Anxiety & Panic Disorder
Most commonly prevalent, anxiety disorders affect 4 to 8 percent of population worldwide. This clearly means that you are not alone. Identifying them early and getting them treated always helps for a better quality of life. Commonly people suffering from anxiety disorders are prone to addictions as they find temporary relief in their symptoms by getting high.
Know the different types of anxiety disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Specific phobia like fear of heights (Acrophobia), fear of closed spaces (Claustrophobia) fear of or hospitals (Tomophobia).
Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) – Inability to interact comfortably in social situations, public spaces.
Panic disorder – the most common form of anxiety disorder where a patient gets episodes of anxiety known as panic episodes. Annually about 40% of panic disorder patients end up in Cardiac facility without understanding that their symptoms are arising out of mental illness and not a cardiac one. A panic episode is a sudden attack of anxiety lasting for few seconds to minutes with symptoms like:
- sweating
- abnormal breathing
- accelerated heartbeat
- trembling
- hot flushes or chills
- a choking sensation
- chest pains or tightness
- butterflies in the stomach
- pins and needles
- dry mouth
- confusion and disorientation
- nausea
- dizziness
- headache
Agoraphobia – a condition where social anxiety is relieved if a known person accompanies in a public or unknown place.
Separation anxiety disorder – is a specific disturbance mainly seen in children and many times in grownups undergoing regression. This happens usually when they have to separate from is an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (e.g., a parent, caregiver, significant other or siblings).
Selective mutism – a disorder usually found in children between 3 to 6 years of age where in due to anxiety, phobia or panic they stop communication completely as if gone mute.
Anxiety Treatment in Ahmedabad
At Samvedana Hospital, state-of-the-art treatment that is provided by best anxiety doctor in Ahmedabad and has helped many people with generalized anxiety disorder treatment, social anxiety disorder treatment or panic attack treatment.