Anxiety is a normal human emotion. It can be of good use in helping us to keep away from dangerous circumstances and provides us the motivation to deal with problems. However, when the feelings become too intense and blown out of proportion, it can increase the symptoms that obstruct with our day-to-day activities. Anxiety disorders are the most common of all the mental disorders.
An anxiety disorder varies from normal anxiety in these ways:
- Uneven to the severity and risks of the danger
- Persists even when the danger is absent
- Gets in the way with occupational, physical or social aspects of daily life
There are many different types of anxiety disorders. Here are some of them:
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Continuous thoughts, mental images or impulses (obsession) that keep coming back even though the person try to keep them out of the mind
- Performing a routine or ritual (compulsion), such as washing hands, repeating phrases, checking for completeness or hoarding to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsession
• Panic Attack
- Repeated attacks of severe anxiety
- Episodic and attack lasts for only minutes; climax of fear
• Social Phobia
- Very worried about being negatively seen by others
- Common fears such as meeting new people, public speaking, drinking or eating in front of others
- Always try to avoid other people
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Prolonged or delayed response to a traumatic event (1 month), such as physical or sexual assault, the unexpected death of a loved one, witnessing a death or a natural disaster
- Experience nightmares and flashbacks, emotional numbing, avoidance behaviour or physiological arousal (irritability, poor focus or difficulty sleeping)
• Specific Phobia
- Unreasonable and extreme powerful fear reaction to a specific situation or object such as heights, enclosed space, furry animals or spiders
• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Too much and continuous worry that lasts 6 months or more
- Usually on issues such as career, finances, family or health
Different anxiety disorder cures work for different people and their bodies. It is vital to research all the choices, such as therapy, psychiatry sessions prescription drugs or natural remedies. Sometimes a mixture of two or three selections is the answer.
If you have a history of drug abuse in your family, it is essential to consider natural remedies, if you are usually against prescription drugs or if you are susceptible to the side effects of prescription drugs.
Afiqah Haidar is concern about the anxieties that can occur to anyone in this world be it young or old, rich or poor etc. All of the anxiety disorders should be treated by a physician who can prescribe the best medicines to relieve the disorders. Feel free to find out more about physicians in Singapore through http://psychiatrist.sg/.
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