Posts Tagged ‘treatment’
Generalized Anxiety
The anxiety is an evil of our times, fraught with uncertainty, instability, feelings of vulnerability. A manageable amount of anxiety is inherent to humans and can even be channeled into productive or creative activities.Another thing is when the anxiety pervades the whole self, paralyzing the subject, concerns and apprehensions loading every moment of your life that becomes unbearable and disturbing, becoming the anxiety a chronic and permanent.
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has been recently identified as a psychiatric illness. Patients suffering from this disease from infancy to adulthood. It is diagnosed more frequently in women than in men (60% vs. 55%).More often, panic disorder, simple phobia, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
It is thought that the TAG there is a reduction in sensitivity to adrenergic receptors. There is also an excessive serotonergic activity in brain areas such as the raphe, hypothalamus, basal ganglia and the limbic system.
It has a co-morbidity (disease association) important in mood disorders and other anxiety disorders such as disorder post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder or social phobia .Between 25 and 30% of GAD patients with depression.In turn, between 20 and 30% of patients with depression met diagnostic criteria for GAD.It is closely related to alcohol abuse.
GAD is a chronic disorder, where the severity of symptoms fluctuates over time.Without specific treatment, it is unlikely that the symptoms subside spontaneously.66% of patients diagnosed with GAD can not receive any treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
Stress and Coronary Disease
The current global historical circumstances, show a reality with economic recession, lack of security, increased violence, threats of inflation and unemployment in modern humans produce a lot of uncertainty that pollutes their homes, disrupting family life and thwarts relationships.
All these factors cause chronic stress and expose people to cardiovascular disease.
These indicators of social stimulation, are called psycho-social stressors, as difficult to meet real or imaginary expectations are received from the social environment and require adapting to change.
Social stressors are emotional factors that come to stimuli, such as anger, disgust, distress, fear, and occasional or regular pressures and the lack of fit between reality and expectations produce distress.
The distress is not only a lack of harmony in the relationship that should exist between the brain and cardiovascular system, but is the result of mismatch of psychological balance, which results in a loss of emotional control, identity and self-esteem, sense of isolation, work and family dissatisfaction, depression and anxiety.
External factors that produce psychological stress derived from a family setting and a shaky job status bit demanding and challenging, which added to the personality characteristics of a type “A” create the basis for the development of an irritable and angry nature, typical of persons likely to suffer a heart problem, and can also generate panic attacks and depression.
If all these factors are compounded by poor diet, sedentary lifestyle and an addiction, drink, smoking or drugs, increases considerably the likelihood of vascular decompensation.
For this reason, these tables should be treated in a multidisciplinary, first must be given by cardiologists specific pharmacological treatment, the recommendation of a regular practice of physical exercise and a balanced diet and on the other should be treated the unbalanced psychological techniques based on the neurophysiology and neuroscience, through cognitive therapy, to learn new habits of behavior and the elimination of the ancients.
These techniques come to change behavior patterns that generate resistance to the facts and prevented change of perspective, allowing patients to realize that if they are unable to change the events, all I can do is change the point of view, or seeing things from another angle and widening the field of perception.
These people will have to reorder its priorities and values for certain circumstances, or those that can be changed depending on the stage of life that is passing.
Life imposed on us through the years new challenges, and we must not cling to the past trying to adapt to reality by using old formulas.
To live fully we must accept reality and adapt to new circumstances of life, respecting the limitations. For only when we are aware of the limitations is when we can transcend them.
Psychological Therapy with Friends
Put in very simple language, a therapy is the relationship between two people. One speaks, the other listens.
In the case of a friend, a will “make do” things to the other and tries to free her of her anguish, anxiety, fear or shame. Sometimes the relationship with the psychologist is as close as a friend.
So today on the blog of a woman, do a tour of the other psychologists who are located throughout our life and, in many cases, we are free to open a real therapy: friends.
Human beings always need to trust someone, to rely on another person who is able to offer any advice or express words of comfort in difficult times. Sometimes we just give us a simple touch or a pat on the back to ease our pain. And although perhaps in the fondosepamos, this is not true and final solution to the problem, at least makes us feel much better.
Gardening as Therapy
Caring for our plants and see how they grow and reproduce is often recommended as therapy, because those concerned to follow the progress of your garden are distracted from their daily problems and regain the sense of the need for recreation.
It is an outdoor activity also feeds the sense of wonder and appreciation of the beauty that mother nature gives us. Helps stimulate the senses, especially those who grow flowers in their gardens or balconies, as plants provide us with different flavors and colors.
Therefore it is highly recommended for people suffering from depression, anxiety and loneliness, and returned them the energy that leads to care and breed species by pruning and special care of this new creature.