How to treat anxiety disorder?

The treatment of anxiety mainly includes drug therapy, psychotherapy, physical therapy and self-regulation therapy. Drug therapy mainly includes western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Benzodiazepines commonly used in western medicine treatment, such as lorazepam, alprazolam, oxazepam, etc., can effectively and quickly relieve anxiety symptoms, and the onset time is generally about 30-60 minutes. However, these drugs can not be used for a long time, nor can they be used in large quantities because of dependence. Long-term use will be addictive, and large-scale use may be dangerous.

Anti-anxiety drugs are mainly SSRI drugs, such as commonly used sertraline and paroxetine. These drugs are independent, safe and have fewer side effects.

Psychotherapy methods mainly consider cognitive behavioral therapy, especially humanistic therapy and psychoanalysis. All these can be done. By establishing a good relationship with the psychotherapist, you can find the reasons that make you nervous and anxious in a safe and warm environment, change your bad understanding or correct your distorted beliefs, and you may gradually relax. The main methods of physical therapy are transcranial magnetic stimulation or EEG therapy, which can be used. There are also commonly used music therapy, hypnotherapy and relaxation training, which are also possible. The most important thing in self-adjustment is to improve your self-confidence. You must raise your awareness of your current anxiety and try to divert your attention. Only by comprehensively applying the above methods can you get better. The treatment of anxiety disorder generally adopts psychotherapy plus drug therapy as the basic comprehensive treatment. If the anxiety disorder is not too serious and the personal mental pain is not very strong, the normal working and living conditions can basically be adhered to, and the body has no particularly serious persistent discomfort symptoms. Under this premise, you can simply receive psychotherapy and complete some professional treatments with the help of professional psychotherapists or consultants. An important premise of psychotherapy is that I am willing to cooperate with the treatment, which is one of the conditions to achieve the ideal effect.

In addition to psychotherapy, some common anxiety disorders still need medication, especially those with some fear symptoms, such as social anxiety or panic attacks, acute anxiety attacks and so on. For patients with these characteristics, general drug therapy can bring more positive curative effect and help them recover faster.

In addition to these professional treatments, patients themselves have to accept their own physical pain, because when anxiety attacks, it is even more painful. Patients should gradually realize that all kinds of physical discomfort are not caused by serious diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to control repeated medical treatment as much as possible, and on this basis, enrich the content of life appropriately, especially adhere to the entertainment and leisure activities that suit you, and adhere to regular and appropriate exercise. These activities will play a very positive role in the rehabilitation of anxiety disorder, controlling symptoms and achieving clinical cure.