How to get rid of anxiety and fear. Distract yourself from any source of anxiety. Vegetative and somatic disorders

Hello! My name is Vyacheslav, I am 21 years old. I live with my father. Mother lives separately with another person after her divorce from her father about seven years ago, maybe more. Graduated from school, college. Now I don't work, I don't study. Because of my illness. I suffer from almost incessant feelings of anxiety, severe panic attacks. I also have heart arrhythmia, happened about four years ago.

I don't remember how long ago it started, it seems to have been with me all my life. Symptoms of panic attacks are as follows: it becomes suddenly stuffy, sweaty palms, dizzy, hands shaking, shortness of breath, difficult to move, slurred speech. It happens every time I go outside. Sometimes even if I just need to call someone. A few years ago, I began to go out less and less because of this. Then it almost completely stopped. Fear of going out accompanies constantly and forces you to stay at home.

Recently I went to a psychotherapist, he prescribed me a mild tranquilizer - the drug Adaptol tablets. Drink said one tablet three times a day. I drink Adaptol two or three tablets two or three times a day, a smaller amount does not help. It is better with pills, but even with them, sometimes the attacks are slightly reminiscent of themselves. I actually have a few questions for you.

1. How long can tranquilizers be taken? After all, I'm afraid that if I stop drinking them, the symptoms will return.

2. How harmful are they and what do they affect?

3. Do they cure or relieve symptoms temporarily?

4. Are there any techniques, independent psychological studies, against feelings of anxiety and seizures?

I would be very grateful if you answer.

Answer to the question:

How to relieve anxiety.

Very well, quickly and reliably, you can remove the feeling of anxiety and panic with the help of tranquilizers. But at the same time, one should not forget that anxiety goes away only at the time of taking the drug. Therefore, it is imperative to come to terms with your fears in order to successfully treat this condition.

1. The instructions for tranquilizers say that you can take them for 2-6 weeks, then gradually reduce the dose to get away from them. The drug adaptol is the weakest drug from the group of tranquilizers. It cannot cause drug dependence. But still, you are right to be afraid. If it helps you, then the abolition of adaptol will lead to the return of VVD symptoms. But it happens that with VVD people drink tranquilizers for years in a small constant dose to stabilize the condition, and drug dependence does not occur.

2. Tranquilizers are the most effective, strong and fast acting among psychotropic drugs. With prolonged use, they can cause the formation of drug dependence. They also cause drowsiness and decreased alertness. This is all side effect. The drug Adaptol does not cause drowsiness, but can cause symptoms of indigestion (heartburn). How exactly tranquilizers act in the body, no one knows, but this is a much lesser evil than antidepressants. Compared to antidepressants, their harm is negligible.

3. Tranquilizers remove the feeling of fear of death and panic, which just trigger a panic attack. This helps to stop the attack. They do not cure, but allow the body to return to its normal state and remember it. The main principle in the treatment of tranquilizers is this: you need to choose a drug and a dose that would completely remove fear, panic and panic attacks.

I think that in your particular case, adaptol does not provide the necessary therapeutic effect, the use of which is indicated for very weak and minor disorders of the nervous system. You need a stronger drug, based on the symptoms that you Vyacheslav described. Tell your doctor about this and pick up a drug a little stronger, which will enable the body to normalize the condition.

4. There are a huge number of methods and psychological trainings: auto-training, meditation, prayers, a positive attitude, a contrast shower, dousing with cold water, etc. But, firstly, they need to be performed against the background of a stabilized mental state, and secondly, they also do not help radically, but only provide temporary relief. Understand that no one will do this for you, here you need to work on your own. The most important treatment is to explain to your brain and subconscious mind the meaninglessness of fear and panic. This can be done only by enduring one attack without fear for life and without panic, personal and others, and without any medication. Completely independently controlling what is happening and realizing that it cannot kill you. After all, the body is very healthy in such years, and arrhythmia and everything else, gives a functional disorder of the nervous system. And such a small victory will lead to success. In this case, you can not cause a feeling of pity for yourself.

Thanks

Anxiety Disorders and Panic: Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Therapy

Anxiety disorders - what is it?

What are the causes of anxiety disorders?

