Facts About Anxiety Disorders

Not everyone gets anxious about the same thing, a problem at work for example is something that many people could just brush off but for others it will sit in their mind and cause so much anxiety that they may never be able to go back to work again.

Some of the symptoms are shortness of breath, dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations, fear of dying and abdominal distress. Another type of anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder. This disorder will give you symptoms that occur after a traumatic event like natural disasters, crashes, assault, child abuse, war, emotions, nightmares depression, anger, and flashbacks to mention a few.

Do you flush your toilet 10 times in a row? Or maybe you have to get up every hour to check that your windows and doors are still locked? If you recognize either of these behaviors or maybe you do something similar then there is a good chance that you suffer from Obsessive compulsive disorder.

Phobias and anxiety often come hand in hand, you could be suffering from either a social phobia or a specific phobia. Social phobia is harder to deal with, when you have specific phobia you are phobic of one thing , spiders for example, so you avoid them. Social phobia can cause you to avoid every social situation.

A vast number of people suffer with generalized anxiety disorder, constant worrying about their daily routine and events that are happening to them. These events will often seem of no consequence to others but they will cause huge anxiety to the sufferer. This anxiety can display as fatigue, tension and even constant headaches and nausea.

People with anxiety will often wait months before going to see their Dr and when they do see a Dr the first step is often medication. A mixture of therapy and medication will usually be offered as a solution by your Dr.

As anxiety disorder become better understood and more widely reported the medical industry has started to come up with newer and hopefully more effective medications for people who suffer from both specific and social anxiety.

When we talk about using therapy to treat anxiety we normally mean either behavioral therapy or cognitive behavior therapy, they focus on changing your actions and will try and stop the behaviors that are unwanted from happening.

If you act certain ways in a specific situation and that causes you anxiety then you need to change the way you act. That is the basic theory behind the use of cognitive behavioral therapy.