Do You Have an Anxiety Disorder or Suffer From Depression?
Do you know how it feels to be anxious? The nervousness, heart palpitations and sweating, before they call a business. The churning in the stomach, before you ask the pretty girl on a date. The tension you feel when you speak to a group.
Anxiety for some of us is a good thing. It will be our willingness to take action. It makes you study harder for an exam and keeps you alert when a presentation. Basically, it helps us in a state of peak performance – are ready to go.
This describes most of us.
What about the 19th 1 million people (13 3%) in the U.S. who have an anxiety disorder? Instead of a helpful emotion, anxiety can interfere with normal daily activities and make a person afraid to leave their homes.
An anxiety disorder is not just nervous, it is a disease brought on by biological or previous life experiences. Anxiety disorders, people feel anxious most of the time for no apparent reason. These diseases can cause paralysis and prevent the suffering of the implementation of common place and seemingly simple tasks.
The joint treatment of anxiety disorders is usually medication, therapy or a combination of both. However, drug therapy only works on 30-45% of the population and then there are the side effects and the apparent dependence on drugs.
And what about the rest of the population? Those who do not help the medicine? What should they do, continue to suffer?
Everyone has their ups and downs, but for people with depression may outweigh the depths of the UPS. This can cause problems with everyday activities such as eating, sleeping, working, and dealing with friends. Depression not only affects your emotions, but also the way you think, how you behave and how they function physically. Symptoms of depression include, but are not limited to;
* Constant feelings of sadness, irritability, tension, or
* Decreased interest or pleasure in usual activities or hobbies
* Loss of energy, fatigue, despite lack of activity
* A change in appetite, with significant weight loss or weight gain
* A change in sleeping patterns, such as insomnia, early morning awakening, or sleeping too much
* Restlessness or feeling slowed down,
* Diminished ability to make decisions or concentrate
* Feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness or guilt
* Thoughts of suicide or death
If you experience any of these symptoms, we recommend that you consult your doctor to determine if you suffer from depression.
Another affective disorder is dysthymia. People who suffer from it, were down slightly for two years or longer. The symptoms are similar to major depression, except they are less strict.
People with Seasonal Affective Disorder symptoms are the same as any form of depression. However, it is the repetition of these symptoms during certain seasons that it separates itself from other forms of depression.
Postpartum depression is a type of depression in women who have just given birth can occur. It usually occurs in the first few months after birth, but it can happen to the first year. Women with postpartum depression typically have difficulty bonding with their new born child.
Bipolar disorder is another type of depression. Some days a person suffers, it can out of a difficult time even to have out of bed. Then the next day they can really feel good (mania) and then irritated and angry.
The person with bipolar disorder have mood swings, sometimes back and forth between depression and mania quickly in the same day or in a short period of time.
The type of depression is important as it is treated, so make sure if you made one of the symptoms we have described, suffer, you learn your doctor, or if the immediate situation appears serious, go directly to your hospital emergency room.
We believe that alternatives to conventional treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. Assistance not only from drugs, but that alternative methods are proving to be very effective in the long term.
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