Magnesium (and Other Vitamins)
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Posted on 18-12-2022 11:50 AM
There are a handful of vitamins, herbal remedies and essential oils out there which may promote sleep. 24 these include:
magnesium – magnesium is one of the minerals needed by the body to make melatonin, a hormone linked to sleep. Valerian – valerian has been used for hundreds of years as a natural sleep aid and is thought to be a beneficial treatment for things such as anxiety and stress.
Based on traditional use only. Lavender – this fragrant flower has also long been a sleep aid, with some studies showing lavender’s strong scent can make you feel more relaxed after just 30 minutes.
The Treatment of Anxiety
You may start by seeing your primary care provider to find out if your anxiety could be related to your physical health. He or she can check for signs of an underlying medical condition that may need treatment. However, you may need to see a mental health specialist if you have severe anxiety. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health conditions. A psychologist and certain other mental health professionals can diagnose anxiety and provide counseling (psychotherapy). To help diagnose an anxiety disorder, your mental health provider may:
give you a psychological evaluation. This involves discussing your thoughts, feelings and behavior to help pinpoint a diagnosis and check for related complications.
Like every other disorder, anxiety needs treatment when, through frequency or intensity, or both, worry interferes with functioning. Anxiety encourages the maladaptive response of avoidance of uncomfortable situations , limiting experience and, often, enjoyment of life. Worries can consume an inordinate amount of time, day and night, disrupting concentration, preventing sleep, and just creating all-around suffering. And like most other mental health disorders, anxiety is isolating, discouraging the very contact that counters anxiety’s pervasive sense of threat. As a preoccupation with some imagined future bad outcome, anxiety keeps people from enjoying the present and, perhaps more cruelly, finding a solution to whatever problem is the source of worry—when, in fact, freeing up mental space to engage in immediate activities is more likely to create the conditions for resolving the worry, one of the major goals of treatment.
When to see your GP
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Online therapies are easy to access and can be done from home from anywhere in australia. Usually you don’t need a referral from a gp. Find a range of online programs at the australian government's head to health website.
I have struggled on and off with depression most of my life. My gp has prescribed antidepressants and a short course of cbt, but they haven’t really helped. I was a bit nervous about paying privately, but it was well worth it. I saw a psychiatrist who obviously really understands depression and actually changed my diagnosis. Now i know what i am dealing with, i can find a treatment that will work. Thank you.
there are lots of self-help methods, often based on cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt). Cbt helps you to rethink negative thoughts and behaviours. Non-facilitated self-help – this involves using information provided by the nhs to help yourself guided self-help – a trained professional will take you through the information psycho-educational groups – in a group, you’ll learn about your symptoms and how to manage them.