Stress and Anxiety

1) What are the characteristics of Stress and anxiety?

Stress and anxiety have a lot of characteristics, but the most famous characteristics are the next ones:

• A faster heart rate
• Skipped heartbeats
• Rapid breathing
• Sweating
• Trembling
• Dizziness

These are the characteristics that you going to feel in your body if you have Stress and anxiety, but also there are another’s  characteristics that are psychological.

2) Why does it occur?

Stress occurs when a situation, event or thought becomes threatening, worrisome or anxiety-provoking.

Stress can be present when they need to adapt to something or change

Starting a new job or school

Moving to a new home

Getting married

Having a child

Breaking up with someone

An injury or illness to you, a friend, or a loved one is a common cause of stress. Feelings of stress and anxiety are common in people who feel depressed and sad.

But they are some drugs that cause Stress and anxiety:

Some inhaler medicines used to treat asthma

Thyroid drugs

Some diet pills

Some cold remedies

Caffeine, cocaine, alcohol, and tobacco products may also cause or make symptoms of stress or anxiety worse.

3) What are the most common symptoms?

We research a lot of symptoms in internet but we found the 10 most common of these illness:

·      Frequent headaches, jaw clenching or pain

·          Gritting, grinding teeth

·          Stuttering or stammering

·          Tremors, trembling of lips, hands

·          Neck ache, back pain, muscle spasms

·          Light headedness, faintness, dizziness

·          Ringing, buzzing or “popping sounds

·         Frequent blushing, sweating

·          Cold or sweaty hands, feet

·          Dry mouth, problems swallowing

4) What types of treatment or therapy can a patient use? How long they take? What are their pros and cons?

In the Alternative medicine the therapy that you can take if you have stress are:

Massage: this helps you in lowers blood pressure, reduces muscular tension and provides immediate relief. The effects are immediately, but the massage not eliminates the Stress and anxiety, just relax the illness. One advantage is that the massage is natural and the disadvantage is that only relax momentarily

Herbal remedies:  that has been specially formulated to quickly relieve the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks, these remedies are effectively relieve feelings of stress, tension and nervousness in both children and adults without any of the harmful side effects possible with prescription medication. These take a few months to make effect. An advantage is that is not addictive drug, eliminate completely the illness and they are nature, and a disadvantage are very expensive and they are very difficult to find.

5) What are the real possibilities of recovery if using this type of medicine?

The possibilities of recovery with alternative medicine are very effective, but the recovery takes months of treatment. The massage, for example, relaxes the discomfort for a short time, but not recovery completely the illness. Or herbal remedies that their process of healing are too long and that’s the reason because people don’t prefer these treatment.

6) What type of remedies can a patient take?

The patient can take a lot of remedies, but the best remedies are the natural remedies. For example:

·         Lavender

·         Passion flower

·         Lemon balm

·         Every types of  relaxes massage

·         Flower of Bach

·         Acupuncture

·         Yoga

7) What are the costs involved?

The costs of remedies and treatment depend the type of treatment that you going to take, for example: the massage treatment cost approximate 40,00$ US, the treatment of natural medicine cost approximate 35,00$ US, a therapy of acupuncture cost approximate 10,00$US for session  and psychology 80,00$US.

8) Do health program in Chile cover this treatment expenses? How about health programs of the USA?

Chile doesn’t cover these treatments because in Chile no such extreme cases of stress and Chile only cover illness more dangerous.

In United State cover this treatment because the 25% for the population of United State have stress and anxiety. This illness is frequently in United State for the life style of the population of this country. However, in Chile the life style are more “relaxes” than United State, so that mean that the level of work in Chile is more underdeveloped, because of that, the State don’t have the money and necessity for  subsidize that illness. But in USA, the situation is different, because the State have been receive alert of stress cases, and this situation  led to subsidize this illness.