Anxiety Disorders and Medical Comorbidity: Treatment Implications

Association of Psychometric Indices and Normal Electrodiagnostic Studies in Referral for Suspected Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

“…They are usually chronic and persistent, affecting the quality of life but are nevertheless regarded as evidence of a medical condition. This may sometimes indicate a misinterpretation of symptoms in the context of an anxiety disorder, as recently discussed by Meuret et al (16). Subjective neurological symptoms can simply co-exist as comorbid physical symptoms with mood or anxiety disorders, or they may be the only manifestations of a psychosomatic syndrome (17).…”

Mental Health First Aid Training: A Study of Community Members’ Pre and Post-training Responses to a 17-Item Questionnaire

“…According to this study, community members' responses improved, mild to significant levels, after MHFA training and substantiated the findings of other researches; evidently patients with mental disorders do not get proper medical care [34][35][36]; exercise helps improvement of mild to moderate anxiety and depression [67][68][69]83]; MH workers should encourage rather than force a patient with mental disorders to seek help in mental health settings [1,[43][44][45][46]; many mental disorders including anxiety disorders, depression and also other disorders improve with non-drug therapies including CBT [39][40][41][52][53][54][55], and remit with antidepressants and anxiolytics [1,50,51]; anxiety and panic disorders do not cause medical diseases but often present with symptoms micking medical diseases [58,59]; strong approval or disapproval of patients aggressive behaviors due to culturally unacceptable lifestyles is against prevailing norms and human rights, and of course prejudiced and stigmatized [1,[43][44][45][46]; exploring non-judgmentally suicidal behavior including indicators of suicide does not increase the risk of suicide rather prevent it [28,[31][32][33][60][61][62]83,84]; immediate discussion and debriefing individuals with acute psychosis due to acute trauma or othe...…”

“…Notably, panic attacks, acute and severe anxiety often does not cause organic disorders but patients with acute panic and its respiratory subtype, and other severe anxiety disorders often presents with chest pain, fear, dyspnea, palpitations, perspiration, gut symptoms, tremors and feeling of death with normal angiography and comorbid with medical diseases including asthma, diabetes, coronary artery diseases, fibromyalgia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, irritable bowel syndrome and require integrated psychiatric and medical interventions [58,59]. The participants' correct (D, S12) and wrong (A) responses improved significantly (<0.05) and increased insignificantly (>0.05), respectively and DNK responses decreased significantly (<0.05).…”

Endotoxicosis After Psychological Correction

“…Psychological stress (PS) leads to the accumulation of individual psychotraumatic experience and negatively affects the functional state of a person at the organismic level. That is, PS induces psychotrauma, leading to psychological (Siegel et al, 2018;Uddin et al, 2018) and somatic (Meuret & Tunnell, 2020;Wong et al, 2019) diseases. The response to PS depends on the state of the hypothalamic-pituitary system, the aggregate of excitation in the limbic system, the reticular formation and the amygdala (Barrett et al, 2019;Hoemann et al, 2020) and the correspondence of CNS resources to it (Brosschot et al, 2016).…”