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Anxiety TreatmentsOver 20 million American adults seek out anxiety treatments. Typically, they experience overwhelming, excessive, irrational fear and dread.  Mild anxiety caused by stress is normal.  Anxiety disorders are chronic, and often get worse if  untreated.  Luckily, there are many anxiety treatments are highly effective.  While there are different types of anxiety disorders, most respond well to anxiety treatments, both conventional and alternative.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD is a common anxiety problem, affecting around 3-4% of the population. Excessive worrying, and inability to shut the mind off can be tormenting. Or the mind shuts down because the anxious feelings are so dominant. Feelings of worry, dread, lack of energy, and a loss of interest in life are common, and indications to seek anxiety treatments. Even when the person realizes these feelings are not rational, the feelings are still there, and overwhelming.  The person with generalized anxiety fears imagines the worst, all the time.


Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD is associated with irregular levels of neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals that carry signals across nerve endings. Neurotransmitters that seem to involve anxiety include norepinephrine, GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), and serotonin.  Many medications that are used in anxiety treatments
increase serotonin brain levels. Medications like Prozac, Zoloft ,Paxil and Effexor are used for this reason in anxiety treatments.

Research has shown a 20% genetic risk for GAD in relatives of sufferers and a 10% risk among relatives of people with depression. Often anxiety treatments are needed for multiple family members.  

Physical symptoms of generalized anxiety may include severe muscle tension, headaches, trembling, twitching, irritability, frustration, and inability to concentrate,  chest and abdominal pain,or pressure, heart palpitations or irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath. Regular life stresses aggravate generalized anxiety. Strategies to learn how to calm down and relax are often taught in anxiety treatments.

In addition to taking medication, alternative therapy, including herbs, acupuncture, hypnosis, counseling, meditation, nutrition, and anxiety support groups all have been found to be helpful as anxiety treatments.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is an anxiety treatment with a high degree of success. It's a new, more active anxiety treatment that is more than just talking to a therapist. In CBT, the person is trained to see situations and problems in a different perspective and learns methods and techniques that reduce anxiety. Sometimes medication is needed with the therapy, but for many people may not be necessary.

Research indicates that Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD is fully treatable and can be successfully overcome over the course of about three to four months if the person is motivated and works with a therapist, or trained councelor.
Anxiety treatments have been shown to be both effective and successful.  
Regardless of which of the many  anxiety treatments is chosen, seeking help is often the hardest part. After that it gets easier, and easier.
 
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