We can all feel anxious before a difficult interview or during important decisions we need to make for our future. This anxiety is functional and natural. With anxiety, we increase the time and attention we devote to solving problems. At least we have a truly anxiety-provoking situation, an acceptable level of anxiety compared to it, and a healthy functioning daily life.
In General Anxiety Disorder, anxiety becomes severe, unusual and constant. We seem to impose this tension and unrest on ourselves. Either there is no situation that would cause anxiety, or that situation does not have the potential for anxiety of this severity. Therefore, anxiety begins to permeate and spread into every aspect of our economic situation, health, family issues, professional and private lives. The person thinks that this anxiety, which disrupts his life, is unstoppable and that he protects himself. Even when he can't say what he's worried about... Despite this, he also admits that what he feels is an exaggerated reaction, but he still can't help himself. The worst always awaits the anxious person in the future.
In children's anxiety disorder, they are not even aware that the anxiety they feel towards the situations they encounter is unreal. We, as adults, should tell them how much we should worry about which situations. A way of thinking about the future in the form of "What if this or that...", a perfectionism that constantly criticizes oneself, and the need to be accepted by family and friends are the main causes of anxiety disorders in children.
General Anxiety Disorder, like other mental disorders, occurs with different symptoms in everyone, but it is still a common disorder. There is a common framework. An anxious person;
- An ongoing and severe state of anxiety
- An unrealistic approach to the problems he encounters
- Restlessness, tension, tension
- Inability to tolerate the unknown
- Inability to focus
- Inability to fall asleep or wake up
- Exhaustion
- Anger
- Muscle and stomach aches
- Sweating palms
- Fast heartbeat.
Most of these symptoms are depression, panic disorder, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Just as it can be seen in compulsive disorder and addiction problems, general anxiety disorder also causes these disorders to occur. There is a subtle distinction between general anxiety disorder and panic attacks. The anxiety felt in a panic attack is short-term and severe. There is a specific situation towards which anxiety is directed. In general anxiety disorder, although the anxiety is not as severe as in a panic attack, it spreads over a long period of time and infiltrates almost every aspect of life.
It is thought that problems in neural communication between the regions of the brain specialized for reasoning and emotions cause anxiety. Gastroesophageal reflux disease, thyroid, heart diseases and menopause can also cause concern, and this point should be taken into consideration during the diagnosis process and necessary interventions should be made. Family history of anxiety is an important determinant. This finding also reveals that DID and other clinical diseases have genetic bases. Traumas experienced in childhood or adulthood, death of a relative, chronic diseases, and long-term exposure to stressful changes and events affect whether we will experience anxiety disorders in the future.
Within GKB Drug treatments used are divided into two as long-term and short-term. Drugs such as Xanax, Klonopin and Ativan, which are used to reduce anxiety, are recommended for the short term because there is a risk of addiction. Antidepressants such as Buspar, Celexa and Prozac show their effects over a long period of time and do not carry the risk of addiction or serious side effects. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most effective method that reduces symptoms in a short time, as in other disorders. After a training process in which the client is explained the function of the worries, which ones will work and which ones will not, the client's own anxiety story is studied. When does he feel anxious, what is the severity, duration and function of this anxiety? He is then helped to look at his concerns realistically. With relaxation and breathing exercises, attempts are made to change the cognitive universe created for their anxiety and, as a result, to shape their behavior.
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