Anxiety, exceeding a certain threshold, turns to be an uneasy, frightful sensation of an unclear and uncontrollable burden. The way we react to the situation by anxiety is disproportional to the situation,  being inadequate by duration and intensity of the anxiety. The feeling develops suddenly, with no early warning signs and without any event that could lend an explanation to the rising feeling. Eventually, one learns to live with fear that cannot be avoided or relieved no matter what measurements will be taken.

Anxiety endeavors the patient by marked physical sensations including blushing, sweating, rise in blood pressure and pulse, and sometimes diarrhea some signs resembling the sensations felt under a cardiac event. Often under an anxiety attack, one may feel choking, unstable or dizzy, all giving rise to thoughts of an approaching death.

Anxiety has an estimated prevalence of up to 25% of the general population!!!.    

In many cases, prior to a correct diagnosis the patient is perceived by physicians and family members  as a "nag, hysteric, hypochondriac and mainly a nuisance”. In order to minimize suffer, the correct diagnosis should take place as soon as possible followed by adequate treatment. Differential diagnosis aimed at disclosing any apparent physiological medical disorder should be performed and within days, a correct analysis would reflect the presence of anxiety.

Diagnosis

Based on negative results obtained for any other medical disorders that might lend an explanation to the symptoms presented, evaluating the symptoms and personality characteristics of the person, a diagnosis is established.

Advanced diagnosis

Novel understanding of the brain’s circuitry and function has lead to better understand the leading factors involved in anxiety and thus further develop a new, scientific, biophysical non-invasive, accurate and reliable method (BDTAK) to diagnose anxiety accurately. The patient performs the test autonomously, at his home setting.

Moreover, the BDTAK enables accurate biophysical monitoring of differential efficacy of the therapy employed leading to better medication adjustments. BDTAK has been tested with patients within the wide age span of 4 to 63 years for different disorders.

BDTAK makes possible to minimize suffer from the patient and his family by accurate, reliable, time consuming diagnosis.

Dr. A. Kessler, writing this page is a psychologist and a neuropsychologist in the “Clinic of Advanced Psychology”, engaged in treating patients and clinical research, a member of the Israeli Psychological Association, an affiliate member of the APA and a member of the TIC consortium.