If we take into account the fact that the modern population is simply forced to lead an active lifestyle, it turns out that this condition can develop in each of us. Among the factors that can provoke the development of this type of disorder, one can also include psychological trauma resulting from a severe illness.

How can we distinguish between “normal” anxiety, which enables us to survive in a dangerous situation, and pathological anxiety, which is the result of an anxiety disorder?

2. "Normal" anxiety is always related to the real situation. It does not tend to disrupt human performance. As soon as the threat disappears, the person’s anxiety immediately disappears.

Anxiety disorders - what are their signs and symptoms?

• Fear of situations that do not actually exist, but the person himself believes that this can happen to him
• Frequent mood swings, irritability, tearfulness
• Fussiness, shyness
• Wet palms, hot flashes, sweating
• Excessive fatigue
• impatience
• Feeling short of oxygen, inability to take a deep breath, or a sudden need to take a deep breath
• Insomnia, sleep disturbances, nightmares
• Memory impairment, impaired concentration, decreased mental abilities
• Feeling of a lump in the throat, difficulty swallowing
• A feeling of constant tension that makes it impossible to relax
• Dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations
• Pain in the back, waist and neck, a feeling of muscle tension
• Pain in the chest, around the navel, in the epigastric region, nausea, diarrhea

It is important to note the fact that all the symptoms that were presented to the attention of readers a little higher very often resemble signs of other pathologies. As a result, patients turn for help to a huge number of specialists, but not to a neurologist.

Quite often, such patients also have phobias - fear of certain objects or situations. The most common phobias are considered to be:

1. Nosophobia- fear of a certain illness or fear of getting sick in general ( for example, carcinophobia - the fear of getting cancer).

2. Agoraphobia- fear of finding yourself in a crowd of people or in an excessively large open space, fear of being unable to get out of this space or crowd.

3. social phobia- fear of eating in public places, fear of being in the company of strangers, fear of speaking in front of an audience, and so on.

4. Claustrophobia- Fear of being in confined spaces. In this case, a person may be afraid to remain both in a locked room, and in transport, in an elevator, and so on.

5. Fear in front of insects, heights, snakes and the like.

It is worth noting that normal fear differs from pathological fear, first of all, by its paralyzing effect. It occurs for no reason, while completely changing human behavior.
Another sign of anxiety disorder is considered to be obsessive-compulsive syndrome, which is constantly emerging ideas and thoughts that provoke a person to some of the same actions. So, for example, people who constantly think about germs are forced to wash their hands thoroughly with soap almost every five minutes.
Psychiatric disorder is one of the anxiety disorders characterized by sudden, recurring panic attacks that occur without any reason. During such an attack, a person has a rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, as well as a fear of death.

Features of anxiety disorders in children

Diagnosis of anxiety disorders and panic attacks

Anxiety Therapy

• Antipsychotics (Tiapride, Sonapax and others) is often prescribed to patients in order to relieve them of excessive feelings of anxiety. Against the background of the use of these medications, such side effects as: obesity, lowering blood pressure, lack of sexual desire can let you know about yourself.
• Benzodiazepines (Clonazepam, Diazepam, Alprazolam ) make it possible to forget about the feeling of anxiety in a fairly short period of time. With all this, they can also cause the development of some side effects such as impaired coordination of movement, decreased attention, addiction, drowsiness. The course of therapy with these medications should not exceed four weeks.

Panic attack (PA) is a factor in an inexplicable and rather disturbing and painful panic attack for the patient, may be accompanied by fear and somatic symptoms.

Domestic doctors for a long period of time used for him the term " vegetovascular dystonia"("VSD"), "sympathoadrenal crisis", "cardioneurosis", "vegetative crisis", distorting all ideas about disorders of the nervous system, depending on the main symptom. As you know, the meanings of the terms "panic attack" and "panic disorder" were introduced into the classification of diseases and recognized in the world.

panic disorder- one of the sides of anxiety, the main symptom of which is panic attacks and psychovegetative paroxysms, as well as anxiety. Biological mechanisms play a significant role in the development of these disorders.

panic attacks are very common and happen frequently. At any given time, they can reach several million people. Such a disease usually begins to develop between the ages of 27 and 33, and occurs evenly in both men and women. But according to some scientists, women may be more susceptible to this disease, and this may be due to biological factors that have not yet been studied.

