Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety Disorder is a form of mental disturbance that is associated with a wide range of physical illness, medication side effects and other psychiartric disorders.

How is Anxiety Disorder Diagnosed?

• With a Physical Examination.
• Blood or urine test, if a medical condition is suspected
• Use psychological questionnaires to help determine a diagnosis.

Symptoms

• Excessive Worrying
• Feeling Agitated
• Restlessness
• Fatigue
• Difficulty in concentrating
• Irritability
• Trouble falling or staying asleep
• Panic Attacks
• Avoiding social gatherings

Causes

• Stress from serious medical illness.
• Side effects of medications.
• Use of illicit drug such as cocaine
• Symptom of a medical illness (such as heart attack, heat stroke, hypoglycemia)
• Lack of oxygen in circumstances as diverse as high altitude sickness, emphysema, or pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the vessels of the lung)
• Spine injury and migraine
• It is not necessary that anxiety disorder happens because of any illness, it can happen without any reason too.

Levels of Anxiety Disorder

• Mild Anxiety –  Mild anxiety is common in everyday life. It can impact emotional, social and professional functioning and is experienced in early childhood to adulthood.
• Moderate Anxiety – People with moderate levels of anxiety have more frequent or persistent symptoms than those with mild anxiety, but still have better daily functioning than someone with severe anxiety or panic disorder.
• Severe Anxiety – People with severe anxiety typically score higher on scales of distress and lower on functioning. Severe anxiety symptoms also frequently co-occur with major depression, which can contribute to greater disability.
• Panic level Anxiety – Panic level anxiety, or panic disorder, is characterized by frequent, recurring and unexpected panic attacks. It usually last around 10 minutes. The triggers for panic attacks vary from person to person.

Treatment

Naturopathy Treatment

• Mud pack
• Enema
• Steam bath
• Whole body wet sheet pack
• Full body massage
• Feet, palm and head massage
• Dry friction bath
• Wet friction bath
• Spine bath.

Yoga

1. Sukshma vyayam
2. Asanas
   • Thunderpose
   • Cat pose
   • Half camel pose
   • Rabbit pose
   • Frog pose
   • Setubandha asana
   • Suptaudrakarshanasan
   • Crocodile pose
   • Bhujangasana
   • Tiryak bhujangasana
3. Suryanamaskar
4. Shithalikaran
5. Pranayam
   • Anulom vilom
   • Kapalbhati
   • Bhramari
6. Mudras
   • Gyana Mudra
   • Prana mudra
   • Apan mudra
   • Vayu mudra

Key Notes

• Patient should always take care of its own capacity. Capacity of movement, holding the posture and capacity of repetition.
• If patient is unable to seat calmly  they are suggested to start with standing poses asanas,  surya namaskar followed by shithalikaran and lastly pranayam Mudra.
• If patient is unable to work hard or suffering from other diseases or feels always exhausted they should strat from mudra,  pranayam,  laying down asanas and then sukshma vyayam.

Diet

1. 6am – Kadha (saunf, Ajwain, methi dana, jeera, ilaichi).
2. Breakfast – Daliya , sabji , small cutting salad, one sweet fruit or 4 pieces of dates.
3. 12 pm – One glass butter milk (no sugar no salt but could be added some jaggery according to taste)
4. Lunch (2pm-3pm) – Brown rice, roti, kadhi, sabji, patli daal, one bowl minutely chopped salad.
5. 4pm – sweet lime juice.
6.  7pm to 9pm – Fox nuts ( full makha), one sweet pulpy  fruit , a cup of warm milk.

Psychological Treatment

• The patient should be kept in a healthy environment and with people they are comfortable with.
• The main aim of attendant should be to convince the patient for the treatment. Positive results are seen in a very few days.
• Never blame the patient for the situation they are in.
•  Talk to the patients on the topic they want to talk about and in between the talking tell the patients some right things in a very few words.
• Always tell the patient that he/she is correct and someone is there who needs them.
• Always make the patient feel good about themselves by telling good things about them and their surroundings.
• Never force the patient for anything like getting up early do exercises , yoga or meditation.

Do’s and Don’ts

Say YES to:

1. Wake up before sunrise.
2. Take proper rest.
3. Pray and have positive and generous thoughts.
4. Take pure natural satwik food.
5. Milk, butter milk, sprouts, fox nuts dates, raisins, fig, honey, jaggery, and sweet pulpy fruits.
6. Fruit juice and vegetable’s soup.

Say NO to:

1. Laziness, stress, selfishness.
2. Maida, pickles, papad, Mathias, bhujiya, nimki, biscuits.
3. All kind of packed food and juice.
4. Tea, coffee, white sugar and red chilly.
5. Avoid to eat without hunger and over eating.
6. Avoid all sour food including lemon and tamarind.

Key Points

• The person suffering from any kind of mental aliment should avoid wearing dark colour clothes.
• They should avoid sleeping on dark coloured bedsheets
• They should also avoid keeping sharp edged furniture and household things.
• Before sleeping they should not watch or play violent movies or games.
• They should have a poster or a wall decoration of big yellow flower in their bedroom, which they should see before going to bed and after getting up in the morning.

All the information available on this website is for education and awareness purposes only. Follow these practices only under the guidance of a trained Yoga and Naturopathy practitioner. Punam Agarwal and her Yoga and Naturopathy initiatives are not liable for any injuries caused during the process.