ANXIETY DISORDERS

What people think about Anxiety

Every person do have experience of anxiety once in a life. Some part of anxiety is always needed for life. There is very thin margin between anxiety and anxiety disorder. However, people with anxiety disorders frequently have intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations that make their day to day functioning difficult and persistent over a protracted period of your time.

Symptoms

• Feeling nervous, restless or tense, Inability to relax
• Having impending danger, panic or doom, fear of death
• Having an increased heart rate
• shortness of breath (hyperventilation)
• Sweating, Trembling, Feeling weak or tired
• Poor attention and concentration.
• Having sleep disturbances
• Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems, butterfly in the abdomen, frequent urge to pass stool,
• Having difficulty controlling worry
• Having the urge to avoid things that trigger anxiety

Several varieties of anxiety disorders exist:

•Agoraphobia could be a variety of anxiety disorder during which you fear and often avoid places or situations which may cause you to panic and make you feel trapped, helpless or embarrassed.
• Generalized anxiety disorder includes persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about general ordinary or routine activities or events.
• Panic disorder is repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror that reach a peak within minutes (panic attacks), characterized by feelings of impending doom, shortness of breath, chest pain, increased heart beats (palpitations). These situations may result in constant fear or worrying about them happening in future and that they start avoiding such situations during which they’ve occurred.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is characterized by Obsessions which are recurrent thoughts, ideas, images or impulses that are senseless, involuntary, unwanted and distressful and causing anxiety; and Compulsions which are repetitive mental or physical acts or rituals that are repetitive in nature and are performed to reduce the anxieties caused by the obsessions.
• Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is high levels of tension, fear and avoidance behavior of social situations because of feelings of embarrassment, self-consciousness, self-criticism and concern about being judged or viewed negatively by others.
• Specific phobias are characterized by major anxiety when you’re exposed to a particular object or situation and a desire to avoid it. Phobias provoke panic attacks in some people.

When people should seek about treatment

• You feel like you’re worrying too much, have chain of thoughts and it’s interfering your work, relationships or other part of life.
• You remain afraid, feel panic, or your worry or anxiety is upsetting you, negative thoughts, death wish or suicidal thoughts and difficult to regulate these.
• You feel depressed, have started alcohol or drug use and causing physical health problems.

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How UDGAM will help in treatment?

To help the diagnosis and treatment of an anxiety disorder and rule out other condition team UDGAM offers a psychological evaluation with an in depth history and mental status examination. The two main treatments for anxiety disorders are psychotherapy and medications. You’ll benefit most from a combination of the two.

Psychotherapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective form of psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. CBT includes cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, systematic desensitization, during which you gradually expose the thing or situation that triggers your anxiety so you build confidence that you simply can manage the situation and anxiety symptoms.

Medications

Certain antidepressants are useful to treat anxiety disorder, few benzodiazepines for short-term relief.

Few tips for Lifestyle changes and residential remedies

•Keep physically active
• Avoid alcohol and recreational drugs
• Quit smoking and reduce or quit drinking caffeinated beverages.
• Use stress management and relaxation techniques.
• Make sleep a priority
• Eat healthy