 We are repeatedly and frequently asked by the general public that anxiety is a normal human emotion, then why do we need to treat it? So we need to distinguish between a normal human emotion and a disorder. When we are in a situation which frightens us, which makes us tense, it is normal. But when if the symptoms last beyond a reasonable amount of time and depth and it interferes with our functioning in all spheres of our life, then it becomes a disorder and that is where the medical help or medical intervention is required. I am Dr. B. Kapoor. I am a consultant in psychiatry and I am with the Manipal Hospital, Hebal. And today we are going to talk about anxiety and drosses. Anxiety disorder is an unnecessary, undue, excessive worries about a situation or a person or an idea or environment. And when it goes beyond a reasonably normal time and it interferes with our day-to-day life, our occupational life, in our family and social spheres, that's where it is called anxiety and drosses and it needs medical intervention. The classical symptoms of anxiety disorders are restlessness, unable to relax, tenseness in the whole body, tenseness in the muscles and feeling discomfort sometime in the head, sometime in the chest and sleep disturbances and it may be accompanied by sweating in the hand or tremors in the hand and loss of appetite. These are generally the main symptoms of anxiety and drosses. Causative factors in anxiety and drosses are multifactorial and one of them is if there is a family history, that means the environment in which the person grows or it may be sometime partly genetic and then it could be the environmental stresses which are constantly bombarding all of us in various spheres of our life. There could be substance abuse and then there could be health issues like physical health, different type of disorders, illnesses which may cause anxiety to us. There could be medical causes of anxiety also, for example serious medical disorders, certain medications may cause like steroids and certain type of heavy antibiotics and these kind of the medical therapies can also sometime produce anxiety and medical illnesses itself can also generate anxiety in a normal person. See the diagnosis primarily is on the history taking, examination and evaluation of the patient. So, on the history they will tell us whatever has been happening in past of the family pressure, work pressure, others where and we evaluate their content of the speech, their body language, other physical symptoms like tremors, sweating in the hand and trombolism of the body, loss of sleep, loss of appetite. So, these are the ways diagnosis of anxiety and drosses can be come to. The treatment again are of different varieties, one is the medical treatment, other is the behaviour therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and self-help. So, mostly in the mild anxiety where the symptoms are not very severe and the functionality is not disturbed that much and we try to tell patient to do self-help in the sense of use relaxation techniques, physical exercises, yoga, pranayama, meditation and if these do not work then we add on to the medical therapy in which you will use the anti-anxiety medication and SSRIs, serotonin raising medication and also the next step into both into psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour modification. These are the some of the techniques in which we manage anxiety and drosses.