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Article: Do you suffer high anxiety? research reveals more about how stress affects body and mind. Here is the rundown on causes and therapies.
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- VFW Magazine
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- January 1, 2003
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Physicians are seeing an unprecedented number of patients with anxiety disorders. So many, in fact, that tranquilizers have become the fifth most commonly prescribed drug, far ahead of any antibiotic or birth control pill.
Are we entering the "Age of Anxiety" (after depression in the Nineties and schizophrenia in the Eighties)?
It's not certain whether more of us suffer from anxiety, or that "we may just be less tolerant of feeling uneasy," says Dr. Brian Doyle, psychiatrist at Georgetown University. That makes it important to know about therapies for anxiety attacks as well as the side effects (sexual and otherwise) of drugs like Prozac.
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