More than 182 thousand Peruvians have been diagnosed with anxiety

According to Essalud, anxiety and depression disorders are common.

So far in the current year 2024, the Peruvian Social Health Insurance (Essalud) identified 182.399 cases of anxiety. In this situation alarming e unsettling, the current management of Essalud, through its centers Primary Care, is strengthening the prevention policy. This focuses on the early diagnosis and the proper treatment in the services of psychology.

For this purpose, they offer workshops y therapies what Empower the patient to be able to recognize y manage are anxiety. Among other things, this kind of disorders They are usually seen often, which requires a good healing with the aim of being able to fight.

Read Also:

Minsa will offer vaccination services at the 2024 Book Fair

Given this situation, Dr. Beatrice Macciotta He spoke up and said the following: «At the Rebagliati Hospital, in the Mental Health Department, Gestalt exercises, music therapy, play therapy, psychotherapy, drawing therapy, relaxation sessions, integration techniques and various activities for the management of anxiety and depression crises in patients are carried out», pointed out the psychiatrist of this health center.

The anxiety:

As we all know, feeling occasional anxiety It is a normal part of life. However, those who suffer from anxiety disorders experience concerns y intense, excessive fears y persistent ante everyday situations. Therefore, these mental disorders They usually include recurrent episodes of anxiety extrema y fear or terror that reach their Maximum point in a few minutes, known as panic attacks.

These feelings of anxiety y panic interfere with the daily activitiesthey result difficult of check because they are disproportionate in relation to the real danger and can persist during long periods. In an effort to want to avoid these feelings, people may Dodge some places or situations.

«The person imagines episodes and overthinks the consequences. Many patients have the sensation of tightness in the chest, a lump in the throat, trembling in the arms, numbness, cramps, shortness of breath or inability to swallow, palpitations, and even think they are going to die of a heart attack,» explained Fatty.

Therefore, it must be taken into account that the symptoms of the anxiety can manifest from birth. However, these can extend until the stage of the adulthood.

Anxiety and depression:

According to the data promoted by Essalud, half of the 182,399 cases of anxiety presents a diagnosis of mixed disorder of anxiety and depression at the same time. The mixed anxiety-depressive disorder is the category that describes patients who present both a depressive disorder as symptoms of anxiety simultaneously. However, none of them clearly predominates or has the sufficient intensity as for justify and separate diagnosis.

Los symptoms of the mixed anxiety-depressive disorder They are characterized by a persistent combination o recurrent of depression y anxiety which lasts at least a month. This picture is accompanied by additional symptoms as difficulty concentrating or remembering, procrastination, sleep disturbances, fatigue, irritability, worry, crying easily, hypervigilance, feeling of imminent danger to oneself or loved ones, hopelessness, pessimism about the future, and low self-esteem or feelings of worthlessness.

Finally, we can ensure that people suffering from this mixed disorder They experience it as a distressing situationIt is not unusual for this to lead to increased irritability, self-harming thoughts, substance abuse as escape mechanism, deterioration in work or social environments, insomnia, excessive food intake and hopelessness. All this is like a cumulus in which according to Essalud, los older adults are the most likely to suffer from this issue. They are part of the vulnerability group; which results in essential cure these disorders with treatments that, in the long run, they are effective.