Anxiety Disorder Treatment Center
What is Anxiety Disorder?
About eighteen percent of American adults suffer from some type of anxiety disorder. Generally, people with an anxiety disorder feel extremely fearful, anxious, unsure of themselves and have difficulty making decisions. The average person will experience such fear and anxiousness for a limited period of time, but people who suffer from this particular disorder are nervous and fearful most, if not all, of the time. Worry can be about health or potential health problems, family problems, concerns about money in the present coupled with worries about the future, or any combination of worries with or without real cause.
Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Trouble relaxing
- Easily startled
- Difficulty concentrating
- Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep
- Fatigue
- Headaches
- Muscle Tension
- Muscle Aches
- Trembling
- Difficulty swallowing
- Sweating
- Nausea
- Feeling out of breath
The severity of the condition worsens with time and under stress. There seems to be a chemically related component to generalized anxiety disorder. However, when anxiety disorders are combined with drugs and alcohol addiction, the symptoms and the ability to manage the symptoms are reduced. If a person suffers from undiagnosed anxiety and he or she takes a substance to ease the anxiety, withdrawal from the drug will increase the level of anxiety. Ease is associated with taking a pill or a drink. In this manner, a cyclic relationship develops between anxiety, substance use, and withdrawal.
Once the correlation between an anxiety disorder and substance abuse is established, dual diagnosed treatment is the best approach to stabilize both conditions.
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