Anxiety

Anxiety, stress, unable to cope can be one of the most common and most frightening issues that come through our door for help. All consuming and impacting every day and every evening need not be your coninued experience. There are many tried and tested ways of working with anxiety that produce fast and long lasting results. Once the anxiety is in-check we like to also look at how we got to this state and what could make you less vulnerable to experiencing unmanageable anxiety.

 

 


The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists criteria for currently recognized psychiatric conditions. According to its fourth edition (DSM-IV), GAD is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry for more days than not for a period of six months. During this period, people who suffer with this find it difficult or impossible to control their worries. At a minimum, three of the following six associated symptoms are present; being easily tired, poor sleep, poor concentration, irritable mood, muscle tension, feelings of restlessness or edginess.

Although everyone experiences occasional anxiety, some people feel anxious much more of the time. They may, in fact, suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). It has been studied that two to four percent of the population suffers from GAD; it is one of the more common of the psychiatric disorders.

A degree of some anxiety is normal. There are those who theorize that it even helps to produce positive adaptive behaviours. For instance, some individuals work best under the pressure of deadlines. This may be due to the aspect that the resulting anxiety motivates them. However, when feelings of apprehension, fear, hyper-vigilance or foreboding interfere with important tasks of daily life, it is time to seek help. There are many effective types of treatment and ways of working available to you. The best two are Cognitive Behavioural Therapies to get a hold on and decrease the anxiety and further therapy to work out how you got ot this disabling position in the first place. If you syptoms are extreem sometimes we will look at short term help with medication especially if we are considering Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.

Anxiety

Is your anxiety experienced as debilitating in essential areas of your life? For example, are you unable to perform on the job, to even leave your home, then the sooner you seek help the more effective the results. If your anxiety tends to be present only at certain times or is situation-specific, you may react quickly to behavioural therapy.

There are a few known, though rare, medical conditions that present acute anxiety among their recognizable symptoms. If you have never previously sought treatment, or have not had a recent check-up, you should be seen for a physical examination and blood tests by an internist, a primary care doctor, or family practitioner.

Whatever your situation you must seek help. You do not have to continue living like you are on the edge of a cliff or sleeping with a gun under your pillow.

 

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