Anxiety Treatment Centers California

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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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