Currently a large percentage of today's youth are having to deal with anxiety. Not just like anxiously waiting for something, I am talking about such things as GAD (general anxiety disorder) OCD (Obsessive Compulsive disorder) SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Anxiety is closely linked to Depression and often the medications are used to treat both Depression and Anxiety (i.e. Zoloft). Does anyone here have and Anxiety Disorder?? What are your opinions on Anxiety and today's youth?? Are there any good websites out there on this topic??
i have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, general anxiety disorder,OCD,ADHD, n ODD among other things and my parents didnt believe any of the diagnoses's....they only think i suffer from depression...i think thts the problem with a lot of parents today, they want their kids to be "normal" so they deny it and only make the problem worse by trying to hide and do nothing about the problem
Anxiety is sad but what can we do? Nuttin. Most of anxiety and stress is from school, work, and relationships! lol. people just need 2 get happy. live life to the fullest. you dont always need drugs 2 solve problems.
I'm not against drugs, but I do think people should try other options first.
I was originally diagnosed with OCD, but now it looks more like GAD and clinical depression. I've been in therapy for almost six years, I think, but it did go through a few therapists before I found the right one. (I hate psyciatrists; I only use mine for meds, I do talk therapy with my psycologist.) I've gone through a few drugs over the years, Prozac for depression, Buspar for anxiety, then I switched to Zoloft and eventually dropped the Buspar. At some point Zoloft just stopped working so I'm on Effexor now. I also took another antianxiety...lorazopam I think, and it actually made me *more* anxious.
Anyway, I don't know why there seems to be more anxiety these days...it could be the dependance on technology to some extent; electronics, drugs, more information...
I take Zoloft and Geodon for an array of disorders... anxiety, depression, OCD, and anorexia among them. I'm doing pretty well right now, but it's taken a long time and a lot of therapy as well. I don't think medication alone can do much-- it just aids the process.
Zoloft and Geodon work well for me, but I feel pretty dependant on them. Whenever I forget to take them for a day, my mental processes just shut down entirely. And I'm now an insomniac without my Geodon, which is a heavy sedative I take at night.
The prospect of being weaned off them is frightening.
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Lets just say out of the million plus teens who claim to have anxiety problems, only 40% of the kids actually have problems. Most of the others are just doing it for attention.
yes, anxiety is a huge problem.,. I have anxiety myslef I think every teenager does at some point in their lives. I did go to a counsler for awhile.. but I needed to be on medicine. and man I feel so much better.. every now and then i get a little nervous but that is life.. no medicine can fully cure us. I think that we as teens should talk more openly about this subject in schools. As a result, there might not be as many problems among kids, people will open up more b.c they know the person sitting next to them has the dame feelings just as them. Not everyone likes to share their problems.. but to atleast spread the word around that there is help out there. and they don't have to take medicine for it, some people just may need someone to talk to about it on a daily or weekely basis. THis is how I feel about this... any1 want to respond. go right ahead.
I think anxiety is a big problem among today's teens. While a lot of ppl are misdiagnosed, a lot of ppl are undiagnosed period. I have tourettes and OCD and am not on medication but its biological so meds would probably help. Does anyone have these and/or know which medications work?
quote:I agree anxiety is a problem among youth but maybe we should try talking or something before resulting to druging ourselves with drugs that could have adverse side effects. Thats all I'm saying.
No argument from me on this one. I hated the drugs they put me on and went through hell and high water to get to a point where I could function without them, but in a lot of cases they really are necessary. Especially for conditions that are biological rather than circumstantial, as some disorders that often cause or accompany anxiety are.
___The old belief that OCD was the result of life experiences has been weakened before the growing evidence that biological factors are a primary contributor to the disorder. The fact that OCD patients respond well to specific medications that affect the neurotransmitter serotonin suggests the disorder has a neurobiological basis. For that reason, OCD is no longer attributed only to attitudes a patient learned in childhood--for example, an inordinate emphasis on cleanliness, or a belief that certain thoughts are dangerous or unacceptable. Instead, the search for causes now focuses on the interaction of neurobiological factors and environmental influences, as well as cognitive processes.
___OCD is sometimes accompanied by depression, eating disorders, substance abuse disorder, a personality disorder, attention deficit disorder, or another of the anxiety disorders. Co-existing disorders can make OCD more difficult both to diagnose and to treat.
___In an effort to identify specific biological factors that may be important in the onset or persistence of OCD, NIMH-supported investigators have used a device called the positron emission tomography (PET) scanner to study the brains of patients with OCD. Several groups of investigators have obtained findings from PET scans suggesting that OCD patients have patterns of brain activity that differ from those of people without mental illness or with some other mental illness. Brain-imaging studies of OCD showing abnormal neurochemical activity in regions known to play a role in certain neurological disorders suggest that these areas may be crucial in the origins of OCD. There is also evidence that treatment with medications or behavior therapy induce changes in the brain coincident with clinical improvement.
___Recent preliminary studies of the brain using magnetic resonance imaging showed that the subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorder had significantly less white matter than did normal control subjects, suggesting a widely distributed brain abnormality in OCD. Understanding the significance of this finding will be further explored by functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies (Jenike et al, 1996).
___Symptoms of OCD are seen in association with some other neurological disorders. There is an increased rate of OCD in people with Tourette's syndrome, an illness characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations. Investigators are currently studying the hypothesis that a genetic relationship exists between OCD and the tic disorders.
___Other illnesses that may be linked to OCD are trichotillomania (the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, eyebrows or other body hair), body dysmorphic disorder (excessive preoccupation with imaginary or exaggerated defects in appearance), and hypochondriasis (the fear of having--despite medical evaluation and reassurance--a serious disease). Genetic studies of OCD and other related conditions may enable scientists to pinpoint the molecular basis of these disorders.
___Other theories about the causes of OCD focus on the interaction between behavior and the environment and on beliefs and attitudes, as well as how information is processed. These behavioral and cognitive theories are not incompatible with biological explanations.
I have an anxiety problem. I used to have really bad attacks. In the middle of class, when I was with friends, on vacation, etc. I remember, I went on a vacation with my friends to Atlanta. The entire time I was there (6 days) it was like one big 6 day long anxiety attack. It was horrible. To top it all off I felt so sick I didn't eat one thing the entire time I was there. I used to have anxiety attacks when I was in class too. In the 9 week period I left the class 4 or 5 times because I was having anxiety attacks.
Zoloft is good and all but i had a bad experience with it. I had a nervus break down after taking it. I agree anxiety is a problem among youth but maybe we should try talking or something before resulting to druging ourselves with drugs that could have adverse side effects. Thats all I'm saying.
Hey, I never said people who want Zoloft shouldn't have it. I was just making fun of the person who was talking about the contracts. I mean, legally speaking, handing out Zoloft is a Bad Thing. As someone who's been on it, though, I really don't see the problem as long as they don't OD and kill themselves. Then, you might have a problem.
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