I plan to explore the subject matter “Data and Network” through an anxiety suffers mind. The idea behind this concept is our national lockdown due to Covids-19. As an anxiety suffer I have been live with fears about everyday life, I plan to compare this to the newly found fear of corona virus. I want to highlight that anxiety suffers live each day as if they were in a pandemic. Just like a data base is a “network of programming” an anxiety mindset is a “network of negative thoughts”.
As someone who has suffered generalised anxiety disorder for the upmost of 10 years now this project is something I am truly passionate about. Living with anxiety and its side effects isn’t the easiest but its not got me down!! Anxiety isn’t just panic attacks and heavy breathing, theres so much more to it. Let’s start with Anxiety as a topic, you have two parts, anxiety and generalised anxiety disorder. Generalised anxiety disorder is a chronic illness, something that affects the way your brain works and how it processes information, it also comes with a list of side effects that arn’t well known:
- trembling and shaking
- full body aches, muscle fatigue
- headaches
- sickness
- trouble sleeping
- heart irregulations/palputations
- excess sweating
- eyesight problems
- irregular breathing
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/generalised-anxiety-disorder/symptoms/
I also want to look and compare this against the worlds latest problem the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has sparked a lot of new fears especially in people who have never experienced anxiety. The emotional impact on corona virus and the public has been huge. A mass number of global worry, fear and uncertainty has taken over. What I want to highlight is that a person suffering anxiety has lived and will continue to live everyday in this mindset. I have created an online survey and handed it to 40 people in the general public, with this comes tailored questions about the emotional impact of covid 19. With this data I will collect and analyse the results, this should give me the basis to start my sampling.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-798YXZ7P7
below are some of the graph results:
These examples above take anxiety symptoms like “compulsive thinking” and “worried or anxious thoughts” and are applied to the public living through a pandemic in which 60 or above said yes to meaning they are experiencing right now what an anxiety riddled patient feels like everyday.
After collecting the data from the survey, over 60% of the population are now suffering from anxiety symptoms relation to the recent corona virus pandemic. This proves my theory that people are living in an anxiety suffers world.
lrichar3
Well written post and intriguing theme for the project. Very difficult to find visuals for this theme, but can you generate or find an image to support the text? Will you be adding any graphs or results from your surveys to this post?
Sophie Millan
Thankyou for your feedback! In regards to visuals I have started a print collection which involves my emotional responsive which should be interesting but also back up my data for other aspects of this concept, I have also added in and talked about the graph readings so hopefully should be a lot better now and more interesting. Theres also a couple of posts about the print project if you would like more detail.