Anxiety or panic disorder is the body’s natural response or stimulation to danger or fear, it is an automatic alarm inside the body that goes off the moment you feel feared or threatened when you are under pressure or while facing a stressful situation.
In a modernized word, anxiety is not always a bad thing. As a matter of fact and anxiety can help you to stay completely alert and focused, boost you to act and can also motivate in solving your problems. But the problem arises only when the anxiety is constant and continues while overwhelming, an anxiety affects your relationships and daily activities, it makes you halt being functional in regular activity. It is a state when you have crossed the line from being normal and productive anxiety level into the level of territory anxiety disorder.
What are the visible symptoms that indicate an anxiety disorder?
If you are found to be identified with some or several of the following symptoms and signs, then you might be suffering from panic or anti-anxiety disorder.
- The person suffering will be constantly tense or always worried
- An Anxiety aroused will interfere with your official work, education and family responsibilities?
- The patient will be always plagued by fears
- Anxiety attack patients will always think that something will go wrong if it is not done in proper way.
- They will avoid many situations every day; they will avoid many activities because they have a fear that it will cause them an anxiety
- They experience sudden and unexpected attack of heart-pounding panic frequently
- They feel like being in danger and some catastrophe is always around every corner
What are the Signs and symptoms of panic or anxiety disorders?
An anxiety disorder occurs in a group of related conditions rather than a single factor; anxiety disorder is not similar among patients but they are very different from individual to individual. One person may suffer from extreme anxiety attacks that can strike him without any warning signs, while in some cases another person gets a panic attack at the very first thought of mingling in a group party. Some case the person may struggle with an inability or fear of driving vehicle or flow of uncontrollable and intrusive thoughts. Yet some patients may live in a stagnant state of tension in worrying about everything and anything.
Apart from their different forms, all anxiety disorders are common in one major symptom panic or fear of things getting wrong
What are the emotional symptoms in an anxiety disorder?
In addition to the major symptoms of excessive and irrational panic and fear, some other common emotional symptoms of anxiety are as follows:
- Feeling dread or apprehension
- Having trouble in concentration
- Tensed feeling and jumpy sometimes
- Anticipation
- Sometimes Irritability
- Restlessness during normal day
- Always Watching or awaiting for the signs of danger
- Feeling like the mind is gone blank
What are the Physical symptoms in a panic or anxiety disorder?
Anxiety is commonly more than just a normal feeling. It is an outcome of the body’s fight or may be called the flight response, anxiety includes a wide vivid range of physical symptoms. Because of these known numerous physical symptoms, the anxiety disorders patients usually mistake another disease for this disorder. They commonly visit many physicians and doctors and often go numerous trips to the hospitals and clinics before their panic or anxiety disorder is identified. Some of the Common physical symptoms of anxiety are as follows
- Heavy Pounding heart
- Over Sweating
- Stomach upset and regular dizziness
- Frequent uncontrolled urination or diarrhea
- Shortness or lag of breath
- Common Tremors and twitches in body
- Muscle tension in several joints
- Common Headaches
- Fatigue at many times in a day.
- Insomnia and sleep disturbance
What is the Therapy for anxiety disorder?
Anxiety disorder can respond very well to some of the therapy and very often in a relatively short duration of time. The following are some types of therapy that can help with solving issues such as panic attacks and generalized anxiety phobias.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on thoughts that are aroused in mind or simply cognition with the addition to the behavior of a person. In anxiety treatment, the cognitive-behavioral therapy completely helps you to identify and challenge the negative thinking patterns of the mind and irrational beliefs that pour fuel to your anxiety.
Exposure therapy
It is recommended for anxiety disorder treatment. It encourages you to fight your fears in a completely safe and controlled environment. While being in repeated exposures to the feared moments or situation, either be in your imagination or in your reality, you always gain a greater sense of emotional control. When you face your fears without getting harmed then your anxiety gradually diminishes.
What are the Drugs used to treat Anxiety Disorders?
The Anti-Anxiety Drugs which are used to treat Anxiety disorder are,
