A worrying statistic says that nineteen million American adults are affected by anxiety disorders.
The severe cases are usually identified and the sufferers receive proper treatment.
Mild cases are a lot harder to identify and the person experiencing them doesn't benefit of any therapy at all.
Anxiety disorders are accompanied by a set of physical symptoms which vary depending on the severity of the illness.
These symptoms include difficulties in breathing, mostly because of the pains in the chest area, palpitations, changes in the body temperature, gastrointestinal problems, changes in menstruation and sexual problems.
Anxiety comes with a feeling of fear and stress and leads to sweating and trembling besides the other symptoms listed above.
Anxiety attacks that happen over the night are scary because the person awakes from a deep sleep with an uncontrollable feeling of fear.
A dangerous association is that between anxiety disorders and depression.
It leads to panic attacks, or even worse, to obsessive compulsive disorder.
The treatment for anxiety disorder can consist either of taking medication or of going to psychological therapy.
It usually is a combination of this two and it shows good results in healing the patient.
Nevertheless, cognitive behavioral therapy is proved to be more efficient than anti-anxiety pills.
The pills are only effective for the time they are taken.
When the patient stops the treatment the disorder may have a comeback and the situation gets more complicated than it was before starting the cure.
Anxiety can be determined by consumption of drugs and alcohol and these factors can also trigger a panic attack.
Panic attacks also occur when someone is caught in an unpleasant or tensed situation or has to be in a place considered unsecure.
The symptoms of the panic attack differ from one person to another.
Depending on the symptoms and on the type of the anxiety disorder a certain therapy is recommended.