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| Anxiety Disorders |
| Anxiety - About Anxiety |
| Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:14 |
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Anxiety disorder can take many forms. It can affect many areas of our lives and prevent us from living in a way that would be suitable for us. The most frequent anxiety is a phobia, a intense and irrational fear of a situation or an object. Spiders always comes to mind: Arachnophobia. This specific phobia can be attached to any animal or object. Dogs, snakes, rats, water, germs, electors the list goes on. Phobias can arise at any time or age of life. Social phobia can develop during childhood out of extreme introversion for example. Once phobias are established they will not go away without help.  Generalized anxiety disorder is a general state of anxiety that continues over a period of time. 6 months or so. It is not attached to any situation or thing. The suffer finds daily responsibilities demanding. Concentration is testing and decision making is affected. Other physical symptoms could be present like sweating, clammy hands, churning upset stomach and even diarrhea. Panic disorder is an strong form of anxiety which happens suddenly without forewarning. The symptoms usually lead the suffer to feel like they are going to die. These attacks happen out of the blue. This makes them more terrifying and can frequently lead to agoraphobia. The suffer does not want to risk an attack so they do not leave the house. This could have a serve affect on social and fun activities. Obsessive compulsive disorder. Germs seem to be the main purpose for this anxiety disorder. The compulsion to wash is what we see in this case and the obsessive thoughts of contamination and disease make the suffer anxious and uneasy. The washing behavior is an attempt to alleviate the worry. Other forms we see with this disorder include; fear of harming yourself or others, intrusive sexual thoughts or religious issues. The behaviors can include repeated and ritualized touching Post Traumatic Stress disorder can happen to people who have experience a serve traumatic life event. This can include; war, rape, physical assault or finding a dead body. The main symptoms include distressing thoughts and images of the event replayed in the suffers head. Nightmares about the event or feeling and acting like the event is re occurring. There are quite a few treatments for anxiety disorders. The first step is to become educated and informed about the disorder. Learning how to manage stress, anger and depression is also a strategy. Cognitive training is useful to help deal with recurring unwanted thoughts and managed exposure to a phobia is also useful. Anxiety disorder can take many forms. It can affect many areas of our lives and prevent us from living in a way that would satisfy us. |