Kinds, types of anxiety disorders, causes and symptoms, ways and methods of treatment, my experience
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What is social phobia?
Jul 10th
Social phobia (social anxiety disorder) is a fear of too much experience humiliation or embarrassment in front of other people, which causes the patient to avoid situations such as public speaking, the need to write anything in the presence of people, eating in restaurants, using public toilets.
If fear of any one type of situations usually involve a moderate life constraints, then multiple fears often lead to agoraphobia and severe limitations.
Patients with social phobias have fear from the implementation of any action in society, volitional component is violated, a person lacks self-control in any situation. Self-control is the important trait that helps a person to manage oneself, one’s own behavior, retain the ability to perform activities in the most adverse conditions. A man with a strong self-control can in any, even the emergency situations and circumstances to subordinate emotions and do not let them break the organized structure of his mental life. The main content of this property is the work of two psychological mechanisms: self-monitoring and correction. More >
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Jul 10th
Last time there is heightened interest in medical somatic specialties to mental disorders. Among them special place is occupied by generalized anxiety disorder. The main manifestation is a chronic anxiety.
Anxiety – is an emotional experience, in which a person feels uncomfortable with the uncertainty of prospects. Evolutionary importance of anxiety is to mobilize the body in extreme situations. Some level of anxiety is necessary for normal life and productive person. Normal anxiety helps to adapt to different situations, it grows in conditions of high subjective importance of choice, external threat, the lack of information and time. More >
What is panic disorder and panic attacks?
Jul 10th
Panic disorder is common – it is a disease of many thousands of people. Manifestations of anxiety disorders are diverse, distinguished in different forms of these disorders.Panic disorder is one of the most frequent and severe anxiety disorders. It brings suffering of patients and their families.
The main feature of panic disorder is recurring panic attacks, ie, sudden onset of fear and discomfort associated with symptoms such as shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, dyspnea, chest pain, tremors, sweating and fear to die or go mad.
Typically, these attacks usually last from 5 to 20 minutes. Patients often mistakenly believe that they have a heart attack.
Having lived through several such attacks, many are beginning to feel in awe of the following, which can happen in a place where they will not be able to get or where can not get help – in a tunnel in the middle of the row in the cinema, on the bridge or in a crowded elevator. They begin to avoid all these situations, and walk around these places at a great distance, sometimes limiting their residence, home or refusing to leave without an escort who trust. More >
What is anxiety disorders?
Jul 9th
Anxiety disorders – the group of mental disorders characterized by various combinations of characteristics such as extreme anxiety and fear, muscle tension, and physiological disorders, and suspicion towards others.
Muscle tension is expressed in the tremor, restlessness, muscle clamps, and fatigue. Physiological disorders, including heart palpitations, shortness of breath, feeling of squeezing in the chest or throat, humidity palms and dizziness. A suspicious attitude to the environment manifests itself in nervousness, irritability, difficulty falling asleep, inability to concentrate. Such states are observed in healthy people, ie they do not always indicate mental illness.
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