Anxiety
Anxiety is a very common human emotion which comes from an experience that one is in a dangerous situation. In this sense anxiety has evolutionary value as it is an important emotion that alerts to danger and threat in the environment. When individuals suffer from anxiety their experience of fear becomes over generalised as they begin to experience that in reality. Anxiety counseling is one of the best and universal way to treat people suffering from. If you suffer from an anxiety disorder you might find yourself unable to stop worrying and being in a state of heightened stress most of the time. This can become an all consuming experience taking over your life.
Types of Anxiety
1.Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)- If you suffer from GAD you are likely to feel anxious about most things and in most situations rather than have a specific focus for your worries. This could have an effect on your concentration, sleep and appetite and is likely to be an obstacle to being able to live your life as you would like.
2.Panic disorder – If you suffer from panic disorder you might find yourself experiencing intense panic and this could be in relation to specific situations or more generalised. Over time people who suffer from panic attacks become anxious about experiencing another panic attack so the focus of anxiety becomes the anticipation of anxiety.
Panic disorder often involves physical symptoms of anxiety such as:
Other forms of anxiety are:
- Palpitations
- Dizziness
- Sweating
- Health Anxiety
- Phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Treatment for Anxiety
In the short term anxiety can be regulated through medication.If you require pharmacological treatment for your anxiety, the next step will be an assessment for a psychiatric review. In the long term the most effective treatments for anxiety are psychological and the approaches with the best evidence are acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). The emphasis on these treatments is on the individual’s thinking and how this influences their experiences of anxiety, behaviours that might maintain anxiety and the acquisition of new skills including mindfulness.
