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Also visit the online treatment locator, or send your zip code via text message: 435748 (HELP4U) to find help near you. Read more about the HELP4U text messaging service.

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treatment in St. Petersburg in "VERAMED"

is a borderline pathology between neurosis and depression with symptoms of both disorders. As the name implies, the main manifestations of the disease are anxiety and depression. About 90,003 of these disorders rarely go to the doctor, meanwhile, without treatment, the disease progresses further and leads to panic attacks, severe depression, up to mental disability.

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Causes of anxiety-depressive disorders:

Childhood trauma.
High emotionality and mental instability.
Negative thinking, evaluative perception (good or bad, right or wrong, right or wrong, etc.).
Current stressful situations (in the family, at work, etc.).

The diagnosis of anxiety and depressive disorders is made on the basis of the clinical picture of the disease, anamnesis of life and health, pathopsychological examination. Depending on the symptoms, anxiety-phobic, panic disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety-depressive and post-traumatic stress disorders are distinguished.

Reflexotherapy well relieves vegetative symptoms - sweating, tension, etc.

Symptoms of disease

Mental symptoms:

unexplained anxiety, restlessness, irrational fear, irritability;

persistent decrease in emotional background, bad mood;

concentration problems, fatigue;

emotional fluctuations from anger to apathy;

sleep disturbance.
Physical or bodily manifestations:

rapid heartbeat and respiration;

sweating;

chills;

dizziness;

nausea, loss of appetite;

motor voltage.

Methods of treatment

The treatment of anxiety-depressive disorders is quite complex and lengthy. Medicines can only reduce the main manifestations of the disease. The best results in the treatment of anxiety-depressive disorders are hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.

Drug therapy

Psychotherapy

(hypnotherapy, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, body and gestalt psychotherapy, etc.).

Reflexology

Physiotherapy

and spa treatment (binaural stimulation, biofeedback, etc.).

Advantages of Veramed Medical Center in the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders

At the Veramed Medical Center in St. Petersburg, patients are provided with high-quality treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders due to the following advantages:

Highly qualified specialists

- doctors with extensive clinical experience in the treatment of these particular diseases.
Treatment of anxiety disorders

is our main business.
We use

to treat these disorders hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, binaural stimulation - these are the methods recommended by WHO and give the best result.

Treatment of anxiety disorders

is our main focus.
We use

to treat these disorders hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, binaural stimulation - these are the methods recommended by WHO and give the best result.
After stopping fear

- the first link of neurosis - and replacing painful stereotypes with healthy ones, a practical recovery takes place.

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Reviews

I came to Veramed with a problem that prevented me from living in peace for many years.

I constantly had a feeling of anxiety for my loved ones. I was calm only when everyone was at home. As soon as someone stepped outside the threshold, my imagination painted terrible pictures of what could happen to my loved ones. And, God forbid, someone did not answer the phone when I called, then a wild panic began, up to a heart attack. I tormented myself and my loved ones. My husband signed me up with Dr. Mukminov for a course of hypnotherapy. After the first session, a miracle did not happen, but gradually, from session to session, I realized that I was becoming calmer and the fear was gradually disappearing, giving way to logic. Many thanks to Albert Alekseevich, a wonderful doctor!!!!!!!!! Best regards, Evgenia Orpanen

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Evgeniya

Anxiety disorder: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Psychotherapist

Krashkina

Irina Ivanovna

Experience 31 years

Psychotherapist, candidate of medical sciences, member of the Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League

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Anxiety disorder is a type of neurotic condition in which a person experiences continuous anxiety about life circumstances, their appearance and relationships with people around them. Staying in this state for a long time creates uncomfortable living conditions for a person, which become the reason for him to withdraw into himself, not to develop his own abilities and limit his social circle.

Symptoms and signs

It is believed that when an anxiety disorder appears, the symptoms are as follows:

severe form of anxiety and emotional stress before the onset of panic attacks;
frequent mood swings;
persistent sleep disorder;
constant conflicts with others;
reduced acuity of reactions and inhibited thinking;
increased sweating, rapid pulse;
fatigue and weakness leading to decreased performance;
complaints about the appearance of pain in different parts of the body.

These symptoms of anxiety disorder are signs of autonomic and mental disorders.

The hallmarks of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder are:

total manifestation of anxiety before any life circumstances;
inability to concentrate on domestic activities or work;
constant motor voltage;
inability to relax;
indigestion and stomach pain;
heart disease.

Symptoms of an anxiety-depressive disorder occur against the background of constant depression:

lack of interest in the manifestations of life and close people;
lack of positive emotions;
sudden feeling of fear;
vegetative disorders - rapid pulse, shortness of breath, lack of air, increased sweating, proximity to fainting, etc.

