Anxiety treatment comes in many forms, and some are more effective than others. The only definitive way to know if a particular course of treatment will prove to be an anxiety cure for you is to try it, since we’re all different, and we all react differently.
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Here’s a quick summary of the other anxiety treatment options available to you:
Anxiety Medication:
In severe or chronic cases of GAD, your doctor may prescribe one of many anti anxiety drugs. These typically fall into one of two categories - SSRIs and Benzodiazepines.
SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are anti-depressants that are most commonly prescribed for clinical depression, but they are also used to treat many forms of anxiety. They’re the most common drug prescribed to people with GAD.
SSRIs work by altering the chemistry in the brain in order to prevent the reabsorption of serotonin. This type of drug generally has fewer side-effects than other anti-depressants, but you may still experience things such as nausea, drowsiness, dizziness, weight loss/weight gain, sexual side-effects, and tremors.
The most common SSRIs prescribed for GAD are:
Benzodiazepines are a type of sedative, and are usually only prescribed for short-term use. They may be prescribed to help sleep, or to help in cases of severe, short-term anxiety.
The most common Benzodiazepines prescribed for GAD are:
Drugs for anxiety do work for some people, but in the majority of cases they prove ineffective. Whether they work for you or not does not change the fact that you will almost certainly experience several unpleasant side-effects when you take any of the drugs listed above.
Natural therapies such as the ones promoted on this website are therefore always a far better option.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a purely psychological approach to treating anxiety, and is based on developing an understanding of how your thoughts and feeling impact your behaviour and emotions.
The aim of this approach is to put a stop to any negative thought patterns you might be experiencing, which may be the root-cause of your anxiety. CBT is focused largely on exposure-type therapies, forcing people to face theirs fears in the hope that the process will eventually alleviate their negative reactions to whatever it is that normally provokes anxiety.
Most people with anxiety who try CBT report that it made very little difference to the quality of their lives or to the severity of their anxiety.
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