What is Anxiety? How to cure it - Clinical-psychology - Mind Scape Today
Anxiety and how to cure it
Anxiety is the uneasiness of the mind because of possible impending trouble or danger. Most people experience feelings of anxiety before an important event such as a big exam, business presentation, or first date. Anxiety disorders, however, are illnesses that fill people’s lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear that are chronic, unremitting, and can grow progressively worse. Tormented by panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, flashbacks of traumatic events, nightmares, or countless frightening physical symptoms, some people with anxiety disorders even become housebound. Fortunately, through research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), there are effective treatments that can help.
Anxiety is a problem that ranges from mild uneasiness to distressing physical, mental, and emotional sensations. The symptoms can include; tension, tightness of neck and shoulders, digestive problems, breathlessness, palpations or rapid heart rate, dry mouth, hot flushes, poor memory, or lack of concentration.
There are homeopathic remedies to treat anticipatory anxiety before a stressful event, such as public speaking or a dental appointment.
If the anxiety is relation related to a recent stressful event in your life, or if the anxiety is severe or long-term in nature, it is best to seek help from a homeopathic practitioner who can choose the most appropriate treatment for your particular symptoms.
Homeopathy can treat anxiety without the side effects associated with conventional drug treatments.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders, as a group, has evolved to become one of the most common mental illness in the world today. These debilitating illnesses each year affect millions of people. Children and adolescents can also develop anxiety disorders.
What are the different kinds of anxiety disorders?
• Panic disorder
Repeated episodes of intense fear strike often and without warning. Physical symptoms include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, abdominal distress, feelings of unreality, and fear of dying.
• Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Repeated, unwanted thoughts or compulsive behaviors that seem impossible to stop or control.
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Persistent symptoms occur after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event such as rape or other criminal assault, war, child abuse, natural or human-caused disasters, or crashes.
Nightmares, flashbacks, numbing of emotions, depression and feeling angry, irritable or distracted, and being easily startled are common. Family members of victims can also develop this disorder.
• Phobias
Two major types of phobias are social phobia and specific phobia. People with social phobia have an overwhelming and disabling fear of scrutiny, embarrassment, or humiliation in social situations, which leads to the avoidance of many potentially pleasurable and meaningful activities.
People with specific phobia experience extreme, disabling, and irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger; the fear leads to avoidance of objects or situations and can cause people to limit their lives unnecessarily.
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Constant, exaggerated worrisome thoughts and tension about everyday routine life events and activities, lasting at least six months. Almost always anticipating the worst even ideas there is little reason to expect it; accompanied by physical symptoms, such as fatigue, trembling, muscle tension, headache, or nausea.
