Anxiety Disorder Generalized

Definition

Anxiety disease is a feeling of apprehension and it can be feeling of impending doom, or uneasiness. Anxiety is a reaction to an internal threat such as an unacceptable impulse. A rational response to a real threat occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. Overwhelming anxiety may result in generalized anxiety disorder - uncontrollable, unreasonable worry that persists for at least 6 months and narrows perceptions or interferes with normal functioning. It indicates that the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder is greater than previously thought and may be even greater than that of depression.

Causes of anxiety disorder

• Theorists
• Conflict
• Social personal

Symptoms of anxiety disorder

• Trembling
• Muscle aches and spasms
• Headaches
• Shortness of breath
• Tachycardia
• Sweating

Psychological or physiologic symptoms of anxiety states vary with the degree of anxiety. Mild anxiety mostly causes psychological symptoms, with unusual self-awareness and alertness to the environment. If you have moderate anxiety, then it may leads to selective inattention. Severe anxiety may also causes an inability to concentrate. If you are in panic state with acute anxiety, then it may causes a complete loss of concentration, commonly with unintelligible speech.

Treatment of anxiety disorder

• You should be use combination of drug therapy and psychotherapy, because it may help a patient with generalized anxiety disorder. Benzodiazepines, such as clonazepam and alprazolam, it may be use to treats mild anxiety and also improve the patient's ability to cope.
• You can also use antidepressants such as venlafaxine, it may relieve the patient of severe anxiety and panic attacks.
• Psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder has two goals such as it helping the patient identify and deal with the cause of the anxiety, and it eliminating environmental factors that precipitate an anxious reaction.
• Antihistamines and sedatives medication may also be prescribed. which may pose less risk of physical and psychological dependence than benzodiazepines.