Patients with anxiety disorders can feel optimistic about overcoming their illnesses.
Effective treatments are available and new therapies are being discovered.
These treatments are prescribed alone or in combination. Although not cures, both treatments are effective in relieving the symptoms of anxiety disorders. A psychiatrist will conduct a thorough diagnostic evaluation that includes an interview and review of medical records. The evaluation serves to identify specific anxiety disorders and to determine whether other medical conditions coexist that may contribute to, or mimic, the anxiety disorder. After a diagnosis is made, a physician will prescribe therapies to treat the anxiety disorder and, when necessary, co-occurring illnesses.