• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is when someone has a persistent feeling of anxiety or dread. People with this disorder can experience it for months or years. Often, those in First Responder and Medical Professions experience anxiety due to the constant stress from those careers.  However, anxiety disorders can show in anyone that is having difficultly processing stressful situations.  About 3.1% of the U.S. populations experience GAD but less than half receive treatment.  GAD often co-occurs with major depression.
• Panic Disorder (PD) is another type of anxiety disorder usually related to experiencing high stress situations or phobias repeatedly. Panic attacks are mostly severe with disruptive symptoms and people with anxiety are at an increased risk of experiencing them. 2.7% of the U.S. population experiences PD.
• Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) also called social phobia, is an intense anxiety or fear of being judged, negatively evaluated, or rejected in a social or performance situation. This often causes those experiencing this disorder to avoid social situations and can have strong physical symptoms when placed in these feared situations. 6.8% of adults in the U.S. experience SAD and it usually begins in teenage years.
• People living with anxiety disorders, phobia disorders, and those dealing with panic attacks can experience many debilitating symptoms leading to further health concerns. When it comes to GAD, PD, SAD, and specific Phobias, women are twice as likely to be affected as men. (2. adaa.org)

There are several types of anxiety disorders each with their own symptoms. These are just a few of those symptoms:

• Nervousness or restlessness
• Uncontrollable worry or fear
• Difficulty concentrating
• Headaches
• Muscle and joint pain
• Difficulty sleeping 
• Nausea
• Irritability
• Rapid heart rate
• Sweating
• Uncontrolled shaking
  
  

Physical symptoms during a panic attack can include: pounding or racing heart, sweating, chills, trembling, difficulty breathing, chest pain, and more. They come on suddenly and involve intense and often overwhelming fear.

• Ketamine Infusions work by directly impacting the brain chemicals involved in anxiety. When receiving a ketamine infusion, the medication temporarily blocks the glutamate receptors in the brain thereby increasing the production of glutamate. Glutamate is the most abundant amino acid in the brain responsible for the optimization of chemicals that enable clear thinking and stable emotions. Ketamine also triggers neurogenesis neurological connections that have laid dormant due to aging, stress and other factors and causes neural pathways to re-activate in healthy ways that can reduce anxiety and reinvigorate your mind. Some ketamine infusion patients experience immense relief within hours of their treatment and for others, improvement shows within the weeks following their second or third infusion. To achieve the highest levels of benefit, our patients complete treatment based on specific protocol and guidelines established by researchers and tested over years of treatment. Your individual needs, symptoms, and goals of care will be addressed to determine your course of treatment.

1. 1. Harvard Medical School, 2007. National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). (2017, August 21).
      Retrieved from https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu
      Data Table 1: Lifetime prevalence DSM-IV/WMH-CIDI disorders by sex and cohort.
   2. ADAA Understanding Anxiety
   3. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics

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