Sometimes things make us anxious and we get a little adrenaline and “fight or flight,” which is normal. It is good to have a little anxiety to rev up your engines if a bear was chasing you. This kind of anxiety is essentially normal. However, a lot of diseases fall under clinical anxiety which can impede a person’s very way of life.
Clinical anxiety is when something known or unknown causes us to completely break down, close down, and lock out. Some of the problems a person might have can be general or very specific. Specifically, a person might experience phobias, and generally they might experience fear of the unknown.
Other diseases that have evolved out of clinical anxiety are coping mechanisms, such as obsessive compulsive disorder. When a person has difficulty dealing with whatever anxiety they have, the only way they can cope is by cleaning their hands a lot, or locking the door over and over again. The reason they do that is because that is the only thing they feel they can control. Wouldn’t it be sad to have to deal with such an issue?
You shouldn’t feel ashamed or guilty for having these diseases for they can be treated. They can be treated for short term or if needed for long term.
Short term treatment includes psychotherapy, or benzodiazepines, and long term treatment includes Buspar, or SSRI antidepressants which have dual effect on depression and anxiety, like Paxil, or Prozac.
It is much safer to deal with clinical anxiety with appropriate therapy than to self treat with alcohol, smoking, or illicit drugs. Don’t feel stigmatized even if you have fallen so far as to need other means for a way out. There is nothing to be ashamed of. We can help.
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