Homoeopathic Perspectives in the Management of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are very common nowadays. Symptoms can be mild or severe that cause great personal distress, and which impair social and occupational function. Core features include excessive fear and anxiety or avoidance of perceived threats that are persistent and impairing. Anxiety disorders involve dysfunction in brain circuits that respond to danger. The need for treatment is determined by the severity and persistence of symptoms, the level of associated disability and impact on everyday life, the presence of co-existing depressive symptoms, and other features such as a good response to or poor tolerability of previous treatment approaches.焦虑障碍（Anxiety disorders）如今已极为常见。其症状程度不一，轻者可引发显著的个人痛苦体验，重者则会损害社会交往与职业功能。该类障碍的核心特征为持续且具有损害性的过度恐惧、焦虑，或是对感知到的威胁采取回避行为。焦虑障碍的发病机制涉及应对危险刺激的脑环路功能异常。是否需要治疗，需综合考量症状的严重程度与持续时间、相关功能残疾水平及对日常生活的影响、是否存在共病抑郁症状，以及既往治疗方案的应答效果与耐受性优劣等因素进行判定。