{"id":4143,"date":"2024-01-02T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umedoc.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:01:38","slug":"what-is-anxiety-and-how-to-treat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umedoc.com\/es\/what-is-anxiety-and-how-to-treat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Anxiety and How to Treat It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders for both children and adults in the United States. There are multiple anxiety disorders, but they all share a primary feature: excessive fear and anxiety along with related behavioral changes. That is, a person changes their normal behavior to avoid whatever triggers their anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Do I Know If I Have Anxiety?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety can manifest in many ways, and children and adolescents with anxiety may present differently than adults with anxiety. The principal components of anxiety are psychological and somatic signs and symptoms in response to a trigger, generally for six months or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few psychological symptoms include tension, fears, difficulty concentrating, and apprehension surrounding a person\u2019s anxiety trigger. Somatic signs may include hyperventilation, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, tremors, sweating, and palpitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In adolescents, increased irritability or refusing to go to school could be signs of anxiety; while in children, anxiety can manifest as crying, clinging, tantrums, shrinking, and refusing to speak in social situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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