Anxiety Disorders
Understanding and Navigating Anxiety Disorders.
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How is Anxiety Diagnosed?
Anxiety diagnosis involves a detailed clinical assessment, considering symptoms, medical history, and social factors, using DSM-5 criteria to identify specific disorders like GAD or panic disorder. Diagnostic tools like questionnaires may assist in this process.
How does Thrive treat anxiety?
Thrive adopts a holistic method in devising personalized treatment strategies for anxiety. Our unique treatment alignment framework initially identifies clients primarily diagnosed with anxiety, integrating them into age-similar peer groups also tackling anxiety challenges.
Fostering peer solidarity among individuals facing similar mental health conditions is our pathway to enduring recovery.
Moreover, every client is paired with a dedicated therapist, proficient in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), relational therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This ensures tailored one-on-one therapeutic support, aiding clients in managing their anxiety, understanding their triggers, and improving their interpersonal relationships.
What are the best therapy options for anxiety treatment?
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CBT helps people recognize and change anxious thoughts, like catastrophizing or black-and-white thinking, and replace them with more rational and balanced thoughts. In CBT, people also learn practical coping strategies to manage their anxious symptoms, like relaxation techniques and slow exposure to facing fears.
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Psychodynamic relational therapy helps people with anxiety look at how emotional conflicts and relational dynamics contribute to their anxiety symptoms. By building a strong and open relationship with their therapist, clients can explore their unconscious fears and anxieties and how these affect their current relationships and behaviors. Over time, these insights can help people with anxiety develop coping skills and reduce anxiety symptoms.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people accept their anxious thoughts and feelings rather than fighting against them. It also teaches people mindfulness skills to observe and reduce the impact of anxiety. These skills, over time, help people make choices that are aligned with their values and goals, even when anxiety makes it challenging. Overall, ACT enables people to feel more in control of their anxiety.
Frequently Asked Questions about Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural and adaptive response to stress or perceived threats. It involves feelings of unease, worry, and apprehension, often accompanied by physical symptoms such as increased heart rate, sweating, and muscle tension.
While occasional anxiety is common, it becomes a concern when it becomes chronic and interferes with daily life. Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive, persistent anxiety and can benefit from various treatments, including therapy, medication, and lifestyle changes.
Some of the main types of anxiety disorders are as follows:
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): Excessive worry and anxiety about various aspects of life
- Panic disorder: Recurrent and unexpected panic attacks
- Specific phobias: Intense fear of specific objects or situations
- Social anxiety: An intense fear of social situations and a persistent worry about being judged or embarrassed in front of others.
- Separation anxiety disorder: Excessive fear of separation from attachment figures, often seen in children.
Symptoms of anxiety can include:
- Excessive worry, fear, and restlessness
- Irritability
- A sense of impending doom
- Rapid heart rate and shortness of breath
- Racing thoughts
- Difficulty concentrating
- Avoiding anxiety-inducing situations or triggers
It’s important to understand that not everyone with anxiety will have all these symptoms, and their severity and duration can vary widely.
Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental health conditions globally. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 3.6% of people worldwide have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can happen to anyone at any age, but it’s most commonly diagnosed in younger people and often begins in childhood.
The causes of anxiety vary from person to person, but it is believed to be a result of genetic, biological, and environmental factors. Genetic predisposition, brain chemistry imbalances, and chronic stress or trauma can all contribute to anxiety.
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