The experience of worry and stress is typical of everyday life, but when worry and stress become excessive and disruptive to your daily routine, professional evaluation and treatment may be indicated. Interventional Psychiatry Group in Memphis, Tennessee, treats many different anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and agoraphobia.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with excessive anxiety, worry, and apprehensive expectations about daily obligations such as work or school. With GAD, controlling the worry can feel impossible. Common symptoms of GAD include restlessness, feeling keyed up or on edge, fatigue, difficulty concentrating or mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance.
Separation anxiety disorder is associated with excessive fear and anxiety about separating from attachment figures (such as a parent or guardian). Separation anxiety, while developmentally appropriate for children between the ages of 18 months and 3 years old, is considered a disorder when symptoms persist and occur beyond the developmentally appropriate age range.
Common symptoms of separation anxiety disorder include excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or attachment figures, excessive worry about losing attachment figures, nightmares about separation, and complaints of physical symptoms such as headaches and stomachaches when separation occurs or is anticipated.
Specific phobia is associated with extreme anxiety surrounding a specific object or situation. Examples of specific phobias could be situations such as flying on an airplane, exposure to heights or animals, or medical phobias such as receiving an injection or seeing blood.
Common symptoms of a specific phobia include instantaneous fear or anxiety when exposed to the object or situation, avoidance of the feared object or situation, and impairment in daily functioning due to fear and avoidance.
Social anxiety disorder is associated with excessive anxiety regarding the possible scrutiny by others in one or more social settings. Common symptoms of social anxiety disorder include fear of being evaluated negatively by others, avoidance of the feared social setting, or enduring the social situation with extreme anxiety. The anxiety in social anxiety disorder is always unequal to the actual threat of the feared social situation.
Panic disorder is associated with recurrent and unexpected panic attacks. Panic attacks present with immediate and unforeseen high levels of fear. Common symptoms of panic disorder include palpitations, increased heart rate, sweating, shaking, feeling short of breath, choking sensations, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, light-headedness, chills, or sensations of heat.
Agoraphobia is associated with excessive fear surrounding the use of public transportation, being in open or enclosed spaces, standing in line or within a crowd, or leaving the home. The feared situation almost always causes anxiety and avoidance and is out of proportion to the threat posed by the feared situation.
Our board-certified providers at Interventional Psychiatry Group diagnose anxiety disorders by listening to your symptoms and past emotional experiences, with consideration for your medical history, family history, and genetic predispositions.
Interventional Psychiatry Group offers many treatment options for anxiety disorders, including prescription medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and more. To ensure you receive the most effective medication, Interventional Psychiatry providers are proud to offer GeneSight® testing. With a cheek swab and analysis, our providers can customize your treatment plan based on how you metabolize certain medications.
Alternatively, Interventional Psychiatry Group offers BrainsWay Deep TMS™ (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation). TMS provides painless pulses to areas of the brain that are responsible for anxiety symptoms via a coil in a helmet. TMS is non-invasive and non-surgical, and it is safe to resume daily activities such as driving immediately after treatment. Visit our BrainsWay Deep TMS™ for more information.
If our providers believe you would be best served by psychotherapy, a referral can be made.
Anxiety can be isolating; the Interventional Psychiatry Group can help. Call Interventional Psychiatry Group to schedule an initial psychiatric evaluation or request to schedule by completing our online booking form today.
The information provided above is for educational purposes only. Professional evaluation is required to make a formal diagnosis.