Anxiety

With more than 20 million Americans living with an anxiety disorder, anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States. At Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry, Tammi Bancroft, FNP-C, provides expert diagnosis and personalized treatment for anxiety disorders to help you better manage negative thoughts and emotions. Tammi offers in-person and virtual care from the practice's main location in Colorado and also provides virtual appointments for patients throughout Arizona. Call the office or request an appointment online today to schedule a visit.

What is anxiety?

Anxiety disorders are mental illnesses in which intrusive negative thoughts and feelings lead to excessive worries and fears that interfere with your behavior and overall quality of life. Nervousness and fears are normal human emotions that keep you safe and motivate you. However, if those fears and worries are so prevalent that they disrupt your activities and quality of life, you may have a more severe condition. 

Tammi treats several types of anxiety disorders, including:

Generalized anxiety disorder

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) causes intense and often irrational worries about day-to-day responsibilities such as work, family, health, and routine tasks, like car repairs.            

Panic disorder

Panic disorder causes panic attacks, periods of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms such as a racing heartbeat, dizziness, shortness of breath, and chest pain. Panic attacks are often frightening and disorienting, and you may feel like you’re having a heart attack. 

Social anxiety disorder

If you have social anxiety disorder, you feel nervous and fearful in social situations, including one-on-one interactions, group settings, and public speaking. Social anxiety disorder may be rooted in fears of rejection or humiliation.

Specific phobias

Phobias are pervasive and irrational fears of a particular object or situation that can lead to abnormal behaviors. Some of the more common phobias include heights, flying, and insects, although you can develop a phobia to just about anything. 

What are the symptoms of anxiety?

Anxiety causes a wide range of physical and emotional symptoms that vary in severity. Common symptoms of anxiety include:

• Feelings of nervousness, worry, or fear
• Insomnia
• Heart palpitations
• Sweating
• Tightness in your chest
• Nausea
• Shortness of breath

If you feel like anxiety is disrupting your life, contact Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry for an appointment today.  

How is anxiety treated?

At Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry, Tammi provides customized mental health services to help you learn to manage your anxiety and regain your quality of life. She begins with a comprehensive virtual assessment, which helps her create a treatment plan to address your specific needs. 

While every patient receives customized care, treatment often combines medication to alleviate your symptoms with therapy to help you learn techniques to deal with your negative thoughts and feelings and reduce their impact on your life.

Call Healing Hope Suboxone, Addiction Recovery & Psychiatry, or request an appointment online today for personalized assessments and treatments for anxiety.