Causes of the onset and development of the disease

Experts believe that the following factors contribute to the appearance of the disease:

the presence of persistent circulatory disorders, hormonal failures or chronic heart disease;
a chronic form of dependence on alcohol, drugs, psychoactive substances, as well as a sharp cessation of their use;
traumatic brain injuries and their consequences;
being in a situation of prolonged stress;
character traits - melancholic temperament, disturbing accents in the temperament of the character;
tendency to exaggerate dangers due to their high susceptibility;
neurotic and mental disorders: depression, neurasthenia, hysteria, schizophrenia, paranoia, various manias;
mental trauma in children at an early age and in adults in extreme situations - war, earthquake, being in a state close to death, loss of a loved one or his support, and others.

Psychologists view the process of anxiety in different ways:

adherents of psychoanalysis believe that the reason is the regular suppression of their own desires;
the second believe that the reason is the break in the connection between the stimulus and the response of the psyche to the stimulus;
still others believe that the reason is in the reaction of the psyche to distorted mental images of a person.

Disease classification

Anxiety disorder according to the ICD is a neurotic disorder along with fears, suspiciousness and post-traumatic disorders. One of the main signs of an anxious personality disorder is the pathology of the origin of anxiety, the disproportionate degree of protection to the stimulus factor.

Pathological anxiety:

not caused by real danger;
is not proportionate to the significance of the situation;
is not associated with a lack of time and knowledge;
is being actively ousted;
brings significant discomfort to a person's life;
is much more pronounced than normal;
is long in time;
has satellites in the form of tension and expectation of consequences, concern and doubt, feelings of helplessness.

Types of anxiety disorder:

anxiety-depressive disorder is caused by the constant presence of anxiety without sources of danger, has pathological changes in the patient's personality;
phobic anxiety disorder is based on dwelling on past unpleasant consequences;
social anxiety disorder is characterized by the patient's avoidance of contact with other people;
mixed anxiety disorder causes a simultaneous feeling of pathological anxiety and depressed mood;
anxiety-panic disorder is characterized by the presence of panic attacks;
Anxiety-neurotic disorder is associated with anxiety before any diseases, severe shyness and unrest;
generalized anxiety disorder is accompanied by excessive fussiness, anxiety without specific dangers and threats.

Risk factors and groups

Risk factors include child abuse, hereditary mental disorders, historical family poverty, or other antisocial manifestations.

The risk group includes people prone to neurotic diseases - depression, hysteria; people taking alcohol, drugs, psychotropic drugs; women between the ages of 20 and 30.

Complications

In the absence of adequate treatment, anxiety disorder leads to the following socio-psychological complications:

low self-esteem;
self-isolation from society;
insomnia;
the appearance of a feeling of hopelessness;
exhaustion of the organism.

Social complications are job loss, financial problems, relationship breakdown, alcoholism, drug addiction, substance abuse, and others. Physical complications - irritation in the intestines, heartburn, lack of interest in sex, weight loss or excess weight gain, headaches and muscle strain, decreased immunity, the development of allergies, accelerated aging, cancer, heart disease and many others.

Diagnostics

The accumulated information about this disease made it possible to test reliable methods of drug and psychotherapeutic treatment. This disease belongs to the areas of professional interest of a psychiatrist and a medical psychologist.

Specialists use the following methods for diagnosing a neurotic disease:

initial individual consultation involves a survey to identify emotional reactions, obtain information about the patient's lifestyle, motives and interests;
psychodiagnostic examination and projective testing aimed at identifying pathological anxiety and related disorders;
observation of the patient and his life, relationships with the outside world and with people.

Preparing to see a doctor

Before entering the psychotherapist's office, the patient is advised to formulate all his problems, report on the use of all psychoactive substances, including the start/end dates and the total duration of the use. In addition, the positive attitude of the patient to the treatment and the effect that it will bring is extremely important.

Treatment

Anxiety disorders are treated with a complex of methods based on changing the patient's lifestyle, psychotherapy and taking medications. Treatment for generalized anxiety disorder is based on the use of psychoactive-type medications, such as antidepressants. In no case should you arbitrarily stop taking medications. Psychotherapy of anxiety disorder is carried out by various methods - individual, group, family. The main direction of the impact of therapy is an increased impact on the attitude towards the fears and anxieties that have appeared.

Among traditional medicine, it is possible to use medicinal herbs, infusions and decoctions from them, for example, lemon balm, chamomile. These herbs act on the human body, bringing a relaxing effect, thanks to this effect, anxiety disorders and their cause temporarily reduce their degree of activity.

Self-treatment of an anxiety disorder threatens with pains and neuroses of a different nature, which need to be treated more deeply.

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