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How can Anxiety Disorder be treated ?

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 Simple listening is an efficient way of reducing anxiety.

 Enriching the patient's relationship with friends and relatives is likely to help.

 Graded exposure -which starts with exposure to the least threatening stress and slowly increasing the levels of stress that can be handled by the patient.

 Anxiolytics may be indicated along with counseling.

 Progressive relaxation training - tensing and relaxing individual muscle groups, deep breathing exercises may also be employed.

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Posted by:  jkgoyel  Posted on: 05/06/2010
Is "Anxiety" a Psychiatric illness with other illness also is subject to Exclusion in Paying Claim or cashless Facility even though the Policy is continuously held since 2002 ? Kindly reply & suggest Website or Provide Link in where such Law, Act & Regulations can be Read. where it is mentioned ?



Posted by:  padam  Posted on: 12/02/2008
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