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Why Obsessive Precautions Increase Anxiety and Unhappiness?
It is that people tend to anxiety are very obsessive with their health. Any abnormal heart palpitation relate it to a cardiac arrest. By a slight headache and thought we give you a stroke. For a simple dizziness may be caused by not eating well, for a climate with high temperature, because of pregnancy or lack of hydration, we believe that we have an incurable tumor in the head and that we are going out for the eyes. Is it true what I just said, right?
Okay worry about our health. Being healthy is a priority if we want to have a nice and happy life. The problem arises when we become obsessed with our health too. If we live differently worried about each symptom in our bodies (which are often natural changes in humans that occur at puberty, or in the case of pregnancy, to name a few examples), we’ll be going to the doctor all the time. It gets worse still, there are people who have been dozens of times by the same doctor. Not convinced by what he said the first, and go to a second, then a third and so on for everything that happens (and if they are not sent to psychology).
Other people not only care about themselves, but have an obsession for the rest. It can be your partner, your parents, your friends, etc.. They call all the time to ask them how they are and they are so annoying that people no longer want to receive calls from him or her. Then they think they do not want to be their friends, that they forget they exist and foremost, these obsessive people get upset about that. Therefore, it creates an atmosphere of unhappiness and sometimes depression, all for worrying too much about health.
Again, wanting to be healthy is beneficial and admirable, but we must not forget that obsessions can be very dangerous and counterproductive.
What Are the Treatment Anxiety Options?
Treating your anxiety problem has several objectives:
• relieve symptoms and prevent relapse.
• If you have panic attacks, reduce the frequency, duration and intensity and reduce avoidance behaviors.
Standard treatments are psychotherapy and medication, which can be used together or not, depending on the type of anxiety disorder you have.
Psychotherapy
Individual or group psychological interventions, with varying degrees of complexity, management-oriented and emotional factor modification of thought and behavior that keep anxiety and / or its consequences.
Medication
For the treatment of anxiety, antidepressants and antianxiety medications are used.
Your family doctor is the best person to tell which drug is most suitable, how long you need it and what side effects may cause.
Other treatments
• Self-help treatments: Reading and applying specific self-help programs for anxiety disorders (texts and subsequent programmed exercises to learn to manage and control anxiety).
• Herbs: Some herbs such as valerian, passionflower, ginkgo biloba and kava extract appears that may reduce symptoms of anxiety, but further research on its safety and efficacy.
What is the development of anxiety and distress?
Anxiety problems have periods of reduction and disappearance of symptoms for a variable time interval.
As with any other chronic disease (diabetes, hypertension,
etc..), with proper treatment, you can live with this problem properly, restoring normalcy in their lives. So, do not suffer unnecessarily and visit your health center as soon as possible, since the evolution of the more favorable your problem is detected sooner.
Effective treatment will help reduce symptoms, improve their self-esteem and get back to enjoying life again.
Sometimes, there are ups and downs in the process, but the obstacles and setbacks are a normal part of learning. Do not be discouraged.
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Tips for Managing Your Anxiety
• If you are doing psychotherapy, it is important to practice at home she learned in those exercises that will be very useful, such as relaxation and breathing.
• Medication sometimes brings unpleasant side effects usually disappear or fading after the first few weeks, but have to remember how important it is to take the treatment and not interrupt.
• Plan rationally their daily tasks, prioritize your needs and if for any issue cannot be done all, to think that after a day comes another.
• Try to make room for everyday tasks include among its activities that will find it more enjoyable and pleasurable: reading, listening to music, do some exercise, walking, anything that is relaxing for you.
• Be sure to practice those activities that provide sensation “recharge your batteries”.