Prevention and daily care of anxiety disorders

Mondo Psychological Updated on 2024-01-28

Anxiety disorder is a disease characterized by generalized, persistent anxiety or anti-panic anxiety, often accompanied by autonomic dysfunction, muscle tension and restlessness, which is clinically divided into panic disorder and generalized anxiety. The disease has a certain personality basis, and the onset is often affected by psychosocial (environmental) factors, and the patient feels distressed and powerless to the symptoms present, and the course of the disease is often prolonged. Daily health care for patients with various types of anxiety disorders can improve the efficacy of drugs and promote the disease.

First of all, do a good job in psychological counseling and supportive psychological work, so as to promote patients' trust in family and friends, and establish confidence in overcoming the disease. In addition, they can cooperate with medical staff to do a good job in science popularization and education, and can adopt the methods of collective lectures, conversations, and discussions, so that patients can understand their condition, which is helpful to accept hints, encouragement, and support, overcome negative emotions and loneliness, and cultivate psychological ability to adapt to social life. Encourage the patient to recall or describe the feelings of anxiety, discuss with the patient how to deal with anxiety according to the patient's anxiety feelings, talk in a kind manner, ask concise and concise questions, and give concise and clear instructions to show understanding and sympathy for the patient. Use supportive language to help patients through crises and allow them to adapt and face difficulties effectively. Encourage patients to express anxiety, agitation, and anger in a manageable and acceptable manner. Encourage patients to participate in work-recreational therapy activities and various sports activities, labor exercise, so as to achieve the combination of work and recreation, and distract attention.

According to the characteristics of the patient, cultivate the ability to enhance adaptation in practice, cultivate a good personality and strong will, so as to enhance the ability to cope with stress and reduce the degree of fear. Gradually alleviate and eliminate the symptoms of depression and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Patients should be cared for, respected, sympathetic, and understood, and their trust should be earned, and a trusting and coordinated relationship should be established and patients should be encouraged to express their feelings in an appropriate way to reduce the psychological burden.

When people have an episode of anxiety, distraction may be used to relieve symptoms. For patients with severe anxiety symptoms, family members and friends should accompany them in time, give them a sense of security, listen to their complaints, and let them have an appropriate amount of emotional catharsis, so as to prevent bad emotions from affecting their physical health. If necessary, give anti-anxiety medications as prescribed to help people manage anxiety symptoms. When the patient is in pain due to physical discomfort, accompany and help the patient to reduce or relieve the discomfort, and cooperate with the patient to master the methods of coping with anxiety, such as relaxation**, Morita**, muscle relaxation techniques, deep breathing exercises, etc.

In terms of self-prevention of the disease, we should first fully realize that anxiety disorder is not an organic disease and has no direct threat to human life, so the patient should not have any mental pressure and psychological burden.

Under the guidance of a doctor, learn to regulate emotions and self-control, such as psychological relaxation, divert attention, and eliminate distracting thoughts, so as to achieve the state of going with the flow and dealing with it calmly.

Learn how to correctly deal with various emergencies and enhance psychological defense. Cultivate a wide range of interests and hobbies to make you feel open-minded and cheerful.

According to statistics, 1 3 patients have a disease course of six months to 2 years, and 2 3 patients have more than 2 years. About 41% of patients recover or improve, and most anxiety disorders have a good prognosis, and a few have a poor prognosis. According to follow-up observation, it was found that female, young, short-duration of disease, and good pre-illness personality had a good prognosis, while those with a poor prognosis were not. It has been noted that the prognosis is poor if there is syncope, agitation, depersonalization, hysterical personality traits, and suicidal thoughts.

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