Treatement - Anxiety

What Is Anxiety?                    

Anxiety is a general term for several disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worrying. These disorders affect how we feel and behave, and they can manifest real physical symptoms. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can be extremely debilitating, having a serious impact on daily life.

People often experience a general state of worry or fear before confronting something challenging such as a test, examination, recital, or interview. These feelings are easily justified and considered normal. Anxiety is considered a problem when symptoms interfere with a person's ability to sleep or otherwise function. Generally speaking, anxiety occurs when a reaction is out of proportion with what might be normally expected in a situation.

Anxiety disorders can be classified into several more specific types. The most common are briefly described below.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a chronic disorder characterized by excessive, long-lasting anxiety and worry about nonspecific life events, objects, and situations. GAD sufferers often feel afraid and worry about health, money, family, work, or school, but they have trouble both identifying the specific fear and controlling the worries. Their fear is usually unrealistic or out of proportion with what may be expected in their situation. Sufferers expect failure and disaster to the point that it interferes with daily functions like work, school, social activities, and relationships.

What is Social Anxiety Disorder?

Social Anxiety Disorder is a type of social phobia characterized by a fear of being negatively judged by others or a fear of public embarrassment due to impulsive actions. This includes feelings such as stage fright, a fear of intimacy, and a fear of humiliation. This disorder can cause people to avoid public situations and human contact to the point that normal life is rendered impossible.

What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?

Separation Anxiety Disorder is characterized by high levels of anxiety when separated from a person or place that provides feelings of security or safety. Sometimes separation results in panic, and it is considered a disorder when the response is excessive or inappropriate.

What is The Best Treatment for Anxiety? How to find treatment for Anxiety that suits you?

There are many ways to treat anxiety and depression, and not all of them will be suitable for you, you need to monitor yourself closely and learn your own condition more, then decide if the recommended treatment works for you or not. One of the key disappointments of many treatment methods used independently, they might be effective for some people, but won’t be able to help most people without a proper treatment plan.

Let’s find out more about common treatment for anxiety:

1. Medication – Use of anti-anxiety and anti-depressant requires prescription from doctor, and only under guidance and monitor from doctor or qualified psychiatrist, the patient will receive the correct dosage, minimize the danger of side effects.

2. Herbal – This is considered an alternative treatment for anxiety. However, the Chinese and native people had used them for thousands of years to cure the problems, and studies find that they are as effective as prescription medicine without the side effect, and if you don’t want side effect or prescription medication doesn’t work for you, you can try Herbal based medicine.

3. Relaxation Exercise – Taiji and QiGong are very good relaxation exercises, it can help to relax your mind and body, and restore them to a healthier stat, balance up your body chemical and reduce your mind anxiety and stop feeding anxious sense to the body.

4. Regular Exercise – 30 Minutes of regular exercise every day will reduce the panic attack, and shorten the duration during panic attacks, and eventually eliminate anxiety. When doing exercise, your mind will be distracted from thinking something anxious, and your body will be healthier, less symptoms of anxiety will occur. That’s why exercise is vital in every treatment plan for anxiety.

5. Psychological Treatment for Anxiety – One of the most common and effective anxiety treatments is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and this method can be used with drugs or without drug. However, herbal based anxiety relief medicine is highly recommended. See Relora Review and Native Medicine Review for more information. There are many types of CBT program online and offline, and 2 of the most popular and effective methods are Panic Puzzle, The Linden Method and Panic Away, find out more about them at Panic Puzzle Review, The Linden Method Review and Panic Away Review.

6. Diaphragmatic or Deep Breathing Exercise – Using special deep breathing technique to help relax the mind and body, increase the oxygen level and reduce chemical imbalance in the body in the body. This kind of techniques has proven itself to be effective for most sufferers to reduce duration and frequency of panic attacks.

7. Complementary Therapies – These are not exactly treatment for anxiety, but rather to restore health and strength of the body. Namely, Messages, Shiatsu, Tuina (Chinese acupressure treatment), Guasa, Acupuncture and Aromatherapy. Once or twice a week would help to relax the body and mind, and should do it regularly to see results.