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Many people with post traumatic stress disorder
can be helped with treatment. Therapy for anxiety disorders often involves
medication or specific forms of psychotherapy.
Medications, although not cures, can be very effective at
relieving anxiety symptoms. Today, thanks to research by scientists at NIMH
and other research institutions, there are more medications available than
ever before to treat anxiety disorders. So if one drug is not successful,
there are usually others to try. In addition, new medications to treat
anxiety symptoms are under development.
For most of the medications that are prescribed to treat
anxiety disorders, the doctor usually starts the patient on a low dose and
gradually increases it to the full dose. Every medication has side effects,
but they usually become tolerated or diminish with time. If side effects
become a problem, the doctor may advise the patient to stop taking the
medication and to wait a week?or longer for certain drugs?before trying
another one. When treatment is near an end, the doctor will taper the dosage
gradually.
Research has also shown that behavioral therapy and
cognitive-behavioral therapy can be effective for treating several of the
anxiety disorders.
Behavioral therapy focuses on changing specific actions and
uses several techniques to decreases or stop unwanted behavior. For example,
one technique trains patients in diaphragmatic breathing, a special
breathing exercise involving slow, deep breaths to reduce anxiety. This is
necessary because people who are anxious often hyperventilate, taking rapid
shallow breaths that can trigger rapid heartbeat, lightheadedness, and other
symptoms. Another technique?exposure therapy?gradually exposes patients to
what frightens them and helps them cope with their fears.
Like behavioral therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches
patients to react differently to the situations and bodily sensations that
trigger panic attacks and post traumatic stress disorder. However, patients
also learn to understand how their thinking patterns contribute to their
symptoms and how to change their thoughts so that symptoms are less likely
to occur. This awareness of thinking patterns is combined with exposure and
other behavioral techniques to help people confront their feared situations.
For example, someone who becomes lightheaded during a panic attack and fears
he is going to die can be helped with the following approach used in
cognitive-behavioral therapy. The therapist asks him to spin in a circle
until he becomes dizzy. When he becomes alarmed and starts thinking, "I'm
going to die," he learns to replace that thought with a more appropriate
one, such as "It's just a little dizziness?I can handle it."
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