Two specialized approaches for the treatment of anxiety are:

• Applied relaxation - This method teaches people with generalized anxiety disorder to control their symptoms by using imagination and muscle control. Relaxation techniques, such as diaphragmatic breathing, meditation and visualization, can relieve some of the more bothersome physical symptoms.

• Biofeedback - This form of therapy uses special sensors attached to the skin to teach people with generalized anxiety disorder to recognize anxiety-related changes in their physiological functions, such as pulse, skin temperature and muscle tone. With time and practice, they learn to modify these anxiety-related changes, and to control the effect of anxiety on the entire body.