Anxiety-depressive syndrome is a feeling of anxiety, melancholy, melancholy, discontent with life. The reasons for it can be either setbacks in personal life or in a career, and experienced unpleasant events that hit hard on the psyche. It is undesirable to engage in self-medication in the case of a depressive anxiety syndrome: it is worthwhile to see a doctor who will prescribe adequate treatment.
Anxiety-depressive syndrome - symptoms
Symptoms of depression are very many, but some of them resonate with the symptoms of other neuralgic disorders and diseases, which makes its diagnosis quite difficult. So, the main features:
- feelings of guilt, low self-esteem;
- suicidal ideas / thoughts of death;
- a feeling of shortness of breath;
- tachycardia, pain in the chest;
- weakness, fatigue;
- headache;
- sleep disturbance;
- yearning;
- decreased libido.
In addition, constipation, problems with urination, myalgia and many other symptoms may appear, which at first sight are difficult to reconcile with anxiety-depressive syndrome.
Treatment of anxiety-depressive syndrome
As a rule, after a complex diagnosis, the doctor prescribes complex treatment, which can include both
The methods of influence on the psyche are aimed primarily at correcting self-esteem, increasing personal effectiveness, and developing skills for controlling emotions, through which a person can persistently perceive stress without falling into depression.
Drug treatment, as a rule, involves the use of tranquilizers or anxiolytics (anti-anxiety drugs). Many doctors in parallel prescribe and use of herbal preparations.
The main thing in this case is not to self-medicate, but to visit a psychotherapist. Independent actions in this case can only exacerbate the problem.