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Reducing State Anxiety Using Working Memory Maintenance
Published on: July 19, 2017
Office management of anxiety States
Abstract:
Anxiety states are common problems in family medicine. Family physicians are the best people to treat this painful psychological and physical state, although they may at times feel drugs are the answer or the patients should solve the problems themselves. Drugs are only symptom relievers and may be abused. The best therapy is a cautious use of drugs, good psychological diagnostics and a short term problem solving type of crisis therapy. Some pitfalls of treatment are added as a word of caution, but the final emphasis is primary treatment of anxiety by the personal touch of the primary physician.
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