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Anxiety Treatment Centers of California
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What is Anxiety
  • Anxiety is medically defined as the anticipation
    of future threat. Within the trials and
    tribulations of everyday life, occasional
    feelings of anxiety and stress are completely
    normal for people to experience. A healthy amount
    of anxiety can even drive a person to improve
    oneself in order to overcome future threats.
  • However, when feelings of anxiety become very
    frequent or extreme, anxiety disorders may
    develop. In contrast to regular anxiety, anxiety
    disorders are characterized as sharing features
    of excessive behavioral disturbances such as
    fear, which is an emotional response to real or
    perceived imminent threat.

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Symptoms Of Anxiety
  • Everyone become anxious at one point or another
    about specific things. Giving a presentation at
    work, fear of flying, nervousness due to a job
    interview or an upcoming competitive race are all
    common examples of everyday anxiety among most
    people. This type of healthy anxiety is transient
    and does not affect people on a daily basis. Some
    of these healthy anxiety triggers help us
    complete tasks and deadlines while others help us
    avoid danger. However, when these feelings of
    worry and restlessness become so frequent and
    severe that they begin to take over your life,
    then this turns into a pathologic disorder.
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Causes of Anxiety
  • Anxiety is often caused by the stressful
    situations of life, whether its associated with
    work, financial hardship, marital troubles or
    divorce or other daily challenges. Traumatic
    events, such as a loss of a loved one or
    witnessing an accident, can trigger intense
    anxiety. Anxiety can also be caused by a mental
    health condition, physical conditions, side
    effects from a medication, brain chemistry,
    genetics or substance abuse.
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Types Of Anxiety
  • General Anxiety
  • Social Anxiety
  • General Anxiety Disorder is characterized by
    excessive worry that occurs day after day.
    Although some stress in life is to be expected,
    people with this disorder experience anxiety more
    frequently and with a greater intensity than
    people without this disorder. Even if a victim is
    aware that their anxiety is unreasonable, they
    are unable to control it. Symptoms include an
    increased startle response, difficulty sleeping
    and headaches.
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  • Social Anxiety Disorder manifests as a fear of
    interacting with other people. Victims are often
    convinced that friends and strangers dislike them
    or judge them in a negative light even when
    reassured otherwise. Social anxiety is distinct
    from shyness in that it significantly debilitates
    a persons life. Symptoms include an intense fear
    of humiliation, avoidance of unfamiliar people
    and always expecting the worst in a social
    situation.
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Types Of Anxiety
  • Panic Disorders
  • phobias
  • Panic Disorders are marked by regular, unprovoked
    episodes of intense fear. Physical symptoms of
    panic attacks are often extreme and may resemble
    a heart attack. People who struggle with panic
    attacks often experience a fear of impending
    doom, difficulty breathing and chest pain. The
    fear of a panic attack itself is often enough to
    trigger one. Some people have only a few panic
    attacks over the course of their lives, but
    others suffer from them much more frequently.
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  • A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear. Common
    phobias include fear of spiders, blood, needles
    and clowns. Some people who experience phobias do
    not need medical attention, but others may
    require intervention, especially if the phobia
    has a significantly negative impact on their
    lives. Symptoms include uncontrollable panic when
    exposed to the source of the phobia, avoidance
    and an inability to function.
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Treatment
  • There are several different anxiety disorders
    that exist, each with its own unique
    characteristics, and most respond well to two
    types of treatment psychotherapy and medication.
    These treatments can be given alone, but are
    usually prescribed in combination. Treatment for
    anxiety can offer significant relief from
    symptoms. However, depending on the specific
    anxiety disorder, it is not always a permanent
    cure and may require monitoring for a period of
    time.
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