Anxiety disorders (Anxiety disorders) are a common neurological disorder in which anxiety is the predominant emotion. At least one third of patients with mental disorders have some form of anxiety disorder, and as social competition becomes more intense and stress factors in life increase, anxiety reactions such as psychological maladjustment are bound to increase and should be taken seriously.
Main Triggers
The main causative factors of anxiety disorders are personality-based plus psychosocial factors: Dai Jian, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People’s Hospital Psychiatric (Psychological) Clinical Rehabilitation Center
1, anxiety may occur when experiencing a high level of stress for a long time, such as important decisions to be made, things to be dealt with to the deadline, the work life routine will be significantly changed, etc., when people need to make adjustments for this, when this adjustment exceeds the normal adaptive capacity, or the intensity of the stress exceeds the tolerable limit, it can lead to symptoms of anxiety.
2, most people with anxiety disorders are more sensitive, emotional, easy to worry, pessimistic, to sentimental, curmudgeonly, conservative, withdrawn and other emotionally unstable or introverted people are more common.
Normal anxiety
Anxiety is an emotional reaction that occurs when people face potential or real danger or threat. The vast majority of understandable, moderate anxiety caused by certain reasons is normal anxiety. People who lose their anxiety response are abnormal.
Anxiety symptoms
As with many physiological and psychological reactions, it is abnormal if the reaction is excessive. Pathological anxiety is an inappropriate expression of anxiety, meaning that there is no clear anxiogenic factor, or that the factor and response are asymmetrical, severe or persistent anxiety reactions. The latter can be reflected in their feelings, behaviors or functional states, and they themselves, their relatives or those around them, can perceive such reactions/states as unusual.
Classification
1. Panic disorder, a neurological disorder in which recurrent panic attacks are the main primary symptom. Such attacks are not limited to any particular context and are unpredictable. Panic attacks as secondary symptoms can be seen in many different mental disorders, such as phobic neurosis, depression, etc., and should be differentiated from certain physical disorders, such as epilepsy, heart attack, endocrine disorders, etc.
2, generalized anxiety disorder, refers to a lack of clear objects and specific content of the anxiety disorder, and nervous anxiety mainly, the patient is anxious all day long, worry about their work, health; worry about the safety of relatives, fear of unpredictable, and often accompanied by physical discomfort, such as dizziness, sweating, palpitations, chest pain, the whole body has a pins and needles feeling, vomiting, etc.. Patients feel pain because they can’t stand it and can’t get rid of it. Chen Youzhen experts said the above two types of patients often go to internal medicine or the emergency room, often mistaken for coronary heart attacks, respiratory disorders or other episodic diseases, repeatedly examined, wasting energy, material resources and time in vain. Such symptoms, however, can be treated once they are clearly diagnosed by a psychiatrist, so patients with these symptoms should go to a psychiatric outpatient clinic for treatment.
Accompanying symptoms.
1. Psychological symptoms.
Worry, nervousness, anxiety, irritability, fear, unsettling forebodings and panic and other anxious emotions are the main ones, which can be mixed with inability to concentrate, increased alertness, memory impairment, etc.
2.Somatic symptoms.
Sympathetic arousal manifestations, such as sweating, dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, palpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightness, frequent urination, difficulty urinating, diarrhea, sexual dysfunction, etc.
3. Motor symptoms.
Tremor, increased small movements, inability to sit still, wandering back and forth and agitation, etc.
Treatment
Some explanatory psychotherapy can be adopted. Psychotherapy is extremely important to cure or relieve patients’ anxiety symptoms. Some anti-anxiety drugs are also used for treatment.