Causes of panic attacks

If you find yourself in one of the following situations, you may experience certain panic symptoms. But these symptoms can also come on spontaneously.

• Strong emotions or stressful situations
• Conflicts with other people
• Loud sound, bright light
• large crowd of people
• Taking hormones (birth control pills)
• Pregnancy
• Abortion
• Prolonged exposure to the sun
• Alcohol intake, smoking
• Tiring physical work

Such attacks can occur from one to several times a week, or it may even happen that the body does not succumb to such manifestations. Often, after a panic attack, a person experiences relief and drowsiness.

It is important to remember that panic attacks cause severe stress for a person and cause a feeling of fear, but they do not pose a threat to life. Although in general this can drastically reduce the social adaptation of the patient.

It has been noticed that all patients who experience panic attacks most often turn to cardiologists, as they suspect they have heart disease. If you still show signs of panic, then you should consult a neurologist.

Symptoms of panic attacks

A panic attack is characterized by the presence of fear and anxiety in the human body, in combination with four or more symptoms from the list below:

1. Palpitations, rapid pulse
2. sweating
3. Chills, tremors, feeling of internal trembling
4. Feeling short of breath, shortness of breath
5. Choking or difficulty breathing
6. Pain or discomfort in the left side of the chest
7. Nausea or abdominal discomfort
8. Feeling dizzy, unsteady, light-headed, or light-headed
9. Feeling of derealization, depersonalization
10. Fear of going crazy or doing something out of control
11. Fear of death
12. Feeling of numbness or tingling (paresthesia) in the limbs
13. Insomnia
14. Confusion of thoughts (decrease in arbitrariness of thinking)

To the same symptoms, we can include: abdominal pain, frequent urination, stool disorder, sensation of a lump in the throat, gait disturbance, cramps in the hands, motor function disorder, impaired vision or hearing, leg cramps.

All these symptoms are presented as a source of stress, and they also carry subsequent waves of panic attacks. When adrenaline is released, it quickly reacts and at the same time the ability of the adrenal glands to produce adrenaline decreases, after which the panic attack subsides.

Criteria for diagnosing panic attacks

Panic attacks are considered and considered a separate disease, but they are diagnosed as part of other anxiety disorders:

• At least four of the above symptoms are observed during an attack;
• The attack occurs unexpectedly and is not provoked by increased attention to the patient from others;
• Four attacks within a month;
• At least one attack, within a month after which there is a fear of a new attack.

For a reliable diagnosis, it is necessary that

• several severe attacks of autonomic anxiety occurred over a period of about 1 month under circumstances not related to an objective threat;
• attacks should not be limited to known or predictable situations;
• between attacks, the state should be relatively free of anxiety symptoms (although anticipatory anxiety is common).

Clinical picture

The intensity of the main criterion for a panic attack (anxiety attacks) can vary widely: from a pronounced state of panic to a feeling of internal tension. In the latter case, when the vegetative (somatic) component comes to the fore, they speak of “non-insurance” PA or “panic without panic”. Attacks depleted of emotional manifestations are more common in therapeutic and neurological practice. Also, as the disease progresses, the level of fear in attacks decreases.

Panic attacks can last from a few minutes to a couple of hours, and also recur as often as a couple of times a day or once every few weeks. Many patients talk about the spontaneous manifestation of such an attack, not provoked by anything. But if you look deeper, you can determine that everything has its reasons and grounds, and there is a factor of influence for any attack. One of the situations may be an unpleasant atmosphere in public transport, a rumble in a confined space, lack of assembly among a large mass of people, etc.

A person who first encounters this condition is very frightened, begins to think about some serious disease of the heart, endocrine or nervous systems, gastrointestinal tract, can call an ambulance. He begins to go to the doctors, trying to find the causes of "attacks". The patient's interpretation of a panic attack as a manifestation of some somatic disease leads to frequent visits to the doctor, multiple consultations with specialists in various fields (cardiologists, neuropathologists, endocrinologists, gastroenterologists, therapists), unjustified diagnostic studies, and gives the patient the impression of complexity and uniqueness. his illness. The patient's misconceptions about the essence of the disease lead to the appearance of hypochondriacal symptoms that contribute to the aggravation of the course of the disease.

