Anxiety is a normal response in the individual in situations like threat or stressful events, and it is short-lived and controllable. It makes the individual ready to face for a physical response to perceived danger.
Anxiety becomes clinically important if they are.
Abnormally severe
If it prolongs for a longer period.
If it persists even in the absence of stressful situations.
If it affects the physical, social, or occupational matters.
Features of anxiety
The symptoms may be a feature of some physical conditions like withdrawal from drugs, decreased blood-sugar level, hypothyroidism, etc.
Anxiety may be purely psychological like-
Fear and apprehension
Irritability
Disturbed sleep
Difficulty in concentration
Alternatively, it may be physical like increased muscle tension.
Palpitation
Sweating
Diarrhoea
Frequent micturition
Dryness of mouth
Tightness of chest
Numbness of the body
Faintness
Features of generalized anxiety
It is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that prolong for more than six months and persist almost always and not connected with any particular events or circumstances.
There is the difficulty in concentration.
Worries about future misfortunes.
Headache
Restlessness
Dry mouth
Discomfort in the pit of the stomach
Excessive sweating
WHAT IS PANIC DISORDER?
It is the occurrence of severe paroxysmal anxiety characterized by shortness of breath, palpitations and perspirations ,faintness, chest pain and person feel the imminent danger of death or collapse.
Features of panic disorder
Sudden unexpected episodes
Palpitation
Shortness of breath
Fear of impending death
Try to escape from the situation where the attack occurred.
WHAT IS A PHOBIA?
Specific phobias
It is fear of particular objects like particular animals or insects or certain situations like flying, or an individual like a particular doctor.
Social phobias
In the situations, people fear that he is evaluated by others like public speaking.
WHAT IS AGORAPHOBIA?
It is the excessive anxiety or fear in public places, or being in a crowd, or standing in a queue or using public transport.
Homeopathic treatment
The aim of homeopathic treatment is to live a tension-free life. Along with counseling homeopathic medicines can effectively manage the anxiety disorders. The duration of the treatment depends on the severity as the disease and also the duration of the disease. If the patient is on conventional treatment, he has to continue the medicines for a period and when homeopathic medicines begin to act, the patient himself can feel that he can with draw the medicines. Homeopathy can manage different types of phobias and panic attacks. In homeopathic repertory, medicines are given under different headings for various types of anxieties,
Usual medicines are Aconite, Belladona, Hyos, Stram, Arg nit etc.. However, self-treatment is quite dangerous, and the patient has to follow the advice of a well experienced doctor.
