The Best Darn Anxiety Disorder Book: Understanding Symptoms and Treatments for Chronic Anxiousness - Paperback

by James M. Lowrance (Author)

This book is also a section found in "The Everything Anxiety-Coping Book". Readers who wish to read about aspects of anxiety disorders specifically, can do so via this title. Anxiety Disorders affect about 40-million people in the U.S. alone and many millions more worldwide. Within this resource, each type of disorder is described in detail. Symptoms, diagnosis and treatments are also discussed in easy-to-understand but concise language, so that both novice readers and those in the mental health profession can benefit from the information provided. Those who suspect they or a loved-one may be experiencing an Anxiety Disorder can read descriptions of those that might possibly be affecting them (A definitive diagnosis must come through a licensed professional.). Manifestations of chronic anxiety such as "unreality symptoms" (depersonalization and derealization) are discussed as are the subjects of "catastrophic thinking" and what it means to become "sensitized to anxiety". Other subjects of interest for those who wish to learn more about chronic or severe anxiety include discussions on "the fight or flight response" (anxiety mechanism) and what it really means to have a "nervous breakdown". Types of therapies to treat anxiety are also discussed, including psychiatric, self-help and drug treatments. CHAPTER 1. 40 Million U.S. Adult Anxiety Disorder Sufferers CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Fight or Flight Response CHAPTER 3. Medical Causes of Anxiety Symptoms CHAPTER 4. Anxiety Disorder Symptom Phenomena CHAPTER 5. More about Chronic Anxiety Unreality Symptoms CHAPTER 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Basic Facts CHAPTER 7. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Basic Facts CHAPTER 8. Panic Disorder Basic Information CHAPTER 9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Basic Facts CHAPTER 10. Social Anxiety Disorder Basic Facts CHAPTER 11. Chronic Thoughts of Irrational Worry CHAPTER 12. Dealing with a Climax of Anxiety Symptoms CHAPTER 13. When the Stress of Life becomes Overwhelming CHAPTER 14. Chronic Anxiety Associated with Thyroid Disorder CHAPTER 15. When Phobic Reactions Are Easily Triggered by Stress CHAPTER 16. More about Chronic Anxiety and Panic Coping Methods

Author Biography

I formerly served as editor and forum moderator of Thyroid Health for BellaOnline and as a general health for Suite101, for which I received Editor's Choice Awards for my articles on health subjects. In 2003 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism; "Hashimoto's thyroiditis" being the cause. This autoimmune form of thyroid disease that causes destruction of the thyroid gland resulted in my also developing "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", due to a compromised immune system with severe co-morbid "Adrenal Fatigue". I also suffered severe anxiety symptoms, including panic attacks early into the onset of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Hashitoxicosis - temporary hyperthyroidism). A common heart murmur I was diagnosed with in my teens called "Mitral Valve Prolapse", also worsened in severity of symptoms, with the development of these other health disorders. My eventual receiving of diagnoses was a difficult process with proper diagnostic testing not being ordered by the first doctors I sought treatment from. These types of issues were inspiration for me to become proactive in my own health care and to self-educate myself on these health disorders, which I have done extensively since 2003. I now enjoy sharing this information with other patients experiencing my same health disorders.