BIO Web of Conferences (Jan 2024)

Visualization as a method of overcoming anxiety and nervous tension, reducing symptoms of depression and stress in difficult life situation

  • Makarova Elena,
  • Degtyareva Elena,
  • Kholina Oksana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20248404012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 84
p. 04012

Abstract

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The problem of overcoming anxiety and nervous tension has turned out to be one of the most pressing in the modern world, which has found itself in an unprecedented situation of uncertainty and instability. Like many other significant negative processes on a global scale, it provoked an increase in people’s anxiety levels. A person’s uncertainty about tomorrow, without the opportunity to live a normal way of life, has created the preconditions for the occurrence of excessive emotional reactions to ongoing events, a decrease in performance and the perception of the surrounding world or many objects within it as potentially dangerous or stressful. The study showed that adaptive coping strategies are interconnected with the processes of self-knowledge, revaluation of values and positive self-attitude, visualization bei8ng one of them.These coping strategies include the use of visualization techniques in situations that are accompanied by anxiety, nervous tension, stress and depression. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that in the era of instability and uncertainty, people experience stress much more often. This technique can not only help cheer up, but also help improve well-being. Anxiety causes fear; sudden mood swings; tearfulness; irritability; persistently low mood, gloomy forebodings.