Dr. Sridhar Yaratha has been an outpatient psychiatrist with Gateway Homes in Chesterfield, Virginia, since 2009. Dr. Sridhar Yaratha’s primary responsibility is overseeing the psychiatric care of adults with chronic mental illnesses. Chronic mental illness denotes conditions characterized by psychiatric symptoms of persistent debilitation and severe impairment of functions, such as major depression, schizophrenia, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). GAD involves persistent and exaggerated yet groundless and unrealistic anxiety and worry about various everyday life events. People with GAD may constantly anticipate disaster and find it difficult to stop worrying about family, money, school, or work. GAD treatment usually includes lifestyle changes, therapy, and medication, or a combination of the three. In terms of medication treatment of GAD, some regimens can be preventive, and others target curing the problem. Most often, psychiatrists prescribe antidepressants, more precisely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), or some tricyclic antidepressants. They boost the activity of serotonin and norepinephrine, brain chemicals believed to influence circuits responsible for mood regulation. Other classes of medicines that can be helpful with milder cases of anxiety are antihistamines and beta-blockers. The first commonly treat allergic reactions by reducing or blocking histamines, chemicals that human bodies produce when in contact with allergy triggers. The latter is typically used for treating high blood pressure as they block certain natural substances that impact the work of the heart and the blood vessels. For immediate relief, in cases of acute anxiety or a panic attack, psychiatrists recommend benzodiazepines, a class of medications that influences a person’s brain and nerves to create a calming effect. It is noteworthy to mention that due to the potential habit-forming nature of some anxiety drugs, psychiatrists usually prescribe them for shorter courses of treatment or only as needed.

1. Three Ways How Meditation Can Ease
Depression
Dr. Sridhar Yaratha

2. Introduction
Dr. Sridhar Yaratha has been an outpatient psychiatrist with Gateway Homes in
Chesterfield, Virginia, since 2009. Dr. Sridhar Yaratha’s primary responsibility is
overseeing the psychiatric care of adults with chronic mental illnesses.

3. Chronic mental illness denotes conditions characterized by psychiatric
symptoms of persistent debilitation and severe impairment of functions,
such as major depression, schizophrenia, and generalized anxiety disorder
(GAD).

4. GAD involves persistent and exaggerated yet groundless and unrealistic
anxiety and worry about various everyday life events. People with GAD may
constantly anticipate disaster and find it difficult to stop worrying about
family, money, school, or work. GAD treatment usually includes lifestyle
changes, therapy, and medication, or a combination of the three.

5. In terms of medication treatment of GAD, some regimens can be preventive,
and others target curing the problem. Most often, psychiatrists prescribe
antidepressants, more precisely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
(SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), or some
tricyclic antidepressants. They boost the activity of serotonin and
norepinephrine, brain chemicals believed to influence circuits responsible
for mood regulation.

6. Other classes of medicines that can be helpful with milder cases of anxiety
are antihistamines and beta-blockers. The first commonly treat allergic
reactions by reducing or blocking histamines, chemicals that human bodies
produce when in contact with allergy triggers. The latter is typically used for
treating high blood pressure as they block certain natural substances that
impact the work of the heart and the blood vessels.

7. For immediate relief, in cases of acute anxiety or a panic attack, psychiatrists
recommend benzodiazepines, a class of medications that influences a
person’s brain and nerves to create a calming effect. It is noteworthy to
mention that due to the potential habit-forming nature of some anxiety
drugs, psychiatrists usually prescribe them for shorter courses of treatment
or only as needed.