Anxiety Treatment: Getting to the Root of the Problem

By Candace Martin

In these hectic and turbulent times, there are many situations that create the necessity for anxiety treatment. Fortunately, there are a large number of anxiety treatments available. Almost all of them involve a complete physical and socio-economic investigation of the person undergoing anxiety. Note that anxiety also includes stress, depression, hyperactivity, hypo activity, social withdrawal, excessive socialization and many others.

Anxiety is defined as being worried or thinking constantly about something that has happened, or what you think is likely to happen. When you worry constantly or think about what has happened or what is likely to happen, you reach a stage when you are medically diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder. There are millions of people, in each country who have this problem. You are not alone. Generally, it happens to people who are sensitive, have low self-esteem, or are shy and who get easily swayed by what others think or say about you.

Anxiety treatment is not a one size fit all approach. The physician treating the patient with the anxiety syndrome would go into the medical, social and historical background of the person. Normally, at first, anxiety treatment would try to avoid medication, by bringing to the fore what is causing the anxiety, examine why the person is feeling anxious, and show that the fear is not real.

The first step in anxiety treatment might be counseling. This could show the person with the syndrome that anxiety is faced by other people, as well, and how these other people are coping. If a person is suffering from something like anxiety about missing buses, trains, or planes, one anxiety treatment may be to ask the person to leave earlier than others, and wait at the transportation point. If a person suffers anxiety about the workplace, it often means loss of self-esteem or because the person is sensitive to comments, looks, or being ignored by other staff members. Anxiety treatment in this case would take the form of counseling the person to enhance self esteem.

Anxiety treatment is possible with drugs as well. But these drugs should be prescribed by your doctor and need to be observed as you are on them for any adverse reactions. Even the doctor would recommend you taking up other activities, prior to putting you on medication.

There are lots of other answers to anxiety treatment apart from drugs. These include physical exercise, herbal diets, and pills, also known as alternative medicine. Yoga and other natural methods for alleviating your distress are becoming more and more popular and accepted by the medical field.

Remember, anxiety is a human disease caused by our brains and our outlook on life. There are stressful situations all round, but at the same time our thinking ability can help overcome it, once we know the cause of our anxiety. Anxiety treatment is not taking drugs or pills, but working it out. Thousands of people around the globe have been helped by doctors and other medical professionals in overcoming anxiety, and you can be one of them. - 32543

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