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Anxiety and Insomnia
Anxiety is an emotional condition characterised by persistent feelings of apprehension,
tension, or uneasiness and accompanied by physical symptoms as tachycardia,
sweating, dyspnea and
tremor.
Insomnia is characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. It
may occur also in association with other medical or psychiatric conditions.
Learn More about Anxiety and Sleep Disorders:

Anxiety (MedlinePlus)
Anxiety Disorders (Center for Mental Health Services)
Anxiety Disorders (National Institute of Mental Health)
Sleep Disorders (MedlinePlus)
Medications for Anxiety Disorders (Anxiety Disorders Association of America)
Treating Anxiety (The Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center)
Many medications with different pharmacological mechanisms of action are available for
treatment of anxiety.

Benzodiazepines are the main medications in this class. Anxiety medications have
replaced barbiturates in the main group of anxiety drugs and hypnotics. Benzodiazepines
reduce anxiety and muscle tone, and induce sleep. They should be used for short-term
treatment of anxiety (up to four weeks) as they can cause serious problems of
dependence. Antidepressants and beta-blockers can be also used for treatment of
anxiety.

Recently, some non-benzodiazepine hypnotics with low dependence potential have been
developed. They decrease the sleep latency and increase the duration of sleep, and are
indicated for the short-term treatment of insomnia.
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