Are there any drugs for the treatment of anxiety?

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   Medications are normally prescribed in order to relieve pain and the psychological symptoms of anxiety. Most of the medications show their effect by the counteracting the biochemical and muscular changes that work in the brain chemicals. Anxiolytes are sometimes known as tranquilizers. Most of these anxiolytic drugs are benzodiazepines or barbiturates. Barbiturates and now commonly used and very rarely used in the clinical practice. Benzodiazapines effects and relaxes the muscles and also results in limbic system. The drugs here include such as chlordiazepoxide and diazepam. Both result in habit forming and can result in the withdrawal symptoms, benzodiazepines are less likely than barbiturates in causing the physical dependency. The two other type of anxiolytic medications are meprobamate, which is now rarely used. It is a type of anxiolytic that appears to work by increasing the efficiency of body’s emotion that regulate the brain chemicals.
   
   On the other hand there is antidepressants and beta blockers that provides the treatment of choice of for obsessive compulsive disorder, panic type anxiety, and also other anxiety disorders that forms a group of antidepressants. Beta blockers are the medications that effect by stopping the reaction of body to the stress hormones that are released during the action of muscles of a body. They include drugs like propranolol or atenolol. Beta blockers are given to patients who have post-traumatic symptoms of anxiety.
   
    

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