Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Part 2

Lab Test
There's no lab test for GAD, so the diagnosis is made based on your description of your symptoms. It's important to be specific when telling your doctor about your anxiety. What do you worry about? How often? Does your anxiety interfere with any activities? You may have GAD if you have been feeling anxious or worrying too much for at least six months

Psychotherapy    

In providing therapy to treat the anxiety, one kind of talk has been found to be very effective. It is called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or in short CBT. In this talk, the counsellor or the professional will assist the individual to identify their negative thoughts and actions. In this therapy, CBT may include other related work such as homework, example listing down the thoughts that can an individual to excess worry. The individual will also learn how to calm themselves and those sort of strategies. Individual will see the progress in 4 to 5 months and they would feel better of themselves. Often enough, mixture of both the medicine and CBT session would work well.

Drugs and Medications 

Medical prescriptions such as Cymbalta, Effexor XR, Lexapro and Paxil are common name for antidepressants that work well to lower their anxiety. At times the doctor will also recommend benzodiazepine for a short term solution. There are also various drugs used to treat this, include Ativan, Klonopin, Valium and Xanax. But these drugs carry a risk of addiction. Always be aware of both pros and cons of the medications you are recommended to take. 

Self - Care 

Changing your lifestyle also can help treatment for GAD. Simple stuffs like avoiding caffeine, alcohol or common street drugs can tremendously assist to reduce the anxiety symptoms. Get enough rest and practice healthy food dietary. Relaxation techniques such as yoga and meditation and of course exercise can help very much. There are proven evidence that consistent moderate exercise and physical activity can help to calm you down.

Alternate Remedies 
The are other alternate options as well which including non-traditional remedies for GAD. But these are not certified or known if it has worked well. Massage is good for most people, listening to your favourite music that can smooth and relax your mind is also good and benefitting. Another one is acupuncture, which seen as a treatment for anxiety but is has not shown any proven science data that whether it works or not.

Herbal Remedies 

Although there are many traditional method of curing anxiety but there are no exact or proven evidence yet to proof that herbal remedy can cure or least to reduce the anxiety attack. Always seek your doctor’s advice prior starting any sort of herbal remedy.

Other Disorders

Individual who suffers from GAD may likely also develop other related illness such as depression, alcoholism or even drug addiction. It is bad that if in the event one of these illnesses occurs, then a second treatment also may need. It is common that anybody suffers from GAD to have other anxiety disorder. This where the panic disorder, stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia. 

Take Social Anxiety Disorder Test and evaluate yourself if you are suffering from social phobia. Early detection is better than let it being deteriorated.