Doctors-internists, as a rule, do not find anything serious. At best, they recommend visiting a psychotherapist, and at worst, they treat non-existent diseases or shrug their shoulders and give “banal” recommendations: relax more, play sports, not be nervous, drink vitamins, valerian or novopassit. But, unfortunately, the matter is not limited to attacks alone ... The first attacks leave an indelible mark on the patient's memory. This leads to the emergence of an anxiety syndrome of "waiting" for an attack, which, in turn, reinforces the recurrence of attacks. The repetition of attacks in similar situations (transport, being in a crowd, etc.) contributes to the formation of restrictive behavior, that is, the avoidance of potentially dangerous ones for development PA, places and situations. Anxiety about the possible development of an attack in a certain place (situation) and avoidance of this place (situation) is defined by the term "agoraphobia", since today in medical practice this concept includes not only the fear of open spaces, but also the fear of similar situations. The increase in agoraphobic symptoms leads to social maladaptation of the patient. Due to fear, patients may be unable to leave the house or remain alone, condemn themselves to house arrest, become a burden on loved ones. The presence of agoraphobia in panic disorder indicates a more severe disease, entails a worse prognosis and requires special treatment tactics. Reactive depression can also join, which also “aggravates” the course of the disease, especially if the patient cannot understand what exactly is happening to him for a long time, does not find help, support, and does not receive relief.

Treatment of panic attacks (panic disorders).

Most often, panic attacks occur in the age group of 20-40 years. These are young and active people who are forced to limit themselves a lot due to illness. Recurring panic attacks impose new restrictions, as a person begins to seek to avoid situations and those places where he was caught by an attack. In advanced cases, this can lead to social maladjustment. That is why, the treatment of panic disorders must begin in the early stages of the manifestation of the disease.

For the treatment of panic attacks, modern pharmacology offers a fairly large number of drugs. With the right dosages, these drugs can reduce the frequency of attacks, but all medications have side effects, and therefore their role in the treatment of panic attacks cannot be overestimated.

Panic attacks should be treated on an individual basis. In our clinic, the treatment of patients with panic disorders is carried out comprehensively, taking into account individual characteristics. The treatment takes place on an outpatient basis, which allows the patient not to disturb the usual rhythm of life. It is important to remember that the treatment of panic attacks requires some effort not only from the doctor, but also from the patient. With this approach, it is possible to completely get rid of these problems caused by panic disorders.

Typical complaints of patients with panic attacks

• I often get dizzy when walking down the street and lack of breath, as a result, panic sets in and that I am about to fall. Even being at home alone, suddenly, panic began;
• panic for no reason. Fear of something. Sometimes it’s even scary to turn my head, it seems that as soon as I do it, I’ll just fall. At these moments, even just to get up from a chair or walk, you have to make an incredible effort of will, keep yourself in suspense;
• there were seizures at the beginning of a coma in the throat, then a heartbeat, for any arrival of an ambulance, everyone spoke well and gave sedatives! About two weeks ago there was an attack in the subway - sharp dizziness and palpitations;
• constant feeling of fear. Even for little things. It appeared after frequent stress. I try to keep calm, relax, but it only helps for a while;
• during attacks, there is a squeeze in the temples, reduction of the cheekbones and chin, nausea, fear, a feeling of heat, legs are cottony. Which ultimately ends in a splash (tears).

Many of us often experience an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety, which is very difficult to control and sometimes we cannot even explain what caused this unpleasant phenomenon. Anxiety, fear and other feelings of anxiety are usually accompanied by other problems. Along with anxiety, insomnia may appear. This suggests that the nervous system is out of order and is in a stressful state. Therefore, first of all, you need to adjust the nervous system in order to get rid of constant anxiety.

Stop constantly remembering the past and thinking about the future

The past stays in the past, so put past failures out of your mind. No need to grieve in vain, it is better to learn from the experience and continue to move on. Get rid of the burden that is holding you back.

Many people do not stop looking back and trying to look and predict the future. We do not know what will happen tomorrow, then we should not guess: "What will happen if ...". Stop constantly worrying about tomorrow, start living and enjoying today.

