Anxiety Disorder Facts
Your daily life may be causing you anxiety, or maybe a specific event causes you to feel anxious. Not everyone has the same type of anxiety disorder, Panic and anxiety are often considered the same thing unless you are the one suffering.
If you are suffering from shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness and have a ongoing fear of death and levels of distress that are higher than your friends or associates then there is a good chance you are having a anxiety attack. The best known anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder, it used to be solely associated with soldiers who have returned home from war, that is changing over time.
If you are washing your hands constantly even though you know they are clean, or doing some other repetitive behavior that you are unable to stop then you may well be suffering from a obsessive compulsive disorder.
Phobias are another type of anxiety. There are two types of phobias, social phobia and specific phobia. People who have social phobia have fear of embarrassment, humiliation, scrutiny, causing them to avoid social situations and miss out on other important activities in their life.
You probably don’t even take any notice of most things in your daily routine, if you suffered from a generalized anxiety disorder every change in your routine would upset you. You would worry about every step of your day and that anxiety would show itself as fatigue, tension, nausea and probably headaches as well.
Anxiety disorders have traditionally been treated with a mixture of drugs and psychotherapy. People often have years of treatment and some people never recover enough to enjoy a full life.
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.
Understanding your thinking and why you act in certain ways will help you change the way you think and act in certain situations. That is exactly what behavioral therapy does for you.
Understanding anxiety is something every person who has anxiety strives for. Most anxiety sufferers feel no one understands, anxiety can make your life miserable, but it can be beaten.
