Natural Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

If the anxiety disorder is not particularly serious, natural therapies can be used to relieve it. First of all, patients with anxiety disorder must be clearly aware that they have a problem and have the mentality of self-relief. Only in this way can they achieve good results. For example, they must build confidence in defeating the disease and fully understand that anxiety disorder is not a symptom reaction caused by organic diseases. They must adopt some relaxation therapies in a timely manner, use systematic desensitization treatments, etc.

Natural Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

1. To build confidence in overcoming the disease, patients should firmly believe that the things they worry about do not exist at all, and that the disease can be completely cured after proper treatment.

2. Whenever possible, seek care and support from family members, colleagues, and organizations to resolve specific issues that may cause anxiety.

3. It should be fully recognized that anxiety disorder is not an organic disease and does not pose a direct threat to human life. Therefore, patients should not have any mental stress or psychological burden.

4. Under the guidance of a doctor, learn to regulate emotions and self-control, such as mental relaxation, diverting attention, and eliminating distracting thoughts, so as to achieve a state of letting nature take its course and being calm.

5. Learn how to correctly handle various emergency events and enhance psychological defense capabilities. Cultivate a wide range of interests and hobbies to make your mood open and cheerful.

Four Psychological Treatment Methods for Adult Anxiety

1. Relaxation therapy

For patients with milder anxiety symptoms, psychologists will first choose relaxation therapy when conducting adult anxiety psychotherapy. So-called relaxation therapy is a method that teaches patients how to relax their muscles and emotions. Patients can eliminate distracting thoughts by learning and mastering methods of regulating breathing and relaxing muscles throughout the body.

The patient should first focus on one part of the body (such as the left hand) and try to relax the muscles in that part until a warm feeling is generated. Then shift your attention to another part of your body (such as your right hand). Repeated training in this way can calm your mood, regularize your heartbeat, and make your breathing even, which is very effective for people who suffer from anxiety attacks.

2. Systematic desensitization therapy

Systematic desensitization therapy is the most commonly used treatment method in adult anxiety psychotherapy. It uses the principle of "counter-conditioning" to help patients gradually get rid of anxiety.

To implement desensitization therapy, the patient needs to be in a state of general relaxation, and then repeatedly present stimuli that can cause mild anxiety to him. When the stimuli no longer cause anxiety in the patient, the intensity of the stimuli is increased and the same process is repeated until the patient's anxiety completely disappears.

3. Shock therapy

In the psychotherapy of adult anxiety, there is also a shock therapy, which is exactly the opposite of the treatment principle of desensitization therapy. It is based on the principle of extinction, putting the most harmful stimulus situation in the first place, placing the patient in the most painful situation as quickly as possible, and inducing the patient's strongest fear or anxiety reaction as quickly as possible, without any reinforcement of these anxiety and fear reactions. Let it be, and eventually, the internal motivations that cause strong emotional reactions will gradually weaken or even disappear, and the emotional reactions will be alleviated or disappear on their own.

4. Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis therapy is mainly suitable for generalized anxiety disorder. The so-called generalized anxiety disorder refers to an anxiety disorder in which patients are always characterized by frequent, persistent tension and uneasiness without obvious objects or fixed content, or excessive worry or distress about certain problems in real life.