What Are the Treatments for Anxiety Disorders?
The main aim of any treatment is to help you to reduce your symptoms so that anxiety no longer affects you on a day-to-day basis. The treatment options will depend on what condition you have, and how severely you are affected. They may include one or more of the following. NON-MEDICATION TREATMENTS Understanding your-self Recognising the causes of your symptoms and talking things over with a friend, family member, health professional or counsellor may help you to make sense of what is happening to you. In particular, some people worry that the physical symptoms of anxiety such as palpitations are due to a physical illness. Worrying about these symptoms can make your anxiety worse. Understanding that you have an anxiety disorder is unlikely to cure it, but it often helps you to understand the predicament you are in and then leads you to take action to reduce and/or effectively manage the symptoms you are experiencing. Counselling Counselling may help some people with certain conditions.
