Anxiety

What Is Anxiety?

Anxiety Treatment in Salt Lake City

Imagine being on the edge of a frighteningly steep cliff. Your adrenaline rushes, and your cortisol levels spike, causing palpitations, sweaty palms, and muscle tension. While this might be exciting for a moment, the real enjoyment often comes when you step back from the danger, viewing your adventure through a lens of calm, safety, and emotional control. This is what it feels like undergoing anxiety treatment in Salt Lake City.

For those living with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), they experience this “edge” almost continuously. The heightened physical and emotional symptoms that should be occasional become an everyday reality, with the relief of stepping back into “safety” being elusive. Conditions such as insomnia, fatigue, chronic musculoskeletal pain, chest tightness, and ongoing gastrointestinal problems can all be traced back to GAD.

Those with GAD may develop unhealthy coping mechanisms to alter their emotional state, including complete avoidance of triggering events, withdrawing socially/emotionally, or turning to vices.

Through generalized anxiety disorder treatment at our Salt Lake City practice, we can help you step back from anxiety and live more peacefully and steady. After determining what type of anxiety you struggle with, healing may be achieved through developing healthy coping skills, implementing therapeutic techniques, and balancing medications or natural remedies.

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How Can Ketamine Help with Anxiety

Ketamine and Spravato (Esketamine) are in the beginning phases of study for the treatment of anxiety disorders; however, depression and anxiety are often comorbid conditions (meaning they occur together). Does your depression make you feel anxious because you feel you are not living up to a certain potential? Does your anxiety cause feelings of depression from the chronic withdrawal and fear you face?

In regards to Ketamine, we have found that it can profoundly improve anxiety symptoms. As a generalized anxiety disorder treatment, it can help you develop new ways of thinking about the worry that seems to stick in your mind. It can show you a way through or around what previously seemed like an insurmountable obstacle. There is good evidence showing how ketamine treatment can help drastically reduce social phobias and social anxiety disorder.

We have seen Ketamine treatments change the lives of those struggling with anxiety disorders, and with the right therapeutic support, we recommend it as an effective anxiety treatment in Salt Lake City.

FAQ

Have you felt an excessive amount of worry or feeling “on edge” that is interfereing with the way you want to live your life? Has this occured for more than 50% of the time, for over 6 months? Do you notice that you withdraw from anxiety-provoking situations more than you’d like? If so, let’s schedule a consultation to talk about how you can feel more at peace.
What treatments help with anxiety? We have found that therapy, lifestyle modifications, developing healthy coping skills and medications (including ketamine and Spravato) have brought healing for most people.

Our utmost goal is overall and life-long mental wellness for our patients. Overtreatment, substance addiction and numbing out all feeling is not our approach. We will always encourage an appropriate level of balance with all of our treatment plans, and it is our commitment to guide you with the safest and most up to date practices.

Absolutely. We help with all subtypes of anxiety. If it is affecting your ability to live the way you would like, it is worth talking about.

Step back from the edge and improve your quality of life with proven, effective anxiety treatment at Lone Peak Psychiatry in Salt Lake City. Don’t wait—contact us today.