Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and a very useful one. It helps us deal with a tense situation in the office, helps us study harder for an exam or keep focused on an important speech. In general, it helps us cope. However, when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder.
In any given year about 18% of the population suffer from an anxiety disorder, filling them with fear and dread. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety associated with giving a presentation or writing an exam, anxiety disorders can last many months or sometimes years.
There are five major types of anxiety disorders
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social Phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is one of the five major types of anxiety and one that has been receiving a lot of attention over the last decade. It develops after an ordeal that involves physical harm or the threat of physical harm. The person who develops PTSD may be the one who was harmed or be a witness of a harmful event to a loved one or even a stranger. It can result from a variety of incidents, such as a motor vehicle accident, mugging, child sexual abuse or a natural catastrophe, such as an earthquake.
Some of the symptoms of PTSD include:
- Emotional numbness.
- Loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities.
- Irritable, possibly aggressive or violent.
- Avoidance of situations similar to the original incident.
- Flashbacks or re-experiencing of the traumatic incident.
- Intrusive recollections of the incident.
Oftentimes the disorder is accompanied by depression, substance abuse or one of the anxiety disorders.
Dr. de Jong can help you with effective treatment for anxiety as well as take-home devices to help speed you through treatment, e.g., with the alpha stim.
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