Sometimes people can feel anxious about their everyday lives and certain events. There are different kinds of anxiety disorders that people can get. Panic disorders are episodes of fear that strike often and sometimes without any warning.
If you are suffering from shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness and have a ongoing fear of death and levels of distress that are higher than your friends or associates then there is a good chance you are having a anxiety attack. The best known anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder, it used to be solely associated with soldiers who have returned home from war, that is changing over time.
Obsessive compulsive disorder are compulsive behaviors that you can not control and have trouble stopping. This may be something like constant washing of your hands, checking your windows and doors are locked constantly or repeatedly flushing the toilet.
Phobias and anxiety often come hand in hand, you could be suffering from either a social phobia or a specific phobia. Social phobia is harder to deal with, when you have specific phobia you are phobic of one thing , spiders for example, so you avoid them. Social phobia can cause you to avoid every social situation.
A vast number of people suffer with generalized anxiety disorder, constant worrying about their daily routine and events that are happening to them. These events will often seem of no consequence to others but they will cause huge anxiety to the sufferer. This anxiety can display as fatigue, tension and even constant headaches and nausea.
Anxiety disorders have traditionally been treated with a mixture of drugs and psychotherapy. People often have years of treatment and some people never recover enough to enjoy a full life.
As anxiety disorder become better understood and more widely reported the medical industry has started to come up with newer and hopefully more effective medications for people who suffer from both specific and social anxiety.
When we talk about using therapy to treat anxiety we normally mean either behavioral therapy or cognitive behavior therapy, they focus on changing your actions and will try and stop the behaviors that are unwanted from happening.
If you act certain ways in a specific situation and that causes you anxiety then you need to change the way you act. That is the basic theory behind the use of cognitive behavioral therapy. - 29881
If you are suffering from shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness and have a ongoing fear of death and levels of distress that are higher than your friends or associates then there is a good chance you are having a anxiety attack. The best known anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder, it used to be solely associated with soldiers who have returned home from war, that is changing over time.
Obsessive compulsive disorder are compulsive behaviors that you can not control and have trouble stopping. This may be something like constant washing of your hands, checking your windows and doors are locked constantly or repeatedly flushing the toilet.
Phobias and anxiety often come hand in hand, you could be suffering from either a social phobia or a specific phobia. Social phobia is harder to deal with, when you have specific phobia you are phobic of one thing , spiders for example, so you avoid them. Social phobia can cause you to avoid every social situation.
A vast number of people suffer with generalized anxiety disorder, constant worrying about their daily routine and events that are happening to them. These events will often seem of no consequence to others but they will cause huge anxiety to the sufferer. This anxiety can display as fatigue, tension and even constant headaches and nausea.
Anxiety disorders have traditionally been treated with a mixture of drugs and psychotherapy. People often have years of treatment and some people never recover enough to enjoy a full life.
As anxiety disorder become better understood and more widely reported the medical industry has started to come up with newer and hopefully more effective medications for people who suffer from both specific and social anxiety.
When we talk about using therapy to treat anxiety we normally mean either behavioral therapy or cognitive behavior therapy, they focus on changing your actions and will try and stop the behaviors that are unwanted from happening.
If you act certain ways in a specific situation and that causes you anxiety then you need to change the way you act. That is the basic theory behind the use of cognitive behavioral therapy. - 29881
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