Anxiety Disorders
If your anxiety is impacting your quality of life, you’re not alone. Our Providers can help you find the right anxiety medication and live life to the fullest. Book an appointment today.
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What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a serious mental health condition affecting millions of people worldwide. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is classified as chronic worry or fear that is often intrusive and can interrupt daily life.
It is important to understand that it is common to experience occasional anxiety at some point throughout your lifetime, and not all people struggling with some form of anxiety require anxiety medication.
A diagnosis of anxiety, or GAD, typically requires that the patient has experiences ongoing symptoms for at least six months. There are many causes of GAD that can be attributed to various lifestyle and environmental factors, such as losing a job, financial stress, or an unhealthy relationship.
Symptoms of Anxiety
Patients diagnosed with anxiety typically experience anxiety symptoms for a minimum period of 6 months. Symptoms may occur as the result of lifestyle, biological environmental factors, but in some cases there is no apparent reason why symptoms occur.
People struggling with anxiety experience a wide variety of symptoms, which may include one or more of the following:
- A constant feeling of fear or dread
- Uncontrollable worry for no apparent reason
- Feeling restless or on-edge
- Difficulty concentrating
- Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep
- Indecisiveness
- Fatigue
- Excessive sweating
- Digestive problems
- Muscle tension and/or muscle soreness from tension
How is Anxiety treated?
Medication Management
Medication management is an ongoing process between patient and provider that helps find the right medication and dosage to treat your symptoms both safely and effectively.
Telemedicine
Telemedicine appointments take place over our virtual video conferencing platform which allows you to connect with a BestMind provider from anywhere with internet connection.