How to treat anxiety and depression

Anxiety disorders and depression belong to different disease series: First, anxiety disorders belong to a type of neurological disorder, and the methods chosen in clinical treatment include psychotherapy, medication and physical therapy: 1. Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy mainly focuses on improving patients’ irrational and distorted cognition, such as cognitive reconstruction for anxiety disorder patients’ over-assessment of future worries and underestimation of aspects of their own processing ability. 2. Medication. Pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders is mainly through the application of anxiolytics and antidepressants systematically and regularly, such as the application of anxiolytics to benzodiazepines, such as lorazepam, alprazolam, eszopiclone, etc.; the application of antidepressants to 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors, such as paroxetine, fluoxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and other drugs.3. Physiotherapy. Physiotherapy for anxiety disorders in the clinic, such as EEG biofeedback therapy, relaxation training, etc. Second, the treatment of depression in the clinic also uses three ways to treat: 1, drug therapy; 2, psychotherapy; 3, physical therapy. 1, drug therapy. The main clinical choice is 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors, such as paroxetine, sertraline, fluoxetine, escitalopram, venlafaxine and other drugs. The treatment should be adequate and regular. 2. Psychotherapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is mainly used to improve the patient’s irrational cognitive patterns, cognitive reconstruction of self-denial, feelings of uselessness, incompetence and despair, etc. 3. Physical therapy. In clinical practice, the preferred physiotherapy for depression is transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy, or for refractory depression, twitch-free electroconvulsive therapy. Therefore, for anxiety and depression in the clinical treatment mainly choose the above methods.