Report on Anxiety and Depression: Symptoms, Treatments, and Resources

This report focuses on anxiety and depression, detailing their symptoms, including constant worry, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. It explores various treatment approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which helps manage fears and anxieties, and antidepressant medications like SSRIs. The report highlights the benefits of exercise and relaxation techniques in alleviating symptoms. Additionally, it provides information on mental health resources, including websites like the National Institute of Mental Health, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, which offer support and guidance for individuals seeking help. The report emphasizes the importance of connecting clients with licensed mental health professionals and provides a comprehensive overview of available resources.

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Anxiety and depression:
 Conditions more serious than worrying and nervousness
 Cause terrifying fear about things which other individuals would not spend time thinking
on
 Depression sets in after suffering from several days of anxiety
 Can feel relief from treatment
Symptoms:
 Constant irrational worry as well as fear
 Rapid heartbeat, fatigue, headaches,
 hot flashes, sweating, abdominal pain, and
 difficulty breathing
 difficulty in decision making
 inability for relaxing (Hunter et al., 2017)
 feelings of sadness and worthlessness in a constant rate
Treatments that would be helpful:
 cognitive behavioral therapy:
 often used in treatment for anxiety disorders
 can help in teaching people for management of their fears, anxieties as well as
depressive symptoms
 helps in fighting out the causes that is resulting them
 people learn to take control of their emotions
 antidepressant medications

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 mainly is prescribed for treating of both the conditions
 often used in the conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy
 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs are important nowadays
(Kessler et al., 2015)
 provide fewer side effects than the older
 anti-depressant drugs
 Exercise
 It can help in getting over both depression as well as anxiety disorders
 It releases chemicals making the body feel good
 It can help in relaxing
 Taking a 0 minute walk help in alleviating symptoms for several hours
 Relaxation techniques
 Includes practicing of the medication as well as mindfulness (Baer, 2015)
 Help in easing symptoms for both anxiety as well as depression
 Help in improving quality of life
 Organization for offering mental health services
 National Institute of Mental health provides an online site, which has
several mental disorders enlisted under it. The mental health patients can
go to their respective disorder list and thereby develop huge amount of
information about the treatment procedures and ways of self management
along with symptoms
 Anxiety and Depression Association of America is one of the best online
resource that individual can access. It has 1800 mental health

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professionals and about 25 million people around the world visit the site
every year for help. Current treatment and research information as well as
free access to resources and support had helped individuals to overcome
their disorders.
 Association for Behavioral and cognitive therapies also has their online
site from where patients can get access and support from a CBT therapist
and also contact them for their service
 Besides hospitals, community based mental healthcare centers, and others
can be also access for service. Institute of Living- Center for Cognitive
Behavior, Indiana Center For Cognitive Behavior Therapy, The Center
for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and many others are also available for
getting support and service
References:

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Baer, R. A. (Ed.). (2015). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: Clinician's guide to
evidence base and applications. Elsevier.
Hunter, C. L., Goodie, J. L., Oordt, M. S., & Dobmeyer, A. C. (2017). Integrated behavioral
health in primary care: Step-by-step guidance for assessment and intervention. American
Psychological Association.
Kessler, R. C., Sampson, N. A., Berglund, P., Gruber, M. J., Al-Hamzawi, A., Andrade, L., ... &
Gureje, O. (2015). Anxious and non-anxious major depressive disorder in the World
Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Epidemiology and psychiatric
sciences, 24(3), 210-226.