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An anxiety disorder is a violation of mental harmony that, unlike ordinary short-term anxiety, lasts at least 6 months and fills a person's life with fear, uncertainty, and internal tension.
Over time, anxiety becomes fixed and turns into a personality trait - anxiety, which is a key factor in chronic distress and indicates the depletion of a person's adaptive reserves.
Intrapersonal conflicts
Neurotization
Development of depression
Psychosomatic diseases
Depletion of the nervous system
Karen Horney: "Excessive anxiety is a basic feeling that underlies all neuroses"
Irwin Yalom: "Fear and anxiety, as constant companions of psychological trauma, have a devastating effect on the psyche"
It is characterized by sudden attacks of terror with physical manifestations:
heart palpitations
trembling, sweating
dizziness, nausea
chest pain, feeling of suffocation
Persistent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualistic actions (compulsions), for example:
fear of infection - constant hand washing
obsessive checking, counting, organizing
It develops after severe trauma or violence:
re-experiencing the trauma
nightmares
emotional "callousness", aggressiveness
loss of interest in life
Irrational fear of being judged or humiliated in social situations:
excessive excitement before events
Physical symptoms: sweating, trembling, nausea
prolonged self-recrimination after communication
Strong fear of certain objects or situations:
height
confined spaces
flights, water
animals, injections, blood
Constant unreasonable anxiety:
Anxious thoughts about health, finances, family
emotional tension, anticipation of a catastrophe
Physical symptoms: muscle stiffness, shortness of breath, headache, tremors
Chronic anxiety is a key pathogenetic factor in psychosomatic diseases
Often accompanied by or developing into depression
Oncologists note high level of anxiety in women with breast cancer
A study from Norway (University of Bergen, 62 thousand participants): a statistically significant relationship between chronic anxiety and the development of precancerous conditions was found
Our center provides comprehensive treatment of anxiety, often in combination with neurosis and depression.
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Two clinical psychologists from the United States, Stephen Gold and Michael Quiñones,...
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