Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders usually disturb the patients of the best addiction treatment center in Pakistan strike without signs or warnings, leaving their victims frightened and confused. In most cases, people don’t realize what is happening, and they might think that what is causing them to feel scared, worried, and anxious is temporary. If given the agoraphobia panic disorder enough time, it will go away. People tend to ignore the symptoms of anxiety disorders at first, and they blame them on too much stress at work, dire financial situations, working too hard, etc.

Still, according to several different therapies and methods that can cure anxiety disorders and numerous worldwide research studies, the best results are achieved by combining medication and psychotherapy. For the majority of psychotherapists, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy would be the first recommendation.

 

 

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

 

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy has been proven to be the most effective treatment for overcoming panic attacks and anxiety disorders, with a success rate of around 80%. It is a combination of two different psychotherapeutic approaches. The cognitive part of the therapy aims to change the way the patient thinks and the other part, as its name suggests, deals with changing behavioural patterns by encouraging the patient to face the situations or objects which are the causes of their anxiety or fear.

 

 The whole concept of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy is based on the idea that our fears, worries, anxieties, and all the other emotions (positive or negative) are nothing more than products of our minds. If we train ourselves to think correctly in every given situation, no external things (other people, conditions, or objects) can influence or change how our body responds.

 

 To make this theory easier to understand, here is an example. Imagine you are driving in your car down the local road, and suddenly out of nowhere, comes another car, running the red light and smashing into you. If your instant thoughts were: “What was that idiot thinking? He almost killed me. Look at my car! I’ll teach them a lesson right now.” This attitude will immediately release much adrenaline; you will feel furious and almost certainly make the whole situation even worse.

 

 On the other hand, if you were an extraordinarily calm and reasonable person or if your mind was somehow prepared (trained) for the situation in question, your reaction to that accident would result in thoughts like: “OMG, that was close. Luckily I wasn’t hurt. Let me check on the other driver. Hope they are fine too.” The whole experience would still shake you, but the level of your emotional distress wouldn’t be even close to the one in the first case scenario.

 

 Besides being the most effective therapy for anxiety disorders, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also appeals to patients for its ability to produce satisfactory results relatively quickly. Depending on the type of anxiety disorder and its severity, the treatment usually requires 5-20 visits (the average is 16).

 

 To achieve the best possible results sooner, it is a common practice for patients to be prescribed some medication while undergoing Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment, especially at the early stages. Medication relieves the symptoms and suffering of the patients, while psychotherapy teaches them how to control and overcome anxiety and fears and decreases the possibility of their reoccurrence.