When Anxiety Needs To Be Looked At
Recently we wrote about stress and offered ways to deal with stress. We acknowledged that stress in not necessarily unhealthy in fact.
When considering stress, when do we pass into something known as anxiety? What is anxiety and when does it become a diagnosis?
Saying we feel anxious or stressed does not mean we have anxiety or an anxiety disorder. Unless you have an underlying diagnosis you will be encouraged to reduce your stress and learn healthy ways to deal with anxiety driven behaviors and symptoms. Remember that medication often reduces anxiety but does not teach you have to cope with it.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is an overused term for several issues that can cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, and excessive worry. Anxiety can manifest into physical symptoms. The link here provides a description of anxiety disorders, and guides like this outline ways to treat anxiety.
It is important to realize that everyone experiences anxiety. Whether it be dealing with an exam, an interview, the adoption process ~ these feelings are typical and justified. However if the symptoms of anxiety begin to consistently affect one’s sleep or daily functioning, then the level of anxiety might need to be examined and a plan of action put into place.
What Causes Anxiety?
Anxiety disorders are caused by any number of issues or a combination of issues from environment, to medical to genetics. Often Anxiety develops from a traumatic event or abuse suffered early on in life. Or it can come as a result of the prolonged use of drugs like meth/ice. Anecdotal evidence has suggested that overly strict parenting styles have helped contribute to the development of anxiety in later life.
What is the Treatment for Anxiety?
Anxiety can be treated via counseling, CBT, or targeted therapy to address mental causes of anxiety and help construct healthy coping mechanisms. There are many anti-anxiety/anti-depressant medications such as citalopram and sertraline which can help mitigate symptoms of anxiety that can be prescribed by your doctor. Self-treating methods like medicinal marijuana are also said to be able to treat anxiety and lower the production of stress hormones, these can be bought from a place like iamcafe.com or may also need to be prescribed by a doctor, depending on your location.
Where full-strength marijuana is not yet legal, there may be other products within the cannabis family that are. In the UK, for example, people can buy CBD gummies UK legally online or in a physical shop and enjoy the potential anxiety-relief benefits that CBD can offer. There are multiple e-stores that could potentially help you procure cannabis-based products. Blessed CBD and similar others could prove to be a potential solution for you to get your hands on some green. But, as mentioned above, sometimes anxiety can also come as a byproduct of the overuse of substances like meth. If at all this is the case, and you are looking for solutions to your drug problems then you can go for options like ice addiction treatment in Thailand (or anywhere you feel comfortable).
How Can Anxiety Be Prevented?
Honestly, we don’t believe you can prevent anxiety but you can certainly work toward lessening the symptoms. Here are some tips:
- Develop a healthy sleep routine
- Exercise regularly
- Eat healthy
- Reduce or eliminate drinks and food with caffeine
- Eliminate alcohol and harmful substances
- Identify a counselor or therapist
- Seek support through support groups
