A severe anxiety disorder and deep depression most of the time walk hand in hand.
A severe anxiety disorder and deep depression most of the time walk hand in hand. It’s not unusual for a person who suffers from a severe anxiety attacks to start thinking about suicide and other morbid thoughts.
Most people will think that it is nothing more than a cry for help and delay their action to help such a person, but the fact is that people suffering from severe anxiety disorder will genuinely attempt to take their life. It is strongly recommended to treat such people very carefully.
Most of the time, when people hear that their friend is suffering from Severe Social Anxiety , will try to push their friend into situations that he is anxious of. This is a big mistake. Even if you think that by pushing your friend in the middle of the lake will teach him how to swim, chances are that he might also drown before he learns swimming.
I would strongly recommend keeping people that suffer from Severe Anxiety Disorder symptoms in minimum stress situations as possible. Do not try to be hero by adding some pressure into your friend’s life, this can only cause more harm. Doing so might only increase the levels of his Anxiety.
Though doctors most of the time will prescribe Benzodiazepines to their Anxious patients, it is not proven to help severe Anxiety sufferers. This is why psychiatric help is always recommended for such people, whether it would be self-help or professional assistance.
The reason for this is that medicine will only hide the outside symptoms of Anxiety, but they do not touch the core of the problem, while psychiatric help will attack problem at its root – our brain.
You see, it is natural to be afraid, it’s a daily emotion that we are all familiar with. The only problem with Severe Anxiety disorder sufferers is that their brain, because of some incident in their life, started to treat most of the regular day events as a threat. To be more specific, it is Amygdala (a small part of our brains) that is “trying too-hard” to protect us from trouble, even if that’s just something little.
So to treat Severe Anxiety Disorder Symptoms you have to affect your Amygdala, for it to return to normal functioning. “Best” Anti Anxiety Drugs that doctors prescribe (Valium, Xanax etc.), even though should do the trick, does not help to treat Anxiety Disorder. That is exactly why psychological help is needed.
Ok, sounds all great, but what about the money? Going to the “shrink” will not only make your wallet thinner, but it will take a lot of your time lying on your psychiatrist’s couch. That is exactly why I suggest my patients to be their own doctor and therapists, which is pretty easy if you know how…