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 having other morbid thoughts.
When people hear that their friend is suffering from Severe Social Anxiety, they will sometimes try to push the person into confrontational situations. This kind of shock therapy is a big mistake, not unlike pushing someone in a lake to teach them how to swim.
I would strongly recommend keeping people that suffer from Severe Anxiety Disorder symptoms in minimum stress situations as possible. Do not try to be clever by making your friend face their source of anxiety, since that will be likely to cause more harm than good.
Medical treatments for anxiety
Though doctors most of the time will prescribe Benzodiazepines to their anxious patients, it is not proven to help people with severe anxiety disorders. This is why psychiatric help is always recommended for such people, whether it would be self-help or professional assistance. Prescription drugs should be regarded as last resort.
Prescription medicines will only hide the outside symptoms of Anxiety, but they really do not touch the core of the problem. By contrast, psychiatric help will attack problem at its root: the brain.
You see, it is natural to be afraid. It’s a basic human emotion that we are all familiar with. The 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.
Anxiety disorders are very much treatable, but a certain reconditioning of the brain is required. This is something that can be done with psychological counseling, not with drugs. If you are worried getting such counseling might be too costly, you will be happy to know there are other inexpensive treatments, and self-help is always an option.
