What are the psychological treatments for anxiety disorders?

1. Psychotherapy: (1) systematic desensitization therapy: the main thing is to let the patient slowly exposed to the stimuli that cause anxiety and fear of neurosis, and at the same time through the psychological state of relaxation to fight against anxiety, so as to play the purpose of eliminating anxiety as well as fear.

(2) Full-course therapy: the opposite of systemic detachment therapy, the beginning of the treatment allows the patient to enter the most fearful situation, generally can be used in an imaginative way, encouraging the patient to imagine the most fearful scene, in the repeated fear of stimulation, so that the patient because of anxiety and nervousness, heartbeat increases, dyspnea, blanching and other vegetative nervous system reactions. However, it is forbidden to use it for patients with weak constitution, heart disease, high blood pressure and weak tolerance.

(3) Cognitive behavioral therapy: It is a short-term psychotherapeutic method to change bad cognition by changing thinking beliefs and behaviors, so as to eliminate bad emotions and behaviors.

2. Drugs: such as commonly used anti-anxiety drugs lorazepam, alprazolam, etc., can be used to relieve the patient's anxiety symptoms, when the effect is not lasting, and long-term use can lead to dependence; β-blocker propranolol, etc., can be used to alleviate the patient's symptoms of heart palpitations