HOW TO ELIMINATE ANXIETY DISORDER

Anxiety disorders involves panic disorder or adult panic anxiety syndrome whereby you start to experience sense of terror or panic attacks. Anxiety disorder also include having obsession of thoughts that causes anxiety. Post-traumatic stress disorders is as a result of flashback of traumatizing or terrific events. Social anxiety disorders is when one has a repetitive fear for social situations.

Generally anxiety disorders occurs as a result of too much worries that is not in equal proportion with the actual situation. Someone will develop phobia when he has excess or unfounded fear for some objects or situation.

Symptoms of anxiety disorders

Mild elevation of the person’s heart rate. This can disturb the person’s normal daily activities. This includes people who develops anxiety for closed spaces such as anxiety for elevators.

Physiological Human reaction responses- fright, fight or flight responses are relating symptoms of anxiety disorders. These reactions will help in raising alertness and be prepared to resist perilous stressors.

The body reacts when it encountered stress by producing a chemical epinephrine or adrenalin. This adrenalin will help a person to fight or flee from a danger. This involves increased heart rate and breathing which will cause the muscles to acquire more oxygen and energy to tackle the situation. Large amount of adrenalin can cause shortness of breath, chest pain and heart palpitations. These symptoms does not necessarily mean that one is having anxiety. They could be due to another cause. Seek medical attention immediately when you notice these signs.

Causes:

There are many conditions that could be possible causes of anxiety disorder, they include:

Genetic disposition.

Chemical imbalance in the brain can increase anxiety response.

Personal trait

Family problems

Traumatic experience

Stressful situations

Treatment:

The treatment of this condition depends on the person’s age and medical history. The first approach in treating anxiety disorder is to first diagnose and then treat any likely conditions like hypoxia or hyperthyroidism, these conditions worsens symptoms anxiety disorder.

Successful treatments of anxiety disorder include psychotherapy also called ‘talk therapy’.  The person is helped through such methods like communication and cognitive-behavior therapy by the psychotherapist. This helps the person in becoming aware of those situations that triggers his anxiety disorder and in dealing with them.

Psychotherapy is often done with combination of anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medicines.

There are many ways in reducing symptoms of anxiety. For example, if waiting in the bank is an issue and creates stress in your life, make out days when you should be going to bank.

Exercise is a great strategy in reducing stress and anxiety. Exercise permits the muscles to use and also work off epinephrine-which can trigger symptoms of stress. Exercises like: deep breathing exercise, yoga and tai chi helps to put one in a calm state. They also helps in eliminating anxious thoughts in the mind.

Watching movies with buddies, playing games with friends, carefree window shopping and hanging out with buddies are effective ways in reducing anxiety. What is important is to recognize what helps you in slowing down anxiety and make sure that you works towards it and also incorporating it frequently in your life.