Various types of Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is a feeling of unease. Anxiety is only considered to be a mental health problem when it is prolonged, severe and is interfering with everyday activities. Fortunately, most anxiety disorders are highly treatable with psychotherapy, drugs, or a combination of both. There are at least nine identified types of anxiety disorders, include generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, specific phobia, separation anxiety, school avoidance, and agoraphobia. Anxiety disorders in children can range from a simple adjustment disorder to more difficult and debilitating disorders such as panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. It's normal to feel anxious when facing something difficult or dangerous, and mild anxiety can be a positive and useful experience. Excessive anxiety is often associated with other mental health problems, such as depression. Unfortunately, many people with anxiety disorders don't seek treatment because they do not believe they have a legitimate illness, or they fear the reaction of family and friends.
Sometimes anxiety can be associated with a physical illness, such as thyroid disorder. For this reason it's advisable to see your GP in order to rule out a physical cause. Symptoms occur with varying frequency and intensity but may include all of those listed above as well as trembling, chest pain, nausea, and fear. You may fear you are going crazy or dying. Some people may also have a sense of being detached from reality. Anxiety can be a long-term disorder where you feel worried most of the time about things that might go wrong. Cognitive behavioral therapy is often used, as is psychotherapy and stress management techniques. Drugs used to treat anxiety include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, beta-blockers, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Often, a combination of therapies works best.
What are the types of Anxiety disorders?
There are several major types of anxiety disorders:
1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): People with Generalized Anxiety Disorder feel anxious nearly all of the time, though they may not even know why.
2. Phobias: A phobia is an unrealistic or exaggerated fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that in reality presents little to no danger. Common phobias include fear of animals such as snakes and spiders, fear of flying, and fear of heights.
3. Social Phobia: Social anxiety disorder can be thought of as extreme shyness.
4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): It is characterized by unwanted thoughts or behaviors that seem impossible to stop or control.
5. Separation Anxiety: Separation anxiety is a normal part of child development.
6. Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder: Panic disorder is characterized by repeated, unexpected panic attacks.
Symptoms of Anxiety:
The symptoms can include:
1. Abdominal discomfort.
2. Rapid heartbeat or palpitations.
3. Shortness of breath.
4. Frequent urination
5. Feeling worried or uneasy all the time
6. An inability to concentrate
7. Depersonalisation.
Treatment For Anxiety disorders:
The treatment will depend upon which type of anxiety you are experiencing and how severe it is. Cognitive-behavior therapy is very effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Tranquilisers, such as benzodiazepine tablets, may help to relieve some short-term stress-related anxieties. However, they shouldn't be taken for long periods because of the risk of addiction. For this reason they aren't usually prescribed. Antidepressants can treat certain anxiety disorders such as generalised anxiety disorder, social phobia, OCD, and anxiety associated with depression.
Juliet Cohen writes articles for http://www.health-disease.org/ and http://www.women-health-guide.com/
Should Obesity Be Included As a Risk Factor For Asthma?
It is well known that obesity places you at risk of developing problems from such things as diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease, stroke and arthritis, but it is now being suggested that asthma should also be added to this list.
As the problem of obesity has grown alarmingly in recent years, with about 65 percent of the US population now being classed as either overweight or obese, so too has the problem of asthma. Asthma, which results in recurrent wheezing, coughing and hypersensitivity to allergies, affects about 20 million Americans, including a staggering 9 million children.
So could the growing problem of asthma be linked to the rise in obesity?
In a recent study, which looked at the records of more than 330,000 patients in the US, Canada and Europe, it was found that as an individual's body mass index (BMI) passed 25 (the threshold for being overweight) so his or her chances of developing asthma increased by 50 percent. The study also found that as weight continued to increase so too did the risk of developing asthma.
The study also showed that this risk seemed to be equally distributed between both men and women and that there was no foundation for the previously held belief that there might be a connection between obesity and asthma in women but not in men.
Now if you are overweight and are experiencing breathing problems you should not immediately leap to the conclusion that you have asthma. Breathing problems can arise with increasing weight as your lung volume is effectively reduced, your chest wall is restricted or indeed for a variety of other reasons. However, if you are experiencing problems you should of course have these checked out by your doctor and should not be surprised if this does indeed turn out to be asthma.
Asthma is a chronic and incurable, but normally controllable, condition which produces an inflammation and narrowing of the airways leading to and from the lungs. What is not clear at this stage however is whether being overweight can actually cause asthma. Further research will be required but the best guess at the moment is that a substantial proportion of the population is in fact suffering from mild and undiagnosed asthma and that an increase in weight aggravates the condition and turns a mild case of asthma into severe asthma.
One the other side of coin the good news is that losing weigh could potentially reduce the problem significantly.
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Could Your Bath Soap Be Making You Fat?
As our knowledge continues to grow so too do what at first sight appear to ludicrous claims and this one certainly seems to fall into this category. Can anyone honestly believe that the soap we use in the bath, or the shampoo, can actually be adding to the growing problem of obesity? Well, the answer appears to be that it just might be.
One thing we do know is that the body is a complex chemical factory and that good health is largely a result of keeping the chemicals in the body in the correct balance. If we introduce chemicals into our system that balance can quickly be upset and our health can suffer in a variety of different ways. We also know that there are many ways in which chemicals can enter the body, including through our skin which is of course porous. Against this background it would seem quite feasible that chemicals contained in soap could indeed enter the body. So just what are these chemicals and why might they be a problem.
The chemicals in question are known as phthalates and appear in thousands of household products including children's toys, detergents, food packaging, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, such as nail polish, hair sprays, soaps, and shampoos.
These chemicals have been under investigation for some time now and, although the connection is not yet fully understood, it is widely believed that phthalates play a part in producing low sperm counts and low testosterone levels in men. It is also known that men with low testosterone levels are also prone to insulin resistance and to abdominal obesity. The initial conclusion therefore might be that phthalates produce abdominal obesity in men indirectly by lowering testosterone levels.
Now at this stage there is not a great deal of evidence to support this theory, apart from a few studies such as one which showed that men with high levels of phthalates in their urine did indeed display higher than average levels of body fat, and further studies need to be carried out to see whether or not this is actually the case.
So ladies, you appear to be in the clear. Or are you?
As with most things in life this is likely to turn out to be a very complex multi-factor problem with the link between phthalates, testosterone and abdominal obesity being just one facet. As research continues it is highly likely that phthalates will be found to produce a whole host of other reactions including almost certainly an effect upon the thyroid gland which could also cause obesity, this time in both men and women.
Before you stop washing though and spark another epidemic, remember that it is very early days in this investigation and, even if the connection is proved, it is unlikely that phthalates will account for anything other than a tiny part of the obesity equation.
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