Anxiety Disorder Diagnosis
Diagnosis is as important and crucial for any disease as therapy. You must know what you're suffering from to be able to seek and apply the right treatment.
Anxiety is a negative effect of some kind of stress. Stress is caused by an existing stress-causing factor - a stressor. Anxiety is stress that continues after that stressor is gone.
Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, nervous or even anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another.
Anxiety is a feeling of aprehension or fear and is almost always accompanied by feelings of impending doom. The source of this uneasiness is not always known or recognized, which can add to the distress you feel.
Here's an interesting test to determine if you're suffering from an anxiety disorder:
Quiz Time...
Ask yourself the following questions. Answer yes if you've been feeling this way consistently over a period of two weeks or more.
1. Do you experience shortness of breath, heart palpitation or shaking while at rest?
2. Do you have a fear of losing control or going crazy?
3. Do you avoid social situations because of fear?
4. Do you have fear of specific objects?
5. Do you fear you will be in a place or situation from which you cannot escape?
6. Do you feel afraid of leaving your home?
7. Do you have recurrent thoughts or images that refuse to go away?
8. Do you feel compelled to perform certain activities repeatedly?
9. Do you persistently re-live an upsetting event from the past?
Answering yes to more than four of these questions can indicate an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety disorder endangers your overall health as it affects not only your mental state but also your body. Cancer and other deadly diseases are related to stress and anxiety because of the changes they induce in the chemical composition of our body.
Types of Anxiety Disorder
There are many
types of anxiety disorders, including:
Generalized
anxiety disorder
- involves excessive and unrealistic worry and tension, without the
existence of a specific cause or reason. Symptoms: easy fatigue, muscle
tension, restlessness, sleep problems, irritability.
Social
anxiety disorder
- is characterized by an intense, persistent fear of being evaluated
and judged by others in social interactions. The fear of behaving in a
way that might cause embarrassment or expose the individual to ridicule
is also called social phobia. Obsessive-compulsive
disorder(OCD)
- constant fears or thoughts that induce the individual to repeatedly
perform certain routines, like for example constantly washing hands for
fear of germs. These disturbing thoughts or fears are called obsessions
and the rituals performed are called compulsions. Post-traumatic
stress disorder
(PTSD)
- this condition may occur after a traumatic or terrifying event, such
as a natural disaster, the unexpected death of a loved one, a sexual or
physical assault. It can appear a long time, sometimes a
decade,
after the initial traumatic experience. Panic
disorder
- is characterized by sudden feelings of terror that strike repeatedly
with no warning. Several physical reactions occur like sweating, chest
pain, irregular heartbeats, feeling of choking.
Specific
phobias -
consist of lasting and irrational fears of certain situations, objects
or animals. The distress associated with these phobias and the need to
avoid the situation or the object can interfere with the individual's
ability to function. There are different types of specific phobias,
based on the object or situation feared: animal phobias (fear of dogs,
snakes), natural environment phobias (fear of storms, water),
situational phobias (fear of flying, being in a closed place).
" I've
learnt to pick my battles. I ask myself, " Will this matter a
year from now? A month? A week? A day? "
Valorie Jackson
Five Tips To Help You Fight Anxiety
1. Practice exercise every day.
2. Reduce caffeine ingestion.
3. Change your eating habits, eat less per meal but more often. Improve your diet replacing junk food by organic food.
4. Limit your alcohol drinking to a minimum or eliminate it completely.
5. Turn your sleep time into a routine and stick to it.
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