Anxiety is a feeling of worry or tension accompanied by physical changes like increased heart rate, sweating, and restlessness. It’s a common response to stress.
The exact cause of anxiety is uncertain, but factors like genetics, brain chemistry, stress, and environment likely contribute.
Let’s talk about treatment options for anxiety disorders in Lucknow.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): GAD is an anxiety disorder marked by constant, uncontrollable, and sometimes irrational worry about various events or activities. This excessive worrying can disrupt daily life and cause intense concern about health, finances, death, family, relationships, or work issues. Symptoms may include persistent worry, restlessness, difficulty sleeping, fatigue, irritability, sweating, and trembling.
Panic disorder:It is an anxiety disorder where individuals experience repeated and unexpected panic attacks. These attacks involve sudden and intense fear, often accompanied by symptoms like heart palpitations, sweating, shaking, difficulty breathing, numbness, or a sense of impending doom. Symptoms typically peak within minutes during a panic attack.
Phobia:It is an anxiety disorder where someone has an intense and irrational fear of a specific situation, living thing, place, or object.
To manage anxiety disorders, strategies include understanding anxiety, practicing mindfulness, using relaxation techniques, adopting proper breathing methods, making dietary adjustments, engaging in exercise, learning assertiveness, building self-esteem, trying cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, structured problem-solving, and considering medication. The team of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists at Trident Hospital are skilled in treating anxiety disorders.