Here is an interesting article regarding Anxiety disorders, affecting approximately 40 million adults aged 18 and older. I’ve summarized the article below, but feel free to jump right in an see the information it lists!
GAD – or Generalized Anxiety Disorder is often seen with symptoms of excessive worrying, recurring thoughts and or behaviors that may appear uncontrollable or over-controlled.
GAD – can come with Panic attacks – frequent sudden attacks that may include difficulty breathing, hyperventilating, intense pain or discomfort and may appear to come un suddenly.
Significant or specialized types of anxiety disorders include:
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- significant traumatic event that can vary from situations including witnessing domestic violence, combat, significant unexpected work situation, medical trauma and more
- Social anxiety disorder: anxiety around people, feeling watched or judged
Anxiety can be a part of or influencing factor in…
- mood disorders – moderate to severe symptoms which cause fluctuations in moods enough to disrupt daily lives – anxious, empty, guilt, decreased energy
- major depressive disorder
- bipolar disorder
- substance-induced mood disorder
- psychotic disorders
- dementia
- eating disorders
Where to go for help with any of these concerns listed above? You can start with checking your insurance member portal- they have a way to find medical and behavioral health providers and who is actively accepting clients and in network. Check out my page here, scroll all the way to the bottom to find a list of questions to ask when you call. Whoever you choose to be your provider will appreciate you calling ahead!
There are also different directories you can go on to filter providers such as psychologytoday and mentalhealthmatch, and a non-insurance, low-income directory- openpath people who may not have insurance or the funds to pay their high deductible plan copays or access to providers who may not have sliding scales. Those directories are not always as up to date as the insurance directories are, so I would recommend starting with insurance and then taking names you find to those directories.
