Treatment for Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks

Stress is an experience that all people worldwide have experienced, which acts as a warning mechanism.

As strange as it may seem, anxiety is a mechanism necessary for the person's organism. It is a normal reaction of the human organism to the imminent danger. It acts as a mechanism to protect and mobilize against the threat and helps the individual adapt to the positive as well as the negative events that occur in life.

In cases where the brain estimates that there is a risk, this mechanism emits warning messages through the symptoms that the person is experiencing.

However, there are cases where this mechanism is malfunctioning when anxiety

  • It is too intense
  • It goes beyond exposure to some danger
  • It is presented in situations where the risk assessment does not correspond to reality
  • It occurs without any significant reason

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders in the general population with a frequency of 3-5% in the general population, with women being more likely to develop an anxiety disorder.

The main element of these disorders is excessive stress. Strenuous and excessive anxiety can affect these individuals in various ways, so anxiety disorders are a group that, while their main characteristic is anxiety, is expressed in various ways depending on the disorder.

As is known, all people at some point in their lives have experienced some anxiety. Simple anxiety is different from an anxiety disorder when anxiety is present for a long time with periods of high intensity. Anxiety may seem to exist without a specific cause or be so intense that it causes disorganization to a point where it interrupts even its day-to-day activities.

The most common anxiety disorders are:

  • Panic disorder
  • Agoraphobia
  • Social phobia
  • Special phobias
  • Obsessive-compulsive phobia
  • Post traumatic stress disorder
  • Acid Stress Disorder
  • Generalized anxiety disorder
  • Anxiety disorder due to physical condition
  • Anxiety disorder caused by substances
  • Anxiety disorder not otherwise specified

The symptoms of anxiety are:

  • Subjective feelings of tension and frustration
  • Excessive regret
  • Irritability
  • Nervousness
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Body symptoms (palpitations, feeling drowned, tremor, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain)
  • Symptoms of increased consciousness (increased frenzy, over-vigor)
  • Cognitive dysfunction (lack of attention, concentration problem)
  • Avoid stressful situations

In Veresies Clinic, the treatment of these disorders usually involves pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy. Psychotherapy helps the individual to cope with the physical reactions of fear and to modify the thoughts and behavior that perpetuate him.