Anxiety & Stress Disorder: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Anxiety & Stress Disorder
What Are Anxiety Disorders?
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can be beneficial in some situations. It can alert us to dangers and help us prepare and pay attention. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness or anxiousness and involve excessive fear or anxiety. Anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders and affect nearly 30% of adults at some point in their lives.
But anxiety disorders are treatable and a number of effective treatments are available. Treatment helps most people lead normal productive lives.
Signs And Symptoms
Anxiety
- Often comes out of nowhere.
- Intense or disproportionate emotional response.
- Ongoing and lasts week or months.
- Interferes with day-to-day life.
- Physical symptoms like sweating, trembling, lightheadedness, racing heart.
- Feels impossible to control or manage.
Anxiety Disorders
- Often comes out of nowhere.
- Intense or disproportionate emotional response.
- Ongoing and lasts week or months.
- Interferes with day-to-day life.
- Physical symptoms like sweating, trembling, lightheadedness, racing heart.
- Feels impossible to control or manage.
Signs + Symptoms
Generalize Anxiety Disorder
Long-lasting anxiety not specific to a situation or object
- Can' t get rid of concerns.
- unrealistic view of problems
- Can't relax, startle easily.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Restlessness
- Fatigue, muscle tension, headaches.
- Trembling, twitching, irritability.
- Nausea, sweating
- Feeling out of breath
- Difficulty carrying out daily activities.
- Distress about making decisions for fear of making the wrong decision.
- Carrying every option in a situation all the way out to its possible negative conclusion.
- Difficulty handling uncertainty or indecisiveness.
Panic Disorder
Quick hit of terror often followed by trembling/difficulty breathing.
- Sudden and repeated attacks of fear
- A feeling of being out of control during a panic attack.
- An intense worry about when the next attack will happen.
- A fear or avoidance of places where panic attacks have occurred in the past.
- Pounding or racing heart, sweating, breathing problems, weakness or dizziness.
- Feeling hot or a cold chill, tingly or numb hands, chest pain, or stomach pain.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Intense fear in and of social interactions managed by avoidance.
- Anxious about being with other people and have a hard time talking to them.
- Self- conscious in front of other people and feel embarrassed.
- Afraid that other people will judge them.
- Worry for days or weeks before an event.
- Stay away from places where there are other people.
- Have a hard time making friends and keeping friends.
- Blush, sweat, or tremble around other people. Feel nauseous or sick to their stomach when
- with other people.
Why Anxiety Disorders Doesn’t Get Resolved On Time?
People with anxiety disorders sometimes quit their medications because of side effects or not understanding their illness. Many times, individual experiences chronic anxiety due to uncertainties, day-to-day stressors of life and familial expectations. This raises the risk of serious symptoms returning, which can lead to a psychotic episode (in which someone loses touch with reality).
Treatment Options
Anxiety disorders are typically treated with medication, psychotherapy, or a combination of both. Mental health professionals typically recommend therapy as part of a combined approach to treatment, in adjunct to the medical treatment. Beyond treatment, we can help you build a regular routine, which includes sleep hygiene, regular exercise, mood charting, etc.
Lastly, we can also help in minimizing the disabling effects of the disorder, by constant monitoring, and catching early warning signs through daily feedback calls. Long-term, continuous treatment can help people manage these symptoms.
Why Emoneeds And How We Help In Lasting Recovery?
- Living with anxiety disorder can be challenging, but there are ways to help make it easier for yourself, a friend, or a loved one. At Emoneeds, we support you in your journey to reduce your relapse and help you with lasting recovery.
- We have new and better treatment ideas to help patients recover better from the illness and also to prevent relapse, by providing them consistent support.
- We have tailor-made effective individual therapy sessions, cognitive remediation therapy program, family therapy and psychiatric consultations, in order to manage unwanted thoughts and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and also to manage the underlying anxiety.
- Anxiety disorder is a lifelong illness, but long-term, ongoing treatment can help manage symptoms and enable you to live a healthy life.
- Be a part of tomorrow’s medical breakthroughs. Talk to your health care provider about the treatment options, their benefits and risks, and which one is right for you.
