Anxiety Treatment Isn't a One Size Fits All Approach

By Candace Martin

There are too many factors today in life which trigger anxiety: lifestyles, conflicting views, new environments, frustration on various things - personal, social, workplace, trauma, accidents - the list is endless. For many people these questions and thoughts alone are overwhelming. Anxiety treatment becomes a necessity when their fears (which are essentially anxiety) overtake their ability to handle them.

Anxiety disorders are classified into different categories; some more common than others. Depending upon your profile your physician will draw up a diagnosis. He may put you into one of the categories of depression, bipolar disorder, neurosis, acute distress syndrome, etc. These are high sounding terms and you should not get worried or concerned. This is merely to help the physician choose the right treatment for you. Many times the terms attributed to these disorders can frightened the patient, but don't be alarmed.

You can be helped only when you are totally honest and truthful with your physician. Most often, we all forget that the doctor can help us only when we make an honest assessment of what is happening to us. If we omit even a single detail, the doctor can only make out from the physical presentation and your statement. The doctor is a professional and his word should be trusted. The doctor will have plenty of advice and techniques to help assist you with getting your life back on track.

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 could be that the physician can prescribe as small dose of a sedative in combination with some other drug to reduce the anxiety symptoms and give some relief to the suffering person. However, this should always be done in conjunction with other forms of treatment that involve behavioral changes.

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. - 32530

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