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Role of Homeopathy in Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety is a normal response to stress presented as fear or apprehension about what’s to come. However, people with anxiety disorders have frequent, intense, persistent worry and fear about everyday situations, strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities. Anxiety disorders are most common mental disorders affecting nearly 30% of adults at some point in their lives. But the good news is that it’s treatable and treatment helps most people lead normal productive lives.

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Anxiety disorder can cause people to avoid situations that trigger or worsens their symptoms hence, affecting their performance at work, social and personal relationships. It can have physical effects like headache, sweating of palms, palpitations and tremors, abnormal speech, insomnia and tics in severe cases. Anxiety might be a presenting symptom of certain medical disorders e.g. high levels of thyroid hormones, cardiac diseases etc. Patients with anxiety disorder have high chances of having addictions.

The cause of anxiety disorders are currently unknown but likely involve combination of factors including genetic, environmental, psychological and developmental. It can run in families, suggesting that a combination of genes and environmental stresses can produce the disorder.

Homoeopathy has an excellent scope in treating anxiety disorders. A homoeopathic case taking involves understanding the patient as a whole, including the individual and their personal and social environment, thereby identifying the root cause of anxiety. Homeopathic treatment is aimed not only in controlling patient’s symptoms but also tries to resolve the psychological conflicts leading to the symptoms.

Homoeopathic remedies such as Ars Alb, Argentum Nitricum, Aconite, Gelsemium, Lycopodium, Silicea, etc are few of the many which are extremely useful to treat anxiety. The constitutional homeopathic treatment helps patient to have a better understanding of self and develop better coping mechanisms to deal with his life situations. With the relief of anxiety, self-confidence improves, outlook towards life in general changes and overall quality of life improves which helps rise on the scale of general functioning.

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