Understanding comorbid anxiety disorder

The common symptom of depression is anxiety. Depression always starts with anxiety. The common symptoms of depressions are somatic anxiety, psychic activity and worry. People having characters of hypersomnia, hyperphagia, reverse dirunal variation, significant anxiety and extreme reaction anxiety. Extreme reaction sensitivity is the most common symptom of depression.The psychiatric symptoms of comorbid anxiety disorder is quite common in most of the adults. The presence of Major depressive disorder MDD and comorbid anxiety disorder is as high as 60 percent. Comorbidity comes with depressive and anxiety disorders. Severe comorbidity results in extreme phychiatric outcomes. The severity acts as barriers to treatment that increases resistance to treatment, risk of commiting suicide, increased chance of recurrence and increase in utilization of medical resources.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder Suicide

Preoccupation with imagined defect in one’s appearance is known as BDD or body dysmorphic disorder suicide. People with these symptoms cannot function as a normal being. People have the tendency of perceiving themselves ugly and results in loss of confidence. BDD is the most common and severe psychiatric disorder across the world.This preoccupation makes people spend lot of time in front of the mirror and constant complaining. They constantly change their dresses, groom themselves, comb their hair, apply makeup, camouflaging with clothes, hat or makeup, dieting, skin picking, reassurance seeking and compare themselves with others.

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Bipolar Disorder and Social Anxiety

Many people suffer from anxiety. This anxiety arises due to social disorder. People can have anxiety and social disorder in two different ways. In the first case, the symptom may be bipolar disorder itself. In the second case, people can be affected with bipolar disorder along with anxiety. This symptom is termed as ‘co-morbid’ condition. In the second case, both the conditions are present and the resultant anxiety is not due to the bipolar disorder.

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Anxiety Attacks during Menopause

Anxiety attacks are due to complex combination of negative thoughts and emotions including extreme worry, extreme fear or apprehension and are accompanied with physical sensations such as shortness of breath, palpitations and/or chest pain; it also disturbs mood, behaviour, thoughts and many physiological activities. Anyone of any age can be prone to anxiety attacks and the statistics says that about 19 million Americans are afflicted with this. During menopause, these attacks are experienced by most women as a normal part of living but when these feelings get persistent, interfering with daily life and overwhelming then it can even terrify her. As its becoming common during menopause for women, understanding the causes and factors becomes necessary to deal with anxiety attacks effectively.
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Cure Panic Attacks with Hypnotherapy

Supported by both American as well as British medical association, Hypnotherapy is a treatment for different types of physical and mental conditions. The treatment was being utilized for more than thousand years now until in the mid 20th century when its modernized version was introduced as a medical technique.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Substance Abuse

Substance abuse refers to excessive intake of a substance which is hazardous to health but it becomes a habit for a person to take it regularly which he finds unable to reduce or cease. It can be called as an addiction. Teenagers are the most affected category of substance abuse.
The reasons for the substance abuse differ according to different persons. Many times it is just peer pressure which makes teens start substance abuse. Some times there are emotional reasons such as feeling of being neglected, not being loved and cared, improper parenting, depression, poverty, stress in family etc. because of which person indulge in the substance abuse.
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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder AND Relationships

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a type of personality disorder which is marked by perfectionism, rigidity, control and over concern with work. It is a mental disorder which strives for excessive success. Perfection and only perfection is the goal for the person suffering from this kind of disorder. Failure is treated by that persona s a shattering of earth. They lack flexibility and openness.
The basic symptoms of OCPD are preoccupation with details, lists, organization, rules and schedules, being extremely rigid and inflexible in their beliefs.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that underlines the important role of thinking. It assumes that it is our wrong faulty thought patterns that cause maladjustive behavior and emotional responses. The external things like people, situations and events have nothing to do with it. This therapy focuses on changing thoughts so as to solve the psychological, behavioral and personality problems. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is considered to be the most rapid and effective treatment in terms of
the results. In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the therapist basically focuses on three main areas i.e. Cognitive (i.e. thinking/believing process), behavioral (i.e. what they do) and emotional (i.e. relaxation/peaceful/strength and power strategies).
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Social Phobia Anxiety Disorder

Social Phobia Anxiety Disorder is the world’s third largest physiological problem. It is an anxiety disorder or anxiety attacks featured by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness of a person in daily social situations. A person finds it hard to walk down the road or any street because he’s very self-conscious and feels that people are watching him. People with social anxiety feels that in public places like work, shopping, meeting etc. that everyone is watching them, and judging them. They can’t relax and enjoy themselves in public. They prefer to be alone or with closed ones. Because this type of anxiety is very painful, people having this kind of disorder finds it easy to stay away from these social situations and avoid other people.
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How Can I prevent Panic Attacks?

Anybody can suffer from panic attacks. Panic attacks can come in any size and shape and may last for few seconds to some days. Nothing can be surely said about the cause of these attacks. They may be due to a stressful situation, any traumatic event in the past, an illness or diabetes, pregnancy, imbalance of nutrition etc. But whatever be the cause, one needs to learn how panic attack can be avoided. There is not too much difference between the panic attacks and anxiety attacks. Due to this both anxiety attacks and panic attack are used interchangeably.
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