Anxiety Treatment

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety is a mental health condition that impacts about 40 million adults in the United States each year. Anxiety disorders are the most common disorders seen in the population and manifest due to a combination of factors dependent on genetics, brain chemistry, personality, life events, and other risks. 

Although anxiety is incredibly common, it is also highly treatable with the appropriate tools. At Hawaii Island Recovery, we offer services to heal from substance use disorder (SUD) and other co-occurring mental illnesses, such as anxiety. 

If you are experiencing anxiety, you are likely experiencing a combination of emotional, physical, and mental symptoms. These symptoms may manifest as:

What anxiety looks and feels like is different for everyone, which is why it’s important to discuss the symptoms with a professional who can help you understand it and how to get relief through treatment. 

When healing from experiences such as SUD and co-occurring conditions such as anxiety, it can be hard to tell if the substance use or anxiety came first. Regardless of which came first, developing an evidence-based, holistic treatment plan is essential to recovering from both. 

Among the most common anxiety disorders is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), which is a condition characterized by experiencing a persistent and unrelenting feeling of worry, dread, and fear that interferes with an individual’s ability to cope with everyday life. The anxiety is present for long periods at a time and is not caused by any one event, although certain situations, thoughts, or people can exacerbate the presence of anxiety. 

If someone is experiencing social anxiety disorder (SAD), they have an intense fear of being watched, judged, or seen by others. Symptoms they may experience in the presence of others include, but are not limited to, stomach aches, racing heartbeat, sweating, trembling, difficulty making eye contact, and hypervigilance around others. 

Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that’s known for having frequent and often unexpected panic attacks that appear for relatively no rhyme or reason. These attacks are present in the absence of danger or triggers. When experiencing a panic attack, an individual experiences feelings of impending doom, chest pain, racing heartbeat, sweating or chills, and a fear of losing control. 

Phobias are intense aversions to objects and situations that are feared by the individual. The fear experienced tends to be extreme for the situation or object at hand. However, it does not feel this way for those experiencing phobia-related anxiety, even if they logically know the fear is irrational.  

These phobias could be related to:

It’s important to note that although these are seemingly safe, the brain registers them as fearful, causing anxiety for those living with this condition. In the presence of the feared object or situation, the individual may experience irrational and excessive worry, take steps to avoid the things that trigger them, and feel intense anxiety when encountering whatever it is that feels dangerous to them. 

There are several different treatments for anxiety. At Hawaii Island Recovery, we treat anxiety disorders from a holistic and evidence-based perspective to ensure we are getting to the root of what is causing SUD with co-occurring anxiety. We also approach healing from a whole-person perspective that meets each individual where they are and takes into consideration their mind, body, and spirit. 

Treatment modalities you may experience as part of your treatment programming for anxiety and SUD may include:

Because each person has different needs and desires based on where they are in their healing, what treatment looks like and encompasses for each individual will be different. At Hawaii Island Recovery, we value meeting each person where they are and creating a treatment plan that works for them. 

If you or a loved one is looking to begin treatment for SUD and anxiety, Hawaii Island Recovery offers premier addiction services in Hawaii. It can be hard to tell which came first, the anxiety or substance use, and this is also why it’s even more essential they are treated in tandem as they both feed into each other. 

It can be challenging to attempt recovery alone. Let us help with our substance use treatment center that fulfills each of your needs for recovery. We are located on the beautiful Big Island of Hawaii and provide an individualized, evidence-based, and holistic approach to treatment that allows you to focus on your recovery while cultivating meaningful relationships and memories in one of the most serene places in the world.

Hawaii Island Recovery offers men and women an opportunity to recover from anxiety, substance abuse, and behavioral disorders while living on the beautiful island of Hawaii. Our multi-disciplinary, integrative treatment approach allows for accurate assessment, evidence-based therapies, and experiential and holistic therapies, all administered by licensed therapists who are credentialed in their respective specialties. By treating anxiety and substance abuse disorder or behavioral disorder simultaneously, we are able to promote holistic health of the body, mind, and spirit.