Anxiety disorders
(Acute anxiety reaction, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobias, Post traumatic stress, self-harm)
Most people experience some form of anxiety every day in their lives and are perfectly able to deal with it in the short term. When the causes of anxiety are under control, fear generally recedes and life returns to normal. However, for millions of people worldwide this is not possible, because they develop an anxiety disorder with symptoms afflicting them for six months or more, even if the initial physical, mental, or other stressful causes are eliminated. Quite often these people try to self medicate with abuse of alcohol or other drugs, a reaction that further complicates the initial problem. Contemporary medicine has identified at least five major categories in anxiety disorders, which although may coexist in some patients, usually one of them is predominant. The main sub-categories are: generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, various types of phobias, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Exceptional treatments based on extensive research are now available to help people who cannot function normally because of pathological anxiety.