Understanding Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders
Very similar to depression, anxiety disorders emerge from an intricate set of
vulnerabilities: brain chemistry, genetics, personality, and life altering events.
Merely 20 million American adults are plagued by anxiety disorders.

Anxiety and fear are real emotions. The terms anxiety and fear have unique scientific meanings, but everyday language has made them quite interchangeable. It is known that phobia is a type of anxiety that is also defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV-TR) as a "persistent or irrational fear."

Definitions of Fear : an emotional and physiological response to a recognized external threat (eg, a robber or accident about to happen). Anxiety is a pleasant emotional state, its causes are not easy to recognize. It is usually accompanied by physiological reaction that may lead to fatigue and eventually exhaustion. Because fear of intending danger causes similar unpleasant mental and physical changes, most people use the terms fear and anxiety interchangeably.

Thanks to the advancements in clinical trials and medical science, anxiety disorders are treatable. The fact is that approximately 30 percent of anxiety disorder sufferers receive treatment.

Are we really looking for happy pills when feeling depressed?

We tend to reach for that vitamin C bottle when we're down with a flu or a cold. Sometimes when we're ill we lose our appetites while our immune system is fighting the infection. We use a up resources during food digestion. Lack of appetite is an effective way to rechannel the body's natural defensive powers.

Depression is also a sign, a sign that we're unhappy. That's obvious, but think about it a second. If some deeper layer of ourselves is trying to telling us that we are unhappy is it likelier that taking some happy pills is going to make us truly happy, or taking the time to reconsider just what it is that makes us feel satisfied? In this way depression can be very much the hidden opportunity for growth. When we're forced to reconsider our life choices, daily activities and the like we're apt to discover or revisit different ways of thinking and experiences that fit better with the person we are today.

With the exception of extreme cases where individuals truly feel they might harm themselves where anti-depressant drug therapy may help give some extra space to tackle depression in manageable packet. Depression should be seen as the heralding of a burst of change. Change, as we know, is the only constant. We feel death pangs as we outgrow old perspectives and ways of living; just as night unfolds to the next day, depression always yields the birth of new happiness, fresh ideas about what is satisfying and how to manifest these inspirations in our lives. In the meantime go ahead and let yourself feel bummed or downright crushed and hollow. These are the little downs that signal our personal evolutionary milestones.

Do you feel moody, unhappy or even depressed?

We can sometimes feel moody or depress, maybe for just a short while

But it becomes a problem when it last more than a few days, thats when things starts to spiral downwards..

In todays modern and fast paced culture we look for quick solutions.

When it comes to physical, emotional or mental discomfort this means looking for simple and quick solutions to whatever troubles us. If you get a flu, take some medication. If you get depressed, go to the doctor and he/she will give you some anti-depressants..


Treating your symptoms of bad mood rather than looking at the underlying root causes or at the bigger picture of a unified mind-body health tends focus on the symptoms, which is usually short lived solution. Symptoms are the body's way of telling us that somethings aint going right, that it is getting things that will cause harm to it if prolonged, or may be a signal of fighting off infection and virus attack. This case, symptoms can help us determine what it is that will help the body in its fight.
What it wants in order to repair or replenish itself.

The signs of depression may means just that message from your mind and body.

Depending on the severity, appropriate action of identifying the cause and seeking treatment for depression are necessary.