If you've tried adjusting calming your body and your mind, without seeing any change, you may want to get professional help. Getting medical treatment or therapies may help you alleviate stress or chronic worrying, which can make you worked up in the first place. You might want to seek medical help if you experience the following (which are symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder):  Your job, social life, or relationships are disrupted by your worrying. Feeling like you can't control your worrying or calm down You can't relax or concentrate You avoid situations that might make you anxious You have difficulty sleeping Feeling tense all over A mental health professional will probably want you to continue with self-help treatments, like calming your mind and body through relaxation techniques. But, you will probably start cognitive behavioral therapy. This will help you examine what makes you anxious, stressed, or worried. Once you've identified this behavior, you can come up with strategies to effectively calm down. With CBT, you'll learn:  To understand helpful and unhelpful worry, which helps you accept and respond to stress. To monitor what sets you on edge, your triggers, and how long you stay worked up. This can help you track your progress. Deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation tips. To change any negative ways of thinking or responses. This will help you mentally calm down. Face situations that usually make you anxious, worried, or panicked. This will make you feel as though you have more control. While therapy and self-help treatments are the primary ways to calm down, your mental health professional may put you on medication for the short term. These are usually anti-anxiety medications, which may help you calm down. The following are usually prescribed for General Anxiety Disorder:  Buspirone (Buspar) is an anti-anxiety drug that's not a sedative or addictive. It helps you manage, but doesn't completely eliminate anxiety. Benzodiazepines are anti-anxiety drugs respond quickly, making them useful for situations when you can't calm down. But, if you use them often, you may become psychologically and physically dependent after a few weeks. For this reason, they're usually only prescribed for severe cases of anxiety. Antidepressants are used for longer term treatment, since it takes up to 6 weeks of use before you feel anxiety relief. They may cause nausea or make sleep problems worse.
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