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How can acupuncture help you fight anxiety and depression?

Written by bocaacupuncture

The difference between anxiety and anxiety disorder

Anxiety is a normal, transient human reaction to the expectation that everything should unfold according to plan on a daily basis.

Anxiety disorder is a mental health illness, which causes nervousness, and other related feelings and symptoms to last for a long time and impede an individual’s ability to perform as a normal human being.

Therefore, persistent, severe, and incapacitating anxiousness is undoubtedly an indication of anxiety disorder, which must be promptly, properly, and adequately addressed before it starts affecting patients’ well-being, and consequently, their personalities.

There are many different kinds of anxiety disorders, such as social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, general anxiety disorder, and various phobia-related disorders.

Causes and symptoms of anxiety disorder:

There are several causes of anxiety disorders, including stress due to illness, trauma, personality and mental disorders, substance and alcohol abuse, or heredity from either of the parents.

In critical anxiety disorder cases, patients lose control over themselves, experience erratic behavior, suffer from physical symptoms, such as chest pain, choking sensations, palpitations, and may experience a loss of motor control, and incoherent speech.

All of these disorders are extremely crippling, and harm one’s self-esteem, and self-confidence. They can also cause severe psychosomatic symptoms, such as ED, difficulty to breath, chest pain and heart palpitation. People, who have severe anxiety symptoms, have difficulty to drive on the bridge or enjoy daily life.

What Treatment is available for anxiety disorder?

These days, acupuncture anxiety therapy from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a very popular alternative treatment due to its effectiveness in eliminating weakening, and impairing symptoms, thereby restoring patients’ health.

What is acupuncture anxiety therapy?

At the Boca and Boston Acupuncture Clinic, physicians trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provide acupuncture anxiety therapy, after determining the patient’s medical history and looking at their tongue and pulses.

Following the patient’s case study, the acupuncturist maps the important acupuncture points on the meridian (energy pathways), and other locations, such as the insides of the wrists, between the eyes, and the ears.

Ultra-thin acupuncture needles are then inserted into specific acupuncture points on the energy pathways known as Meridians, along with the previously mentioned points. This helps to restore balance to the autonomic nervous system, which aids in relaxation, and eliminates the dominance of the sympathetic nervous system.

Following twice a week acupuncture treatment, patients experience respite from anxiety disorder(s), and its related distressed and disturbed state(s) of mind, leaving them feeling happy, and with a sense of well-being.

Based on individual cases, the acupuncturists may also administer doses of various herbal concoctions, which can improve the function of digestive and nervous systems.

Moving forward in the acupuncture anxiety therapy, the acupuncturist will also prescribe a controlled diet and a set of acupressure points to be done in a meditative state of mind, to maximize the effect of acupuncture on rebalancing the nervous system and strengthening the function of adrenal gland.

Using acupuncture anxiety therapy treatments, including the use of herbs, combined with dietary food intake, TCM doctors help patients embark on a healthier life journey, and a joyful state of being, free from anxiety and panic attack, without the long term use of anti-depressants.

Chronic anxiety disorder needs to be avoided combing medication and acupuncture; as anxiety is said to be a rocking chair that takes you nowhere and can compromise your immune function, leading cancer and heart problems! If you have high stress job, you may need to have acupuncture to calm down your nervous system every two weeks so you can avoid panic attack condition. Instead of searching acupuncturist near me, you may need to use key words such as acupuncture for anxiety near me to get the right acupuncturists, who have more than 30 years of experiences to treat anxiety disorder.

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