Posts for 'Anxiety' Category

While it may be hard to find someone who has not experienced some form of anxiety in their life, there are those whose anxiety never fades which can make it impossible for suffers to lead a normal life. When the ability to participate in certain events or go to certain places is prevented by an unshakable fear of things that could possibly occur many find themselves becoming reclusive instead of enjoying the life they once led.

Suffers of anxiety disorders may think that their "disease" is something that is uncontrollable, but that could not be further from the truth. Those suffering from some form of anxiety disorder can take hold of their symptoms with the right form of treatment for anxiety disorders since it is a condition and not an illness that causes people to become physically, psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually fearful or distraught over any number of situations. When this happens a person's normal anxiety turns into a disorder because the mind and body can no longer respond to situations in a normal manner, but no matter how bad your symptoms are you can take hold of your anxiety with the right help and support in treating anxiety disorders.

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Ischemic heart patients with depression and anxiety were more likely to suffer chest pain than patients without those psychosocial symptoms, a new study shows.

The findings, published in the June 30 edition of Circulation, suggest that angina associated with blocked arteries may also have a psychosocial component.

Coronary artery disease patients with even moderate anxiety were four times more likely to have angina (95% CI 1.91 to 11.66, P=0.001), while patients with clinical depression were three times more likely to have frequent angina (95% CI 1.45 to 6.69, P=0.004).

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Adding talk therapy to typical anxiety treatments that often include drugs helped older adults cope better, improving their quality of life and lowering their risk for depression and other health problems.

An increasingly popular type of therapy called cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, which includes specific problem-solving strategies, significantly improved levels of worry, depression and general mental health compared with those who got usual care such as anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs, they said.

This study is the first to suggest that CBT can be useful for managing worry and associated symptoms among older patients in primary care," Melinda Stanley of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said in a statement.

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Adding talk therapy to typical anxiety treatments that often include drugs helped older adults cope better, improving their quality of life and lowering their risk for depression and other health problems, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

An increasingly popular type of therapy called cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, which includes specific problem-solving strategies, significantly improved levels of worry, depression and general mental health compared with those who got usual care such as anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs, they said.

"This study is the first to suggest that CBT can be useful for managing worry and associated symptoms among older patients in primary care," Melinda Stanley of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said in a statement.

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