Struggling with anxiety day after day becomes exhausting. Your anxiety may limit your daily life activities, professional development, or personal ambitions. You feel like you can’t live the life you want to, because the anxious thoughts and feelings are always right there, oppressing you and causing damage to your physical and mental health.
Whether you’re living with social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, or even an intense specific phobia, you deserve to find the inner peace that leads to outward confidence. Once you’re open to treatment, you have decisions to make about the path you’d like to pursue in recovering from your anxiety disorder.
At Iconic Infusions, PLLC of Fayetteville, North Carolina, board-certified anesthesiologist Dr. Bryant S. Edwards provides holistic, compassionate, and well-informed care for new and existing patients with anxiety disorders. Dr. Edwards discusses your symptoms, goals, and treatment plans with you, and informs you about all of the treatment options that may be able to relieve or resolve your anxiety issues.
Dr. Edwards specializes in intravenous (IV) ketamine therapy, a groundbreaking treatment option that offers significant benefits for mental health treatment. In this blog, he helps you understand when and why you should be considering ketamine therapy as a treatment for your anxiety disorder.
You may try to manage your anxiety disorder by “working around” your symptoms. If a specific activity, person, or area causes you to feel overly anxious, you may re-route your life around the problem element, attempting to protect yourself from an anxiety or panic attack. While this can cut down on the frequency of your attacks, it does so at the cost of your quality of life.
When you’re ready to stop trying to appease your anxiety and are ready to recover your inner confidence, talk to Dr. Edwards about treatments that can help. You have access to multiple forms of anxiety treatment, including counseling, medication management, or ketamine therapy.
Historically used as an anesthetic during surgery, ketamine triggers a dissociative effect and can end mental cycles that have been repeating over and over again for years. That includes the thought spirals characteristic of anxiety disorders. At Iconic Infusions, PLLC, you benefit from the ability to try this promising type of treatment.
Mental health treatment is an always-evolving field. Currently, we know of several ways to treat anxiety, but we’re also aware that not all treatment approaches work well for every patient. You may be able to recover from anxiety through medication management, talk therapy, EMDR, lifestyle changes, or even controlled exposure therapy. But you may also have tried these approaches without significant symptom relief.
In recent years, we’ve understood more about the ways that ketamine can work as a dramatic mental health solution. That’s especially true when your condition has proved treatment-resistant, as ketamine therapy comes at the problem from a whole new angle. The recommended series of ketamine infusion sessions “flip a switch” in your brain, quieting down the anxious thoughts that so frequently bother you, and activating new neural pathways to promote your future growth.
Your anxiety treatment starts with a consultation with Dr. Edwards. He discusses your mental health and treatment history, and advises you on whether you could be a good candidate for ketamine as an anxiety therapy. You can also use ketamine treatments in combination with other mental health care, including talk therapy and lifestyle modification.
There’s relief at the end of your long slog through anxiety. Don’t delay another day before reaching out to Dr. Edwards and the Iconic Infusions, PLLC team. Contact us online or over the phone and schedule now.