A good cure for inner anxiety is to find something to do

The causes of feelings of fear and anxiety are sometimes incomprehensible to a person. Therefore, in order to get rid of feelings of anxiety, you need to find a useful activity. A busy person doesn't have time to worry. Since our brain does not allow us to think about two things at the same time, then one thought has to crowd out the other.

The best way to overcome inner anxiety is to expand the scope of your own interests. You will be doing interesting things for you that will help you stay afloat. It can be any hobby, like sports, and creativity, go in for tourism, embroidery, work.

When should you see a doctor?

It is common for everyone to experience feelings of anxiety or fear of anxiety from time to time. If it becomes difficult for you to overcome the state of anxiety on your own, it does not leave you for a long time, interferes with work, then you need to see a doctor. Three reasons to see a doctor:

• When, in addition to constant anxiety, you are short of breath, chest pain and dizziness.
• During panic attacks, you have periods of unexplained intense fear.
• To get rid of feelings of anxiety, you begin to avoid people or situations.

Breathing exercises help to get rid of the constant feeling of anxiety.

People who often experience anxiety are recommended to practice yoga. This helps not only to relax the body, but also get rid of negative emotions. With the help of these exercises, the muscles of the chest and abdomen are strengthened and relaxed, and the flow of vital energy is restored.

1. To do the exercise correctly, you first need to kneel, put one hand on your stomach, and the other on your thigh. It is important here to feel how your abdominal wall rises when you inhale and retracts when you exhale.
2. The palms should be placed on the chest, while inhaling - raise the chest, while exhaling - lower the chest, pressing on it with your hands.
3. For this exercise, you need to tighten your abdominal muscles. While inhaling - raise your shoulders with the upper part of the chest, while exhaling - lower your shoulders, while relaxing the abdominal muscles.

Feelings of anxiety and fear during pregnancy

During pregnancy, almost every woman will be accompanied by such a feeling as fear. Feelings of anxiety may arise with the thought that a new life is growing within you, and you have a huge responsibility for it. These feelings will visit you day after day, but you will not always be able to explain what they are caused by. In order to overcome these emotions, you first need to figure out what causes them.

The first and most important reason is hormonal changes in a woman's body. Each woman will react differently to these changes. One becomes calm, balanced, the other becomes whiny and irritable.

The initial disturbing background also plays an important role. It is influenced by the experience of a previous pregnancy, the state of health of the mother, various psychological factors, such as attitudes in the family, the desirability of this pregnancy.

Often, fears are associated with medical information that falls on the expectant mother. Stories of familiar women about their pregnancy and their feelings. All this leads a pregnant woman into confusion, who does not know who to believe. The main advice in this case is to remember that all women are different and each pregnancy is individual and unique.

Book by Dmitry Kovpak How to get rid of anxiety and fear. Practical guide for a psychotherapist " (brief review of the book)

I would like to draw your attention to the book of the famous psychotherapist Dmitry Kovpak How to get rid of anxiety and fear. A practical guide for a psychotherapist. This book describes well-known fears, anxieties, anxieties that are fraught with consequences. This book will be a good help to people who want to solve this problem.

Video on how to cope with fear and not succumb to panic at a decisive moment.

Every person since childhood at least once experienced panic and fear for no reason. A strong excitement that has come out of nowhere, a feeling of overwhelming panic cannot be forgotten, it accompanies a person everywhere. People suffering from phobias, bouts of unreasonable fear are well aware of the unpleasant sensations of fainting, trembling of the limbs, the appearance of deafness and "goosebumps" before the eyes, rapid pulse, sudden headache, weakness throughout the body, and nausea.

The reason for this state is easily explained - an unfamiliar environment, new people, anxiety before a speech, exams or an unpleasant serious conversation, fear in the office of a doctor or boss, anxiety and worries about one's life and the lives of loved ones. Causal anxieties and fears are treatable and alleviated by withdrawing from the situation or ending the action that causes discomfort.

