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Anxiety
Your emotional wellbeing is as important
as your physical health. A stressful lifestyle or anxieties
about your relationship, for example, can leave you
exhausted and prone to illnesses.
One in 20 people suffer from severe anxiety or neurosis,
feeling agitated and worried about what are often trivial
day-to-day issues, to a degree which interferes with
their life.
They may constantly feel ‘butterflies’
in their stomach, palpitations, sickness or headaches.
Sleep problems are also common and there may be endless
health worries.
The situation is made worse by stress, such as work,
noise (even at home), and relationship problems. Difficult
life events, even pleasant ones such as a wedding, can
make the anxiety unbearable.
Tranquillizers used to be handed out for anxiety with
hardly a thought - but these days, they are only used
for a short term to help people through particularly
difficult times.
Medication such as antidepressants or anxiety-reducing
drugs can treat symptoms like depression and insomnia
while therapy can help with coming to terms with the
trauma.
However, in a stressful life medication is becoming
a last resort as people turn to alternative therapies
to reduce their stress. These therapies help a person
understand their anxiety and to learn how to deal with
their stress. These therapies include counseling, psychotherapy,
relaxation techniques, and hypnotherapy.
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