On this occasion we bring up a topic that, unfortunately, is becoming an increasingly widespread health problem. Anxiety and how acupuncture can help you alleviate its effects.
Nowadays, more and more people suffer from anxiety from an earlier age and more and more often, the good news that we want to share with you is that acupuncture can be applied to treat anxiety.
In principle, anxiety is nothing more than a defense mechanism of our own body in situations that we understand as threatening.
Where does so much anxiety come from?
Today’s society may be more demanding, demanding that we do more, that we have more, that we travel more, that we work more… All this seasoned with the pressure that many people, especially young people, suffer due to social networks. A life of appearances in which unattainable perfection is the only goal. And of course, the word itself says it, if it is unattainable, it should not be a goal.
Because when we chase something that we can never achieve, the only thing we will get is frustration. Things may have always been this way and now we simply have less effective tools to deal with problems and, sometimes, we even lack these tools. In any case, anxiety is here, it seems to stay.
At Zenia Natural we want to tell you how we can help you. Do you want to improve your quality of life and reduce anxiety? Keep reading and discover why acupuncture is one of the treatments we know best and that has a high rate of satisfactory results.
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Surely more than one or two symptoms that we are going to describe below sound familiar to you. Anxiety, as we said at the beginning, is a defense mechanism. It is triggered when our body feels in danger due to one situation or another.
So is anxiety the same as fear? No. Fear is produced by an identifiable danger for which we can prepare a response. Anxiety is caused by a threat to which we are not able to respond.
It is characterized by negative thoughts about a real or unreal element. In the sense that sometimes that worry is about something that doesn’t even happen.
The most common symptoms of anxiety are:
- Nervousness
- Negative thoughts on loop
- Apathy
- Insomnia
- Nightmares
- Agoraphobia
- Feelings of deep sadness
- Nausea
- Lack or excess of appetite
- Shaking chills
Anxiety often goes hand in hand with depression. Word that scares us and stigmatizes us, but that we should know to see it coming and work as best as possible on our improvement.
What can we do to reduce anxiety?
We always mention that each person is different, and in this case it was no different. Depending on our personal process, we can work on our anxiety in one way or another. At least try to alleviate those symptoms that can be very annoying and even disabling.
Our first advice is to go to a mental health professional. In recent years, mental health is no longer “that which is not talked about.” Now it is a very important part of our health, which we should take care of as much as we take care of the rest of our body.
And thank goodness! Knowing where our anxiety problem comes from will help us find the best way to approach treatment. Hence our recommendation to visit a specialist who will determine whether anxiety should be treated pharmacologically or not.
In any case, there is a treatment that we know well and that gives great results in cases of anxiety. Yeah! Acupuncture.
Scientific evidence
It has been shown by several scientific studies that acupuncture is a method to take into account when it comes to anxiety. Acupuncture is capable of reducing anxiety in specific situations.
What kind of situations? Those that we know are going to happen and that produce that state of worry that we are not able to control. For example, a visit to the dentist, a gynecological examination, surgery… In addition, acupuncture works immediately.
As? Well, reducing the level of cortisone in the body and inhibiting its activity. And we already know from other articles that you can read here, that cortisone does not usually come with calm and stability.
When is it recommended to start treating anxiety with acupuncture?
As soon as we identify it. We should not confuse a state of nervousness caused naturally by an event, situation or person, with anxiety. For example, nerves before an exam? Normal. Nervous before your wedding? Normal. Now, if these situations cause you to hyperventilate, they take away your sleep, your desire to eat, they make you sweat, you can only think that everything is going to go wrong and you don’t know how to get out of them… it sounds more like anxiety.
As always when we talk about Natural Medicine, we must remember that the person is treated as a whole. We will not only focus on relieving symptoms, but on treating the patient who suffers from them in depth to ensure that the results last as long as possible over time.
Depending on the process you are going through and the level of anxiety you are suffering, the therapist will set guidelines, such as number of sessions, time between each one of them and other recommendations to follow.
Acupuncture is a technique that has been proven numerous times to be beneficial when it comes to treating sleep problems. Its success in terms of relaxation and improvement of mood is also undoubted. And as we have seen in previous sections, these are some of the symptoms of going through an anxiety process.
Acupuncture in Zenia natural
It is very common to feel that there are situations that overwhelm us and that we cannot deal with on our own. When you feel like something is worrying you “more than usual,” let yourself be helped. Trust this ancient technique and you will see results immediately.
Come to Zenia Natural and ask about our treatments, consult with our acupuncture and TCM specialist to find the best way to regain your balance and well-being. And don’t forget to read our article about winter time on our blog again!
Follow our advice so that this change does not affect you more than necessary. Any questions? Book your appointment and let us do what we do best, take care of you.