habitual ticks or repetitious uhs or ums; ‘pained’ expressions or lack of it.
The absolute best means for controlling nervousness in speaking is to breathe, allowing your diaphragm to do the work.
The Voice Dynamic Approach solves this problem so that you can concentrate on what you are saying and not your nervousness.
www.voicedynamic.com /controlnervous.htm   (300 words)

  
 Anxiety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning, when faced in extreme mortal dangers the very basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat this "trauma of nonbeing" as death is near and to succumb to it (even by suicide) seems like a way out.
Test anxiety is the uneasiness, apprehension, or nervousness felt by students who have a fear of failing an exam.
Students suffering from test anxiety may experience any of the following: the association of grades with personal worth, embarrassment by a teacher, taking a class that is beyond their ability, fear of alienation from parents or friends, time pressures, or feeling a loss of control.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nervousness   (1664 words)

  
 Nervousness
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 What do you do to combat nervousness before an event?
General stuff like where they are from, how long they have been doing tri's....and I have met some that were there for their first Tri and are nervous, so I do what I can to talk them down.
Now...if the nervousness is due to something else (lotsa people, the swim start, open water, waves and salt water, whatever), then you can practice your way through those over time.
Anxiety and Nervousness are part of your body getting ready.
www.beginnertriathlete.com /discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=51071   (2267 words)

  
 Nervousness!
when you are asked to speak to others is a normal reaction, then you can also learn how to use that nervousness to your advantage too.
The first step in controlling your nervousness is a relatively simple task, you must know and understand your subject material you're about to present.
Lack of knowledge and confidence about your subject is a very hard thing to hide from your listeners, because it is easily communicated by you during your presentation, thrust me, it really shows.
www.tlcsem.com /pnervous.htm   (433 words)

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