| Our society today can often be very | | | | decrease a person?s anxiety. Under the |
| overwhelming and it is important to make your | | | | supervision of your therapist a medication |
| anxiety is in check as well as any other | | | | may be prescribed that can help elevate |
| issues that you may have going on at the | | | | anxiety temporarily. Some of the medications |
| time. Anxiety is felt by everyone at some | | | | include: SSRI?s like Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac, |
| time in their life, like when giving a speech | | | | Zoloft, Celexa, or Luvox, MOAIs like Parnate |
| or going on a job interview. For people with | | | | or Nordil, and TCAs like Tofranil, Adapin, |
| severe anxiety, it is much worse and is felt | | | | Vivactil, Anafranil, Surmotil, Elavil, |
| on a constant basis. People with anxiety | | | | Sinequan, Endep, Norpramin or Ludiomil. If |
| issues often experience some or all of the | | | | you do choose to use medication to treat your |
| following symptoms: extreme fear, abnormal | | | | anxiety, it is best to do so under the strict |
| phobias, heart palpitations, panic attacks, | | | | supervision of your physician because many of |
| shyness and obsessive behaviors. Therapy, | | | | these medications have side effects and all |
| medication, and relaxation exercises can all | | | | have to be prescribed. |
| provide relief of anxiety symptoms and when | | | | |
| used together the results are even better. | | | | Relaxation exercises can also help to elevate |
| | | | anxiety. Panic attacks caused by heightened |
| Therapy is usually the first step used in | | | | anxiety can be calmed by deep breathing |
| relieving anxiety issues. A therapist can | | | | exercises. Mediation has been known to |
| help you to discover the underlying causes of | | | | relieve anxiety symptoms before a situation |
| your anxiety and can suggest the best ways to | | | | that might trigger it, by having a relaxing |
| help you get through it. Some techniques that | | | | effect on the person. Yoga and other exercise |
| are used to help relieve a person?s anxiety | | | | programs have also been shown to relieve |
| often include cognitive or behavioral | | | | anxiety somewhat. Since the endorphins |
| therapy. Cognitive therapy is when you are | | | | released during the exercise can have a |
| taught to use different ways of thinking when | | | | calming effect on the person, anxiety is |
| you are in a situation that may cause | | | | often reduced. |
| anxiety. By reprogramming your thought | | | | |
| processes you can decrease your anxiety at | | | | Many people suffer every day from anxiety |
| the time, by telling yourself more positive | | | | problems or panic attacks that can stop them |
| things when anxiety is felt. Behavioral | | | | from leading a normal life. If you feel that |
| therapy is when you are constantly confronted | | | | you have a problem with anxiety or panic |
| with the anxiety filled situation until your | | | | attacks therapy, medication, or relaxation |
| start to feel more comfortable. Taken in baby | | | | exercises can prove to be very effective in |
| steps the therapist will talk you through the | | | | treating your problem. The symptoms of |
| process as they slowly get you to come to | | | | anxiety can constantly rule a person?s life |
| terms with the situations that cause you | | | | and if they become serious it is very |
| anxiety, and it goes away. | | | | important to seek out professional help for |
| | | | your mental health. |
| Medications are also very commonly used to | | | | |