Anxiety has several treatments available today, though many not as effective as we would like them to be. For lower stage anxiety disorders, long-term medical treatment is usually not required. Your doctor may just prescribe you an anti-depressant and call it a day. However, what if that treatment of your symptoms and not the actual condition of anxiety only causes you to have more and more repeat attacks of anxiety and they become a long-term thing, taking over your life?

Sufferers may experience the feeling of being disconnected from reality or losing their minds accompanied by physical symptoms like shortness of breath, pounding heartbeat, excessive sweating, trembling, chest pain and nausea. It is important for sufferers to find the best ways of treating anxiety disorder before it can totally rule their lives.

Aromatherapy is an ancient practice that has been used by people for centuries for the treatment of various physical and psychological illnesses. Some of the best aromatherapy oils that are used for treating anxiety and depression are lavender, chamomile, sandalwood and clary sage. In addition to massage and aromatherapy, acupressure and acupuncture also rank among the most popular non-chemical treatments for anxiety and depression.

The second approach to treating anxiety is behavioral therapy. Experienced therapists can help with individualized treatments for different disorder types. One way in which therapists help the patient to regain control of their anxiety is by forcing them to face their worries and fears and address these under experienced supervision. Learning to recognize onset of panic attacks and hence calming oneself down before they blow out of proportion is another trick the therapists can teach.

Where younger children are involved, role playing should be used. What this means is that you could try showing pictures from magazines or books to your child and ask him or her to describe the countenance of that person, how is the person feeling; is he sad or happy? Joyful or sorrowful etc. Once your child responds, you can then help him or her understand why the person in the picture is either mad, sad, happy etc.

This is one of the simplest anxiety attack treatments and highly effective. When you are in the midst of an attack, your heart will race and muscles become tense, concentrated breathing can help slow your heart and promote relaxation. By forcing the mind to focus on your breathing you also, take the attention off your stressor, which promotes calmness and therefore puts an end to a panic attack sooner.

And what will happen is that you will learn how to stop whatever that has been triggering your anxiety attacks which results in your body's physical symptoms. Getting the right advice which explains the simple and powerful techniques can really be effective to breaking the seemingly endless cycle of attacks.

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