Anxiety

Data gathering

• Red flags – harming self/suicide
• Others – mood, sleep, physical symptoms, avoid certain situations, thought disorder, hallucinations
• Examine – BP, pulse, CV exam, mental state

Clinical management

• Investigations
  • Bloods – TFTs
  • ECG

• Explanation
  • Anxiety is the unpleasant feeling when you feel worried about something that may or may not happen – can result in physical symptoms – some people find it hard to control their worries and it can become constant and start to affect daily life

• Treatment
  • CBT
  • Medications – SSRIs (6mo), propranolol, benzodiazepines
  • Self help, exercise
  • Refer psychiatry

• Safety net/follow up – see again in 1/12