Anxiety is an emotion, a feeling of anxiety, a feeling of worry, and an unpleasant state of inner turmoil. It is usually accompanied by certain behaviors, such as pace back and forth, symptoms of physical discomfort and confusing thoughts.
Anxiety emotions usually affect all levels of body and mind, and overreact to situations that are subjectively considered threatening. It is often accompanied by muscle tension, irritability, fatigue, breathing tightness, abdominal tension and inattention.
Anxiety is a topic with a wide range of causes, manifestations and effects. It can be simply divided into: anxiety that reaches the degree of disease diagnosis (such as common separation anxiety disorders in psychiatry, selective mutism , specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder , specific place phobia, generalized anxiety disorder). Anxiety that does not reach the level of disease diagnosis but affects the quality of life (easy to fatigue, keep turning your head, unable to relax, procrastinate, always thinking for a long time but not taking action, wanting to concentrate on doing things but thinking about things).
When anxiety comes, the world is about to be destroyed. When anxiety falls, life returns to normal, as if the previous state is another world. Next, we can observe ourselves from three major angles and four major symptoms:
Anxiety intensity: Do you often feel your own anxiety reach a level that is unbearable to yourself? Even friends around you will think you are too nervous or fussy?
persistence: People will have certain specific worries from time to time, but does your anxiety seem to be not paused? Almost taking up most of the day? Often, I can’t stop anxiety for several days?
Interference: Does your anxiety interfere with interpersonal, work or life functions? Make it impossible for you to complete your responsibilities or plans? Will it even make you have to reduce the schedule of certain expected activities to avoid anxiety (such as avoiding gatherings with friends, reducing the door to go out because it is difficult to make a decision)?
Anxiety can be divided into four main symptoms, including:
Physiological symptoms: Accelerated heartbeat (palpitations), accelerated breathing, unable to breathe, chest pain or stuffy, dizziness, sweating and chills, dry mouth , nausea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, tight or paralysis, tight and stiff body, and weakness.
Cognitive symptoms: Fear of losing control, afraid of going crazy, afraid of specific people and things, difficulty concentrating, easy to be distracted, poor memory, poor thinking flexibility, and decreased judgment.
Behavioral symptoms: Fission, speechlessness, excessive ventilation, procrastination, escape, continuous meaningless habitual behavior, seeking guarantees.
Emotional symptoms: Nervous, fear, uneasiness, neurotic, impatient, frustration.
So, how are anxiety disorders generally treated? Treatment of anxiety or diseases can be roughly divided into the following items:
1. Behavioral treatment
Anxiety troubles may be caused by the dangers of a specific environment or internal message sent by the body (only the fatigue accumulated in a state of high energy consumption anxiety may cause the body to continue to send a tight signal). Therefore, identifying these specific internal and external environments that can cause anxiety and directly deal with, avoid or adjust their impact under reasonable circumstances can further reduce the troubles of anxiety.
Long-term anxiety trouble will make the body in a state where it continues to emit tight signals. Relaxation through physiological state is also a way to reduce anxiety troubles. These methods can be specific relaxation methods (such as adequate and appropriate sleep, bathing, massage, electrotherapy, etc.), or specific relaxation training skills (such as self-suggested relaxation training, self-hypnosis healing, and progressive muscle relaxation training).
2. Cognitive treatment
Cognitive treatment focuses on the causes of anxiety and the thoughts that make people painful, and focuses on how thoughts affect anxiety. People who are troubled by anxiety usually have some thoughts or thinking patterns that easily cause themselves to fall into an anxious state. Therefore, treatment will first learn the relationship between thoughts, emotions (anxiety) and behavior, and by perceiving the specific impact of their own thinking patterns, then try to adjust their thinking patterns in different ways, and finally continue to practice these methods of adjusting thinking in treatment and life, and then change behavior, habits and emotions.
3. Drug treatment
Drug treatment is a way to quickly improve anxiety symptoms. When anxiety symptoms seriously affect the overall living conditions, drug treatment can temporarily interrupt the aforementioned vicious cycle of brain anxiety-body tension, assist in restoring or maintaining the original life function and stability, but most of the time you may still be worried about the side effects of the drug, need to repeatedly increase the drug dose, or stopping the drug may recur.
4. Drug treatment and psychotherapy are parallel
Generally speaking, some drugs are designed to completely eliminate or avoid the feeling of anxiety, while cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnosis therapy are designed to learn to tolerate anxiety or adjust the intensity of anxiety. If you want to try to deal with your anxiety in a non-drug way first, or if you hope to slowly reduce the use of therapeutic drugs, you can discuss with the outpatient physician the possibility of helping yourself through non-drug treatment (behavioral therapy and cognitive therapy).
At this time, finding a professional person to conduct relevant consultation first is also a way. Psychological consultation can organize and analyze your past years of medical history, medications you have taken, tried, experience of success and failure. Analyzing and understanding the experience of failure is a very important thing in treatment. If you can gain experience from it and fine-tune the way of conducting it, on the one hand, it is easy to adapt and integrate into your life, and on the other hand, it will not bring too much changes and add new sources of anxiety.
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