an introduction
A person usually feels a lot of feeling in moments, either happiness, sadness, or fatigue, and of course he feels a lot of psychological disorders affecting him from external influences such as anxiety, insomnia and suffocation, so we will devote in the article talk about a psychological disorder affecting the human form Excessive, negative, although sometimes useful on the basis of its severity, the disease is an anxiety.
What is Anxiety Disorder
It is a natural reaction to any problem we face in life in general. It can be a simple reaction and it is called temporary anxiety and comes in sporadic situations. It can be overly concerned and this type causes fear on the human condition in the case of anxiety in close situations.
What types of anxiety disorder disorders
There are several types of anxiety disorders, including:
- Adaptive Disorder: A person’s lack of adaptation to the circumstances surrounding him, such as lack of adaptation to family or friends, or subsequent failure to adapt to failed relationships, and other emotional crises, and symptoms of nervousness and nervousness.
- Generalized or generalized anxiety disorder: This is the most common condition among the population, spread by 5%, and the incidence of male and female close and similar, and diagnoses the state of general anxiety through the lack of control of the sense and constant preoccupation with many things, increasing the fear and anticipation, fear and lack of sleep .
- Panic disorder: This disorder affects women more than men, so that it is common and common by up to 3 to 4%, and one third of the panic cases based on the fear of open spaces and crowds, and spread to women three to one.
Symptoms of Panic:
- Pulse speed or heart rate.
- The abundance of sweat suddenly.
- Shortness of breath and feeling of suffocation.
- Feeling pain in the chest and abdomen.
- Feeling numbness and numbness.
What is the incidence of this disease in societies
Anxiety is the most common mental illness. It affects one in nine people. Fortunately for anxiety patients, their illness is highly treatable and responds to treatment. The majority of anxiety patients feel very comfortable after treatment, but there are patients who do not seek treatment and attention. Because they do not consider the symptoms accompanying them to be satisfactory, or they feel afraid of their friends, family members or even the work of knowing the existence of their anxiety disorder.
What are the symptoms of anxiety disease
It is difficult for a person to exercise his normal life, in the context of excessive anxiety. The rate of anxiety differs from one case to another depending on the person and his / her psychology.
- A person’s feeling of constant headaches.
- A person’s sense of intolerance and tension.
- Feeling a person not focus.
- Feeling tired and confused.
- Feeling irritable and impatient.
- Feeling chronic insomnia.
- Feeling suffocating breath and sweating profusely.
- Feeling acute abdominal pains and frequent diarrhea.
What are the causes of the risk of anxiety disease
Factors and causes that increase the risk of generalized anxiety disorder, and may be the problem of biological or psychological or genetic factors of the person, and we offer as follows:
- The severity of childhood: Some believe that the disease of anxiety associated with them, it is only suffering from childhood cruel, and the difficulties that faced them at that stage, especially those who witnessed the events of dramatic and shocking in his life, they are most vulnerable to the disease generalized.
- Diseases Many people with serious illnesses feel chronic about the reality of their lives and the extent to which they are able to treat them, including the economic situation and others, and the general fear of the future of the impact of the disease in which it is a serious burden, such as cancer and heart diseases,
- Stress: Some cases are stressed by the stressful conditions in life, which causes a feeling of anxiety. This feeling builds up psychological tension. For example, when a person is absent from work due to a disease, he or she is affected by tension and anxiety, Loss of family income from work, and the situation may grow into a generalized concern.
- Personality: The personality of the human being is one of the factors of concern, especially those with certain personal characteristics. They are exposed to generalized anxiety. Some emotional attachment also affects the person’s psyche and anxiety, as well as marginal personality disorders that are classified as generalized anxiety.
- Genetic factors: Some studies indicate that there is a major source of genetics, in the transmission of generalized anxiety disease, from generation to generation.
What are the complications of anxiety disease
Anxiety may cause an increase or aggravation of other diseases, including:
- Feeling depressed and insomnia.
- Addiction to medical tablets.
- Gastrointestinal and digestive disorders.
- Feeling chronic headache.
- Feeling of tooth decay, especially during sleep.
How to diagnose anxiety disease
Mental health professionals perform psychological assessment procedures for people who have anxiety disorder. In this case, the person being diagnosed is asked questions about their anxiety, how comfortable they feel, and the fears they face.
In order to be diagnosed, mental health professionals conduct a special questionnaire for patients with anxiety. Diagnosis is performed under several criteria, which must be adapted to the condition. The criteria are:
- The patient’s feeling of fear and constant anxiety, not less than this feeling about six months a day.
- The patient’s inability to face his anxiety, and resistance.
- The patient’s feeling of tension, intolerance and difficulty concentrating, based on a sudden bout of anxiety.
- The patient’s feeling of sleep disturbance, which affects the muscle tension and constriction.
- The severe sense of distress that hinders daily life, after a bout of anxiety.
- The feeling of anxiety is far from the pathological or related to generalized anxiety, such as the use of addicted substances, or panic attacks.
What is the treatment of anxiety disease
Anxiety disorder takes treatment period of trial, and this to determine the appropriate treatment for the patient, and how comfortable and comfortable in the treatment, treatment and two types:
- Treatment of drug anxiety: In order to reduce the side effects associated with generalized anxiety disorder, there are types of drug therapy, including:
- Antidepressants: Benzodiazepines, a calming agent that relieves anxiety for an hour and a half, may unfortunately make you addicted if you have been taking it for several weeks.
- Antidepressants: These drugs affect the action of neurotransmitter, which is the development of anxiety disorder and its development, and is one of the common drugs for the treatment of generalized anxiety (fluoxetine) and Prozac (Prozac).
- Treatment of psychological anxiety: Psychotherapy is based on psychology and practitioners in this area, to support and support and help the patient, through the process of talking and listening, and relieve the patient’s concern.
At the end of the article, we recommend that anyone who feels suffering and psychological pain, accompanied by physical symptoms, not to leave himself without attention and care, and go to any doctor you trust and begin treatment, to relieve the illusions that dominate your inner mind, and graduated in general anxiety. , To be concerned with the authorities responsible for the study of this disease, and highlight it, and work to find ways to protect the person from the disease, and better treatment of the infected, for the benefit of mental health in general, and patients in particular.