Psychiatry Today: Anxiety Test!

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1) "So, you have come to me because you believe that you have 'anxiety' which could be  bad nerves or panic attacks or something else?"

2) Do you attribute this 'anxiety' to any cause?

3) How are your nerves?

4) What makes you uncomfortable if anything?

5) Do any medications help you with your 'anxiety?'

6) Do you use illegal drugs that may cause anxiety like crack cocaine or cocaine?

7) Are you uncomfortable with small places like this office or a smaller one?

8) Is anything bothering you, now?

9) So, do you make mistakes?

  a) Do you make mistakes often?

  b) Do you make more mistakes when you are feeling 'anxiety?"

EDITOR'S NOTE:

It might help us with anxiety to do something other than Buspar as a first try like propanolol that in 20s (mg?) seems to generally reconcile 'anxiety' instead of a buspar, which does little.  Some relief right away is good.

What about an 'anxiety' relief plan of medication management with the psychiatrist 2-7 days from the first administration of the medication and also the first visit?

This shows smooth moves!

EDITOR'S LATER NOTE:

10) On a scale of one to ten, how much anxiety do you feel?  Regular and at peak times?

11) On a scale of one to ten, how intense if your anxiety?  Regular and peak times?

12) Do you have "panic attack," attacks of high amounts or intense anxiety at one time.  This may be rare or much of the time.