If you want to know what to do, you must know what anxiety is!
Anxiety disorder is a symptom characterized by extensive and persistent anxiety, irritability or recurrent fear and anxiety, accompanied by autonomic nervous disorder and exercise anxiety. There are two main clinical forms: generalized anxiety and panic disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder, also known as chronic anxiety disorder, is characterized by frequent or persistent anxiety, such as excessive worry, tension and fear. Accompanied by autonomic nervous dysfunction symptoms, such as palpitation, dry mouth, hyperhidrosis, frequent urination, urgency, etc. Exercise symptoms, such as headache, slight tremor, sitting still, etc. Anxiety is more common in women aged 45-55, and patients often come to see a doctor because of emotional tension and anxiety.
Knowing what anxiety disorder is, you should know why you suffer from it.
The occurrence of anxiety disorder is related to biological, genetic, social and psychological factors. Among them, heredity is one of the important susceptible factors. Studies have confirmed that people with anxious personality tendency are more likely to have pathological anxiety under the influence of pressure or bad social environment. The prognosis of this disease is largely related to personal qualities. Short course of disease, mild symptoms, good social adaptability before illness and inconspicuous personality defects are indications of good prognosis, otherwise, the prognosis is poor. Anxiety patients with anxiety, hallucinations, hysteria and suicidal thoughts usually indicate poor prognosis.
After a preliminary understanding of anxiety disorder, how do you know this disease in medicine?
1. Western medicine's understanding of psychological problems of patients with anxiety disorder At present, the first choice for clinical western medicine treatment is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRIs), and its representative drug, Escitalopram, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a first-line drug for anxiety disorder intervention. In addition, benzodiazepines, β -adrenergic receptor blockers and azetidinone are mainly used as anti-anxiety drugs according to clinical needs.
In the clinical treatment of anxiety disorder, we should also pay attention to the adjustment of their emotions, and adopt systematic desensitization treatment, relaxation treatment, hypnosis treatment, psychological suggestion, language guidance and other ways to make patients correctly understand the disease, reduce their psychological burden and enhance their confidence in overcoming the disease.
2. TCM's understanding of psychological problems of patients with anxiety disorder. Physicians in past dynasties believed that anxiety disorder was an emotional disease, and the incidence site involved many viscera, mainly liver, and was closely related to heart, spleen, kidney, gallbladder, triple energizer and other viscera. When the five zang-organs function normally, people's spirit and mood will be normal, and when the five zang-organs function abnormally, people's spirit and mood will be abnormal.
Traditional Chinese medicine can treat this common disease by means of Jianwan powder, Qigong and massage. The combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine can give full play to their respective advantages, reduce the side effects of western medicine and delay the development of the overall condition.
Because of the side effects of western medicine, many anxiety patients are wondering whether they can not drink or drink less western medicine, and then take some other effective ways to help treat this disease. Here's how to help treat anxiety without taking medicine.
1. Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi Method For patients with anxiety disorder, Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi activities such as reading books and listening to music can distract their attention from their own diseases, shift their attention to other places, and eliminate patients' bad emotions and symptoms.
2. enlighten and solve doubts. Enlightening and dispelling doubts, also known as language consultation, can correct patients' wrong cognition, change patients' paranoid views, treat patients' hidden mental trauma, such as despair, inferiority, shame and loneliness, and adjust patients' unbalanced psychological state.
3. Qigong Health Care Fitness Qigong Baduanjin is a kind of exercise with little exercise, which can stabilize mood, eliminate tension and improve sleep. It has dual effects of nourishing body and heart, and is widely used to treat anxiety. The longer you practice, the better the effect.
4. Massage health care method (1) Take Shenmen point and massage by hand. Press 1-3 minutes with your thumb and feel sore. This method is suitable for anxiety and headache caused by anxiety.
Take Laogong point. Press 1-3 minutes with your thumb and feel sore. This method is suitable for patients with anxiety and irritability.
Take the cardiac reflex area of the hand (located between the fifth metacarpal bone of the left palm and near the metacarpal bone). Press and knead with your thumb for 3-4 minutes, preferably soaking in heat. This method is suitable for symptoms such as chest tightness and palpitation caused by anxiety.
Take the reflection area of celiac plexus of the hand (located between the third metacarpal bone and the fourth metacarpal bone of both hands). Push it with your thumb for 3-5 minutes, and it is advisable to soak it in heat. This method is suitable for people who are anxious and irritable.
(2) Foot massage at Zhao Hai point. Press the thumb for 1-3 minutes, and feel local swelling and pain. This point is suitable for removing irritability, calming the nerves and relieving anxiety.
Take Taichong point. Press 1-3 minutes with your thumb and feel local swelling and pain. This point is suitable for relieving symptoms such as headache, dizziness, hypochondriac pain and abdominal pain caused by anxiety.
Take the reflex area of the foot center (located in the small depression in the middle section of the fifth metatarsal bone of the left palm). Tap with your index finger for 3-5 minutes, preferably with local fever. Massage this reflex zone is suitable for relieving emotions and eliminating anxiety.
Take the liver reflex area of the foot (located between the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones of the right sole, at the corresponding position of the instep). Press with your thumb for 3-4 minutes and feel sore. Massage this reflex zone is suitable for relieving anxiety.
(3) Ear massage and ear acupoint selection. Pinch your thumb and forefinger for 3-4 minutes and feel local swelling and pain. Massage this reflex zone frequently, which is suitable for relieving anxiety caused by hyperactivity of heart fire.
Take the sympathetic reflex area of the ear as an example. Press the index finger for 3-5 minutes and feel sore. This method is suitable for relieving anxiety and headache and palpitation caused by it.
Take the renal reflex area of the ear as an example. Knead your forefinger for 2-3 minutes, with tenderness as the degree. Massage this reflex zone frequently, which is suitable for relieving anxiety.
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