Causes and Treatments of Anxiety Disorders

Follow the links below to find information about the causes of and risk factors for anxiety disorders, and how to manage and treat anxiety.

Reviewed March 2009

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Title:   Anxiety disorders
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Anxiety is a normal feeling that people have when they are faced with something that could be dangerous or difficult, embarrassing or stressful.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Anxiety disorder medications - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Prolonged episodes of anxiety or recurrent anxiety attacks can make your day-to-day life difficult. Treatment with medication can be of great help.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Fact sheet 6 - reducing stress
Publisher:   beyondblue
Description:   Stress is a response to an event or situation. It can be positive or negative. Stress is common in daily life and may be associated with work, family or personal relationships. It usually means that something is happening that's causing worry and affecting how we are thinking and feeling.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Anxiety disorders
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   An anxiety disorder is a medical condition. Anxiety disorders include generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Music for stress and anxiety reduction in coronary heart disease patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Individuals with coronary heart disease often suffer from severe distress putting them at greater risk for complications, including sudden cardiac death. This review included 23 randomized controlled trials with a total of 1461 participants. The finding...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Tranquillisers
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Minor tranquillisers, or benzodiazepines, are nervous system depressants commonly prescribed to treat anxiety or insomnia. 'Major tranquillisers', or antipsychotics, are used to help treat psychosis and illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Tranquillisers are also known as sedatives. Tranquillisers should not be used by pregnant women unless under medical supervision as they may pose a risk to the developing baby.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Anxiety
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Everyone feels some anxiety at different times during their life. It becomes a problem if you feel so anxious that it interferes with your normal day-to-day activities. This updated factsheet contains information on how anxiety might have affect your behaviour and your physical health, as well as suggestions on how it you can manage it.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Paruresis - shy bladder syndrome
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A person with paruresis finds it difficult or impossible to urinate (wee) when other people are around. Paruresis is a common type of social phobia. Paruresis is often first experienced at school. The condition is also known as 'avoidant paruresis', 'shy bladder syndrome', 'psychogenic urinary retention' and 'pee-phobia'.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Healthy sleeping
Publisher:   InfraPsych
Description:   When patterns of sleep become disrupted there may be significant deterioration in health. Describes sleep disturbance and mental illness, types of sleep problems, medications and other substances that interfere with sleep, and things to do to improve sleep.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Get help
Publisher:   beyondblue: the national depression initiative
Description:   This page provides a list of contacts for assistance, as well as where and when you should seek assistance for depression.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Anxiety - treatment options
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Treatment for anxiety disorders may include cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, attention training, counselling, diet and exercise and the use of techniques including relaxation and assertiveness training. Medication can help to alleviate anxiety symptoms, but is not a long-term solution.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anxiety disorders are a common occurrence in the general population and have considerable impact on quality of life. This review aimed to assess the effectiveness of therapeutic touch on anxiety disorders. However no randomised controlled trials investi...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Psychological treatment for anxiety in people with traumatic brain injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychological interventions are commonly used in the management of anxiety and certain types of psychological treatments, such as cognitive behaviour therapy, are well suited to needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). An advantage of the...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Passiflora for anxiety disorder
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anxiety is a very common mental health problem in the general population. Passiflora, a herbal medicine, could be an option for treating anxiety if shown to be effective and safe. This review summarised the evidence from currently available studies on p...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   General anxiety
Publisher:   Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
Description:   As most of us worry, it is useful to recognise when that worry becomes a problem. It is generally true that all people tend to worry about the same sorts of things. Worry becomes a problem when it is excessive and/or difficult to control.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Are you worried?
Publisher:   Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
Description:   Being too worried is awful. This page contains some general advice and a description of techniques that you can use to reduce these feelings.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Anxiety Disorders
Publisher:   Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc
Description:   There are different types of anxiety disorders including generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. This factsheet looks at risk factors, diagnosis and treatment options.
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Valerian for anxiety disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anxiety disorders are a very common mental health problem in the community. Most of the medications used to treat anxiety have side effects. Valerian is a phytotherapeutic medication frequently used for insomnia. The aim of this study was to investigate...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Psychological therapies for generalised anxiety disorder
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a very common condition, in which people suffer from excessive worry or anxiety about everyday events and problems. Psychological therapies are a popular form of treatment for anxiety disorders. This review aimed to...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Depression and anxiety
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Many theories have debated the link between hormones and depression. When all of the research is summarised it appears that oestrogen and testosterone are likely to account for a small percentage of the depressed mood women experience around the time they become menopausal.
Date:   May 2006
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