Much more difficult is the situation when an anxious feeling of panic and fear arises for no reason. Anxiety is a constant, restless, growing feeling of inexplicable fear that occurs in the absence of danger and threat to human life. Psychologists distinguish 6 types of anxiety disorders:

1. Anxiety attacks. They appear when a person has to go through the same exciting episode or an unpleasant event that has already happened in his life and its outcome is unknown.
2. generalized disorder. A person with this disorder constantly feels that something is about to happen or something is about to happen.
3. Phobias. This is the fear of non-existent objects (monsters, ghosts), the experience of a situation or action (height-flying, water-swimming) that does not actually pose a danger.
4. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. These are obsessive thoughts that an action forgotten by a person can harm someone, endless double-checking of these actions (faucet not closed, iron not turned off), many times repeated actions (washing hands, cleaning).
5. social disorder. Manifested as a very strong shyness (stage fright, crowds).
6. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Constant fear that the events after which the injuries were received or there was a threat to life will happen again.

Interesting! A person cannot name a single reason for his anxiety, but he can explain how he is overcome by a feeling of panic - the imagination gives out a variety of terrible pictures from everything that a person has seen, knows or read.

Panic attacks can be felt physically. A sudden attack of deep anxiety is accompanied by a decrease, vasoconstriction, numbness of the arms and legs, a feeling of unreality of what is happening, confused thoughts, a desire to run away and hide.

There are three distinct types of panic:

• Spontaneous - occurs unexpectedly, without causes and circumstances.
• Situational - appears when a person expects an unpleasant situation or some kind of difficult problem.
• Conditionally situational - manifested as a result of the use of a chemical substance (alcohol, tobacco, drugs).

Sometimes there is no apparent reason. Seizures occur on their own. Anxiety and fear haunt a person, but at these moments of life nothing threatens him, there are no difficult physical and psychological situations. Attacks of anxiety and fear are growing, preventing a person from living, working, communicating and dreaming normally.

The main symptoms of seizures

The constant fear that an anxiety attack will start at the most unexpected moment and in any crowded place (on a bus, in a cafe, in a park, at a workplace) only reinforces a person’s consciousness already destroyed by anxiety.

Physiological changes in a panic attack that warn of an imminent attack:

• cardiopalmus;
• a feeling of anxiety in the thoracic region (bursting in the chest, incomprehensible pain, "lump in the throat");
• drops and jumps in blood pressure;
• development ;
• lack of air;
• fear of imminent death;
• feeling hot or cold, nausea, vomiting, dizziness;
• temporary lack of sharp vision or hearing, impaired coordination;
• loss of consciousness;
• uncontrolled urination.

All this can cause irreparable harm to human health.

Important! Physical disorders such as spontaneous vomiting, debilitating migraine, anorexia or bulimia can become chronic. A person with a broken psyche will not be able to live a full life.

hangover anxiety

A hangover is a headache, unbearably dizzy, there is no way to remember yesterday's events, nausea and vomiting, disgust for what was drunk and eaten yesterday. A person is already accustomed to such a state, and it does not cause any concern, but developing gradually, the problem can develop into a serious psychosis. When a person consumes alcohol in large quantities, there is a malfunction in the circulatory system and the brain does not receive enough blood and oxygen, a similar violation occurs in the spinal cord. This is how vegetovascular dystonia appears.

The symptoms of a disturbing hangover are:

• disorientation;
• memory lapses - a person cannot remember where he is and in what year he lives;
• hallucinations - not understanding whether it is a dream or reality;
• rapid pulse, dizziness;
• sense of anxiety.

In heavily drunken people, in addition to the main symptoms, there is aggression, persecution mania - all this gradually begins to take on a more complex form: delirium tremens and manic-depressive psychosis begin. Chemicals have a destructive effect on the nervous system and brain, pain is so unpleasant that a person thinks about suicide. According to the severity of an anxious hangover, drug treatment is indicated.

anxiety neurosis

Physical and psychological overwork, mild or acute stressful situations are the causes of anxiety neurosis in a person. This disorder often develops into a more complex form of depression or even into a phobia. Therefore, treatment of anxiety neurosis should be started as early as possible.

More women suffer from this disorder, as their hormonal levels are more vulnerable. Symptoms of neurosis:

• sense of anxiety;
• heartbeat;
• dizziness;
• pain in various organs.

Important! Anxiety neurosis affects young people with an unstable psyche, with problems in the endocrine system, women during menopause and hormonal failure, as well as people whose relatives suffered from neurosis or depression.

