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Psychological Health and Treatment Interventions



Psychological Health and Treatment Interventions

Anxiety Disorders

A disorder is a disturbance of the health or state of mental derangement. The concept refers to an imbalance that disturbs the meaning or behavior of a subject. In a state of anxiety, the body's dopamine system is operated as a response to certain problems or hazards. When this innate characteristic becomes pathological, we are in the presence of an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are linked to the consumption side of certain substances (like caffeine, marijuana or cocaine), a medical condition (hyperthyroidism, hypoglycemia) or other psychological disorders (phobias, anorexia nervosa or other).

Anxiety disorders are the most common social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder (Albero 2009, pp. 83).

Anxiety is an unpleasant state of fear that is manifested externally through various symptoms and signs, and can be normal or exaggerated response to certain stressful situations in the world we live in, but can also be an abnormal pathological response and produced by various medical conditions and / or psychiatric conditions. It may present with different symptoms such as:

Pounding in the chest

Chest pain

Dizziness or vertigo

Nausea or stomach problems

Hot flashes or chills

Shortness of breath or a feeling of suffocation

Tingling or numbness

Shaking or tremors

Feelings of unreality

Terror

Feeling lack of control

Feeling like crazy to become

Fear of dying

Excessive sweating

In general, the continued use of a substance can lead to the onset of some symptoms associated with anxiety and discomfort, irritability, or tachycardia. On the other hand, the social use of some substances is widespread. Usually the person who consumes them feels less inhibited or produce pleasurable sensations. Some people with anxiety disorders may turn to substances as a strategy to address the problem and reduce anxiety. For example, a person with difficulties in social situations can drink alcohol or take cannabis because its effects are the uninhibited and may do better in this situation (Smith, 2010). Many drugs are approved for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fortunately, some of these products have significant adverse effects or are ineffective in some people.

Anxiety is one of the most common disorders of the psyche. She accompanies many of life's stresses, as well as physical illness or mimics the symptoms. Anxiety is a universal phenomenon associated with the reaction to stress. The emergence of pathological anxiety is determined by internal (such as physiological and psychological) reasons, but can be provoked and external circumstances (but then, the severity of the trauma alert inadequate power). Thus, pathological anxiety is not associated with a real threat and the significance of the situation is inadequate. The fundamental difference between pathological anxieties from normal is that it is in material breach of the quality of human life and activity.

Normal anxiety is subjectively experienced as an uncomfortable feeling of mental discomfort associated with uncertainty about the future. The most frequent manifestations of normal anxiety are tension, doubt and unpleasant forebodings (Baer 2003, pp. 125).

In the various embodiments of pathological anxiety, these feelings usually get additional features: a ...