Anxiety disorder is the most common type of mental illness. But According to Medical News Today, "only 36.9 percent of people with an anxiety disorder received treatments."
The main symptoms include being worry without clear purpose, restlessness, and activation of autonomic symptoms (heart palpitations, hand shaking, sweating, frequent urination, etc.).
Anxiety disorder is different from normal anxiety in that the severity and duration are both abnormal. Pay attention when it happens too frequently, it may be pathological anxiety.
What can cause anxiety?
1) long-term usage of certain drugs
medicines for diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis or Parkinson's disease can cause anxiety symptoms as side effects.
2) sedentary life
Most white - collar workers have a sedentary working environment, which results reduced exercise and poor health. And that is one of the reasons for increasing anxiety nowadays.
3) air pollution
A survey of 71,000 female participants found that women who lived 50 to 200 meters away from busy roads were significantly more anxious than those who lived 200 meters away from the road, so there is a strong correlation between anxiety and level of air pollution.
4) fast food
Eating high fat foods will inevitably worsen physical condition, which makes the body easier to get anxious.
Patients with anxiety disorders can learn to regulate emotions by relaxation, diverting attention, and eliminating distracting thoughts in order to achieve a natural and calm state.
Learn to properly handle various emergency events and enhance your mental defense capabilities. Develop a wide range of hobbies and open-mindedness. In addition, make sure to get enough sleep, eat fruits and vegetables to balance nutrition intake. Also do more aerobic exercise such as jogging.
The herbal and acupuncture treatment for anxiety is mainly aimed at restoring the balance between the body and mind: the herb can give nutrition and energy to each weak organ, so after some time adjustment, once the body gets well balanced, people will have peaceful and stable emotion, people will have good reaction to surrounding environments. then they will get positive feedback, As a result, they will not be anxious anymore.
