Anxiety Disorder or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is psychological condition in which the patient panics, suffers from social anxiety, feel excessively self-conscious and is worried about unrealistic problems. Anxiety disorders can last for six months or more and can affect normal activities, job performance and relationships. Patients with anxiety disorders worry excessively about their health, money & career among other things. Some common symptoms of anxiety disorder are restlessness, fatigue, irritability, muscular aches, insomnia/sleep disorders, abdominal upsets, dizziness, irritability and poor concentration. At Jiva. Anxiety Disorder treatment begins with first identifying the root-cause of the disease and based on that a personalized course of treatment is designed.
Anxiety Disorder treatment in Ayurveda takes a comprehensive view of an individual's physical, emotional and spiritual conditions. These attributes have an effect on pranavata, a subsidiary of vatadosha which become aggravated with worry, anxiety and depression. Pranavata weakens the nervous system and triggers mental imbalance. It also weakens the neuro-hormonal system and nerve impulses. Ayurvedic treatment of anxiety disorder would involve curbing aggravated pranavata and increasing sattva guna, which envisages a stable and peaceful mind through self-realization and self-control, and appropriate changes in diet and lifestyle.
