Your daily life may be causing you anxiety, or maybe a specific event causes you to feel anxious. Not everyone has the same type of anxiety disorder, Panic and anxiety are often considered the same thing unless you are the one suffering.
If you are suffering from shortness of breath, chest pains, dizziness and have a ongoing fear of death and levels of distress that are higher than your friends or associates then there is a good chance you are having a anxiety attack. The best known anxiety disorder is post traumatic stress disorder, it used to be solely associated with soldiers who have returned home from war, that is changing over time.
Do you flush your toilet 10 times in a row? Or maybe you have to get up every hour to check that your windows and doors are still locked? If you recognize either of these behaviors or maybe you do something similar then there is a good chance that you suffer from Obsessive compulsive disorder.
Phobias are another type of anxiety. There are two types of phobias, social phobia and specific phobia. People who have social phobia have fear of embarrassment, humiliation, scrutiny, causing them to avoid social situations and miss out on other important activities in their life.
Specific phobia is where you experience a fear of things that pose no danger to you. This will cause a person to avoid certain objects and situations. This can limit peoples lives in many ways. Another type of anxiety disorder is generalized anxiety disorder. This is when you have constant thoughts of worry and tension about you daily routines, life events and other activities. Even though there is no reason to expect it, you almost will always think the worst. The physical symptoms are fatigue, tension, nausea, headache, and trembling.
Anxiety disorders have traditionally been treated with a mixture of drugs and psychotherapy. People often have years of treatment and some people never recover enough to enjoy a full life.
As anxiety disorder become better understood and more widely reported the medical industry has started to come up with newer and hopefully more effective medications for people who suffer from both specific and social anxiety.
While there are some very effective ways of treating anxiety with psychotherapy, including behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, there are also a wide variety of new medications coming onto the market. Talk to your Dr about therapy first as it may have less side effects than any medications.
Understanding your thinking and why you act in certain ways will help you change the way you think and act in certain situations. That is exactly what behavioral therapy does for you.
Understanding anxiety is a goal every person who has anxiety hopes for. Most anxiety sufferers feel no one understands, At last a life is the true life story of someone just like you and how he recovered from anxiety
