Generalized anxiety disorder is one among the 8 major types of Anxiety Disorders. They are not classified under psychotic disorders.

Anxiety Disorder is characterized by

• Excessive anxiety and worries.
• Patient won’t have a control on his worries.
• He /she would be anxious on more than one activity or event at a time.
• The patient will exhibit difficulty in getting along with his work tasks.
• He will find it difficult well within his friends circle or in the midst of his family members.
• He will be restless almost all the time.
• He will be struggling to have a cope up with his anxiety and gets exhausted soon.
• The anxiety can make his mind blank.
• He will have muscular tensions.
• We might find the patient trembling at times.
• He will have great difficulty in concentrating his mind on any one activity.
• He remains irritable. He gets exhausted very soon.
• He won’t be having a sound sleep.
• He had to struggle to fall asleep. He usually gets his sleep as a result of tiredness. He fails to stay asleep.
• He will be feeling on the edge. This causes the person to get fully stressed.
• A person to be a generalized anxiety disorder patient should have at least 4 of the above symptoms.
• Thus not getting peace of mind, worrying for unnecessary things, they remain tensed all the time.
• This mental disorder is a fine example of how mental diseases/ stress can cause physical disorder. When the person fails to control his mind and remain tensed most of the time, what happens is his body too gets tightened up. Muscles get tensed and always remain in the tensed state and fail to return to normal. The patient won’t get sleep immediately as he wishes. He worries… worries… and finally gets exhausted. Thus a fatigue mind and body makes him slip in to sleep. But the patient fails to stay asleep for a long time.
• A normal individual deprived of sleep for one or two days do face the state of mind going to blank for a short period. Then compare your restlessness after 2 days of not sleeping or the effect of a jet lag with a generalized anxiety disorder patient who remains irritable all day long and not getting sleep for days… months… years due to this disorder.
• Even children can be the prey of this disorder. Parents imposing the burden of studies on them and comparing their performance with other kids and scolding them for their low performance what they get is their child to suffer from anxiety disorder. This may start during the exam time and when parents and school authorities neglect to handle this and nib it at bud and encourage the students by giving a good backing in studies and giving a mental support, they will get back their kid away from the clutches of this anxiety disorder.

15 Ways to Treat Anxiety Disorder

1. Music therapy.
2. Meditation.
3. Shavaasana.
4. Simple loosening exercises.
5. Cooling pranayamas.
6. Naadi sudhi pranayama.
7. Psychotherapy.
8. Aroma oil therapy.
9. Chromotherapy. It is the color therapy. A nature cure physician could help you to choose the color for the patient. It’s advised to paint the patients room in that color. For treating anxiety disorder patients red and black are never used. The colors could range from calming blue to energizing the yellow to make the lethargic patient to gain a confidence and feel fresh.
10. Above all care and patience should be the milestones in treating anxiety disorder patients in general.
11. Encourage optimistic attitude in him.
12. Offer him help to deal with a problem when he is in need of help. But don’t make him feel that he is useless.
13. Encourage his to join social groups.
14. Care should be taken to provide ideal balanced healthy diet for the patient.
15. Allow them to take sufficient rest. Give him confidence to face the world.

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