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Treatments help A lot of persons with anxiety disorders and often combine medication and specific types of psychotherapy.
More medications are available than ever before to effectively treat anxiety disorders, These include groups of drugs called antidepressants and benzodiazepines. If one medication is not effective, others can be tried, new medications are currently under development to treat anxiety symptoms.
Two clinically-proven effective forms of psychotherapy used to treat anxiety disorders are behavioral therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy, Behavioral therapy focuses on changing specific actions and uses several techniques to stop unwanted behaviors. in addition to the behavioral therapy techniques, cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches patients to understand and change their thinking patterns so they can react differently to the situations that cause them anxiety, |
