Stress, anxiety, and depression have become common terms to hear. These are somehow interrelated and one often leads to another. All these conditions have a profound impact on your mental health and overall wellbeing. Therefore, it is crucial to address these conditions on time before they start taking a major toll on your health and life.
Anxiety disorder
While anxiety is a normal human reaction to difficult situations, it may take a serious turn in people with anxiety disorder. In such people, these reactions are not short-term, but prevail and get worse over time.
This disorder can severely impact a person’s ability to work, and can impact the behavior they exhibit in their social circle. Ultimately, it can impact their relationships with family, friends and colleagues. Therefore, it is essential to identify and treat anxiety disorder on time.
Fortunately, there’s professional help available. Psychologists and psychiatrists offer help through behavioral treatment or medication or a combination of both to relieve symptoms.
Further elaboration of anxiety issues
General anxiety
It may be a persistent worry or anxious feelings. Individuals suffering from this conditions worry about a number of problems, such as finances, health, or feel like something bad is going to happen. Restlessness, muscle tightness, sleep disorders, difficulty concentrating, etc. and further symptoms.
Phobias
Call it an intensive fear about something – an object or animal or a situation – it can be distressing.
Panic
Panic attacks include conditions like sweating, trembling, a feeling of choking, shortness of breath, and a feeling of dread. These attacks happen without warning, and the sufferer develops an intense fear about this condition worrying about the next episode. Eventually, they end up restricting their normal activities.
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Persistent, uncontrolled feelings or thoughts (obsessions) and routines or rituals (compulsion) are general characteristics of this disorder.
Social anxiety
It is a condition when a person starts feeling anxious about a potential social situation in which they might be judged or feel embarrassed. Common characteristics include working for days before a social event, feeling shaky and sweaty in social settings.
Experts suggest that most of the anxiety disorders are caused by underlying reasons. Psychologists are trained professionals who can help diagnose anxiety disorders and offer a well-planned treatment for relief. They help identify and manage problems that actually fuel anxiety.
It is recommended to visit a psychologist on time to reduce undesired behaviors associated with anxiety and add quality of life again.
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