Are you Suffering from Anxiety?

Posted by Dr Vaibhav Dubey on September 9th, 2019

One of the famous quotes of Dean Smith (the legendary basketball coach) said that if you treat each and every situation as a life and death matter, then you will die a lot many times. Nothing else other than this quote can describe so well about the anxiety. Each one of us experiences anxiety at some or the point of our life. But the treatment of anxiety is only important when this anxiety starts to interrupt our day to day lives. Now the question that arises is that is anxiety really a type of fear? Not really. The major difference between the fear and anxiety is that we know what type of fear is in us but we do not know what we are anxious about.

When a person is anxious, he or she usually demonstrate this feeling as feeling empty or as feeling butterflies in stomach. In fact, a person with anxiety has a lot more experiences like:

•          Fatigue
•          Feeling of pins and needles
•          Shortness of breath
•          Light headedness
•          Trouble while walking due to imbalance
•          Cold fingers and toes
•          Nausea
•          Clumsiness

People with anxiety feel such uncomfortable sensations and the symptoms of anxiety become worse as the time passes by if these are neglected. If ignored, people have to suffer from nightmares and hallucinations and also become insomniacs. People also have to face panic attacks on a regular basis and they are left with only one solution, that is, anxiety treatment in Bhopal.

The below is the list of different types of anxiety disorders that are most commonly found in people:

•          Panic Disorder
•          Social anxiety disorder
•          Obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD
•          Specific phobias
•          Posttraumatic stress disorder
•          General anxiety disorder

 Is medication really helpful in curing anxiety?

Psychiatrist suggests medications at the first place as it helps in reducing the symptoms of anxiety. But as the reason why anxiety occurs is the stress, therefore, medications can’t alone cure the anxiety. Anxiety treatment in Bhopal includes the combination of CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the medications so that the sufferer can get rid of stress from the root. Also, CBT is considered as an effective treatment for anxiety. As mentioned earlier, medications with the help of CBT can help in reducing the symptoms of anxiety. The reason for this that it reduces negative emotions as it acts as anti-depressant.