Anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders, affecting over 18% or 40 million adults age 18 and older in the United States. According to “The Economic Burden of Anxiety Disorders,” a study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year. This statistics show us that anxiety is steadily becoming ‘the mental disease of the year’.

There are hundreds of different treatments for anxiety these days. There are so many choices of how to deal with anxiety that it can be difficult to figure out what’s best for you.

Some of the treatments for anxiety include medications. While anxiety is defined as a ‘mental disorder’, all of us suffer from it at one time or another, just as with depression. Some people suffer more due to an imbalance of neurotransmitters and therefore may have a biologically based anxiety disorder. For the rest of us, its just one of those things you have to deal with every now and then.

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