Anxiety Treatment in Jackson, WY
What is anxiety?
Anxiety can take many different forms. The range of anxiety disorders that people seek therapy for at Jackson Hole Mental Health is wide and include phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety. On a basic level, anxiety is worry or nervousness that is excessive or disproportionate given the trigger and how it affects your daily functioning.
What causes anxiety?
Anxiety is essentially a misfiring of our fight or flight response. Anxiety or fear serves a very valuable purpose in our lives. If we come face to face with a bear while camping, anxiety causes the release of stress hormones in the brain to mobilize us to either fight for our lives or flee for our lives. It’s not often in the modern era that we encounter bears. More likely it is presentations at work, bosses who are hard to please and relationship problems that threaten our sense of well-being. However, sometimes our body doesn't really know the difference between life-threatening situations and emotionally distressing ones.
Anxiety Symptoms
Symptoms of anxiety depend on the type of anxiety disorder, but a commonality is worry that is excessive, difficult to control and causes impairment in at least one area of a person’s life (i.e., not functioning well at work or home.)
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety and depression are two sides of the same coin. The brain chemistry that is affected in depression also causes anxiety. It is not uncommon to see both problems occurring together. For this reason, antidepressants are often a first line of defense in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fast-acting benzodiazepine drugs are often prescribed for short-term use to treat panic attacks and other forms of anxiety. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (including exposure therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy) is the mostly widely used, evidenced-based treatment for anxiety disorders.
Prognosis
Anxiety is very common and very treatable. Many people get amazing results from both antidepressant medications and therapy. All too often, people suffer needlessly with anxiety, believing that it is just their personality or that they are just a worrier. For those who seek out treatment, the prognosis is very good.
Anxiety can take many different forms. The range of anxiety disorders that people seek therapy for at Jackson Hole Mental Health is wide and include phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety. On a basic level, anxiety is worry or nervousness that is excessive or disproportionate given the trigger and how it affects your daily functioning.
What causes anxiety?
Anxiety is essentially a misfiring of our fight or flight response. Anxiety or fear serves a very valuable purpose in our lives. If we come face to face with a bear while camping, anxiety causes the release of stress hormones in the brain to mobilize us to either fight for our lives or flee for our lives. It’s not often in the modern era that we encounter bears. More likely it is presentations at work, bosses who are hard to please and relationship problems that threaten our sense of well-being. However, sometimes our body doesn't really know the difference between life-threatening situations and emotionally distressing ones.
Anxiety Symptoms
Symptoms of anxiety depend on the type of anxiety disorder, but a commonality is worry that is excessive, difficult to control and causes impairment in at least one area of a person’s life (i.e., not functioning well at work or home.)
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety and depression are two sides of the same coin. The brain chemistry that is affected in depression also causes anxiety. It is not uncommon to see both problems occurring together. For this reason, antidepressants are often a first line of defense in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fast-acting benzodiazepine drugs are often prescribed for short-term use to treat panic attacks and other forms of anxiety. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (including exposure therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy) is the mostly widely used, evidenced-based treatment for anxiety disorders.
Prognosis
Anxiety is very common and very treatable. Many people get amazing results from both antidepressant medications and therapy. All too often, people suffer needlessly with anxiety, believing that it is just their personality or that they are just a worrier. For those who seek out treatment, the prognosis is very good.