Anxiety

How to Identify Anxiety?

How to treat Anxiety?

Anxiety disorders are the most common form of emotional disorder and can affect anyone at any age. Other ways people experience anxiety include nightmares, panic attacks, and painful thoughts or memories that you can’t control. You may have a general feeling of fear and worry, or you may fear a specific place or event.

In the case of an anxiety disorder in an adult, the feeling of fear may be with you all the time. It is intense and sometimes debilitating. An anxiety attack is a feeling of overwhelming apprehension, worry, distress, or fear. For many people, an anxiety attack builds slowly. It may worsen as a stressful event approaches.

 But, anxiety in children can also become chronic and persistent, developing into an anxiety disorder. Uncontrolled anxiety may begin to interfere with daily activities, and children may avoid interacting with their peers or family members.

Symptoms of an anxiety disorder might include jitteriness, irritability, sleeplessness, feelings of fear, shame, feelings of isolation, headache, stomachache, fast heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, muscle tension, rapid breathing, panic, nervousness, difficulty concentrating, irrational anger, restlessness.

There are more 8 types of anxiety disorders. Also anxiety is a key domain of several different disorders. These include:

• Panic disorder: experiencing recurring panic attacks at unexpected times. 

• Generalized anxiety disorder 

• Phobia: excessive fear of a specific object, situation, or activity

• Social anxiety disorder: extreme fear of being judged by others in social situations

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder: recurring irrational thoughts that lead you to perform specific, repeated behaviors

• Separation anxiety disorder: fear of being away from home or loved ones

• Illness anxiety disorder: anxiety about your health (formerly called hypochondria)

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): anxiety following a traumatic event

People need not feel is as mental illness but it’s a disorder which can be treated by the clinical therapist. Proper tests and assessments are available to know the levels of anxiety which are followed by therapies based on the type and level of anxiety in an individual.  Clinical prognosis helps in early stages of the disorder.

Some of the important therapies provided by our clinical psychologist would be CBT, DBT, Exposure therapy, Psychoanalytic therapy, bibiliotherapy, Acceptance and commitment therapy, Art therapy, Family therapy, Interpersonal therapy, etc.

The goal of all types of therapies for anxiety is to help you learn how to overcome your fear and calm your emotional reactions. Individual therapy will help to the improve quality. 

By     Ananthi, 

         Clinical Psychologist

         Life Healthcare Rehabilitation clinic PL

        

         ananthi.lhc@gmail.com