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BEYONDBLUE
beyondblue is a support network to help people who suffer anxiety and depression. They aim to raise community awareness of depression, anxiety and suicide prevention, reduce the stigma surrounding these issues and to encourage people to seek support when they need it. beyondblue works in partnership with health services, schools, workplaces, universities, media and community organisations, as well as people living with depression/anxiety and their careers to decrease the percentage of people who suffer these mental illnesses. To promote this organisation, beyondblue, as said before, works with schools, universities, workplaces etc. They go to these places to advise people to seek help from their services. There is a range of ways you can contact beyondblue if you are suffering anxiety and depression. You can visit their website https://www.beyondblue.org.au/home for more information about depression, anxiety and related disorders and also available treatments and where to get help or contact them by email, chat online or easily call them.

ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA
Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria (ADAVIC) is a not-for-profit association providing support, information and resources to assist people who are suffering from or affected by anxiety and related issues. They aim to play a significant role in supporting individuals affected by anxiety, depression, and related issues. ADAVIC acts as an entry-level service with “grass-roots” support and resources for a huge range of issues an individual who has or is suffering. To promote this association, ADAVIC uses social media accounts and schools to spread the word about mental illnesses. There are many ways you can contact ADAVIC for example: website https://www.adavic.org.au/PG-adavic-contact-us.aspx , phone them, social media and email. In advance ADAVIC hold community support groups in an office to help Victorians get through their mental illnesses.

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In less serious cases of anxiety, a range of techniques for self improvement without any need of doctors can be done, such as meditation, fitness, maintaining a healthy diet, breathing exercises, programs and services online, and the communication and support from family members and friends. However, professional treatments can include:

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT):
Cognitive behaviour therapy is a form of counselling aimed at identifying behavioural and thought patterns that make an individual's anxiousness  increase or prevent themselves from improvement when anxiety occurs. By doing so, changes can be made to any hindering patterns impacting on anxiety to reduce levels and aid with coping the mental illness. CBT can help motivate and bring on ways to deal with and let go of issues, solve problems, and distinguish between worries that are considered unproductive or productive.

Behaviour Therapy:

Behaviour therapy is another type of psychological therapy, however doesn’t aim to apply any changes to the attitudes or beliefs of the individual. Instead, work is done to encourage the performance of activities that make the individual anxious in order to overcome the fear, rather than running away or avoiding it. By providing a sense of satisfaction and reward after, such treatment allows people to cope with situations that make them feel anxious, and position the worry into view.

Medication:

Even though symptoms of depression are not experienced, countless varieties of antidepressants can be used to manage anxiety. Antidepressants are formulated to assist in reworking the disproportion of chemical messages between neurons in the brain that can causes mental illnesses like anxiety to occur. Benzodiazepines is also a drug prescribed that promotes relaxation and a decrease in tenseness, but only for short term use (2-3 weeks) as it can bring on addiction and reductions in coordination and attention.

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The symptoms of anxiety can be divided into 3 groups:
Emotional:

Excessive worry about the past, present or future

Feelings of powerlessness and apprehension

A constant sense of impending fear

Difficulty in thinking, concentrating and remembering

Obsessive thoughts

Physical:

Panic attacks

Hot/cold flushes

Tightening of the chest

Increased heart rate

Rapid/quick breathing

Always feeling tense, wound up and edgy

Diarrhea

Muscle tension

Headaches

Difficulty sleeping

Tiredness

Sweating

Trembling

Behavioural:

Avoiding situations that make you feel anxious, which can impact on study, social life, etc.

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Anxiety isn’t developed by one factor but a combination of different things. Personality factors, difficult life experiences and physical health are some factors that could contribute to anxiety.

Family history of anxiety: If a family member has had anxiety there is a chance that you could’ve inherited it but it doesn’t mean that it is certain.

Personality factors: Research has suggested that children who are perfectionists, timid, have a lack of self-esteem or are controlling, will develop anxiety during childhood, youth or as adults.

Ongoing stressful events: Anxiety might develop because of events such as work related stress, living arrangements, family/relationship problems, emotional shock following a stressful event, abuse and trauma or death/loss of a loved one.

Physical health problems: Some chronic physical illnesses such as diabetes, asthma and heart disease can impact and contribute to anxiety.

Substance use: Alcohol and drug abuse can cause anxiety to worsen or in worse case scenarios if there is an excessive use of drugs and alcohol the bio chemistry in the brain can be damaged which causes the anxiety to worsen.

When anxiety is diagnosed the patient has to go through a physical exam to identify the signs that the anxiety may be linked to an underlying medical condition, blood and urine tests to identify if there is a medical condition and a detailed psychological questionnaire about the symptoms and medical history to help determine the diagnosis. Someone with anxiety is seen to have excessive amounts of worry which cause interruptions and distress during daily life.

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Anxiety is the most common mental illness in Australia with every one in five women aged 16-24 and every one in ten men aged 16-24 experiencing anxiety. The most common anxiety disorders reported by youth in Australia social anxiety disorders (5.4%) and post-traumatic stress disorders (7.7%). The first symptoms of anxiety are experienced by the age of 11.

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Anxiety is feelings of stress and worry that is continuous and is triggered by certain situations and ‘stressors’. The feelings may occur without a particular reason and are not easily controlled. Anxiety is the most common mental illness in Australia with every one in three women and every one in five men experiencing anxiety at one point in their life. Every year there are two million Australians that experience anxiety. People with anxiety have constant anxious and stressful feelings whereas anxious people are stressed and anxious while under pressure and the feelings pass once the stressful situation is over.

Anxiety is made up of different aspects such as generalised anxiety disorder (when a person is anxious and worried about most things on most day throughout a period of 6 or more months), social phobia (when a person has an extreme fear of being criticised, embarrassed or humiliated in situations such as speaking in public, eating in public or making small talk), specific phobias (a person has a great fear of a particular object or situation and they go to great lengths to avoid it.), obsessive compulsive disorder (a person can have unwanted and intrusive thoughts and fears that are ongoing which caused anxiety and they try to relieve it by carrying out a certain behaviour or ritual) and panic disorder (where people with anxiety can have panic attacks which are intense feelings of anxiety and worry combined with shortness of breath, chest pain and dizziness).