In the acute period of neurosis, a person experiences a feeling of fear, turning into a panic attack, which can last up to 20 minutes. There is shortness of breath, lack of air, trembling, disorientation, dizziness, fainting. The treatment of anxiety neurosis is to take hormonal drugs.

Depression

A mental disorder in which a person cannot enjoy life, enjoy communication with loved ones, does not want to live, is called depression and can last up to 8 months. Many people are at risk of acquiring this disorder if they have:

• unpleasant events - loss of loved ones, divorce, problems at work, absence of friends and family, financial problems, ill health or stress;
• psychological trauma;
• relatives suffering from depression;
• injuries received in childhood;
• self-prescribed medications taken;
• drug use (alcohol and amphetamines);
• a head injury in the past;
• various episodes of depression;
• chronic conditions (diabetes, chronic lung disease and cardiovascular disease).

Important! If a person has symptoms such as lack of mood, depression, apathy, independent of circumstances, lack of interest in any activity, a pronounced lack of strength and desire, fatigue, then the diagnosis is obvious.

A person suffering from a depressive disorder is pessimistic, aggressive, anxious, constantly feeling guilty, unable to concentrate, has impaired appetite, insomnia, and thoughts of suicide.

Prolonged failure to detect depression can lead a person to use alcohol or other substances, which will significantly affect his health, life and the lives of his loved ones.

Such different phobias

A person suffering from anxiety disorders, experiencing anxiety, is on the verge of a transition to a more serious neurotic and mental illness. If fear is a fear of something real (animals, events, people, circumstances, objects), then a phobia is a disease of a sick imagination when fear and its consequences are invented. A person suffering from a phobia constantly sees objects or waits for situations that are unpleasant and frightening to him, which explains the attacks of causeless fear. Having thought up and twisted danger and threat in his mind, a person begins to experience a feeling of severe anxiety, panic begins, asthma attacks, hands sweat, legs become wadded, fainting, loss of consciousness.

The types of phobias are very different and are classified according to the expression of fear:

• social phobia - fear of being the center of attention;
• Agoraphobia is the fear of being helpless.

Phobias related to objects, objects or actions:

• animals or insects - fear of dogs, spiders, flies;
• situations - fear of being alone with yourself, with foreigners;
• natural forces - fear of water, light, mountains, fire;
• health - fear of doctors, blood, microorganisms;
• states and actions - fear of talking, walking, flying;
• objects - fear of computers, glass, wood.

Attacks of anxiety and anxiety in a person can be caused by an exemplary situation seen in the cinema or in the theater, from which he once in reality received a mental trauma. Often there are attacks of unreasonable fear due to the play of imagination, which gave out terrible pictures of the fears and phobias of a person, causing a panic attack.

Watch this video with a useful exercise "How to get rid of fear and anxiety":

Diagnosis established

A person lives in a constant restless state, which is aggravated by causeless fear, and anxiety attacks become frequent and long, he is diagnosed with "". Such a diagnosis is indicated by the presence of at least four recurring symptoms:

• rapid pulse;
• hot rapid breathing;
• asthma attacks;
• stomach ache;
• feeling of "not your body";
• fear of death;
• fear of going crazy
• chills or sweating;
• pain in the chest;
• fainting.

Self help and medical help

Specialists in the field of psychology (for example, psychologist Nikita Valerievich Baturin) will help to find out in a timely manner the causes of anxiety, which is why panic attacks occur, and also find out how to treat a particular phobia and get rid of bouts of causeless fear.

Different types of therapy that a specialist conducts can be prescribed:

• body-oriented psychotherapy;
• psychoanalysis;
• neurolinguistic programming;
• systemic family psychotherapy;

In addition to medication, you can try to prevent or alleviate anxiety on your own. It could be:

• - breathe with your stomach or inflate a balloon;
• taking a contrast shower;
• distracting count of objects in the room or outside the window;
• taking herbal tinctures;
• playing sports or hobbies;
• walks in the open air.

Relatives, family, and friends of the person with the disorder can be of great help in identifying the problem. By talking to a person, you can learn much faster and more about his illness, he himself may never tell about his fears and anxieties.

Supporting relatives and friends with a kind word and deed, following simple rules during periods of panic attacks and anxiety, regular visits to specialists and the systematic implementation of their recommendations - all this contributes to the speedy relief of existing disorders and complete release from them.