Dr. Yang recommends treating the root cause-helping patients develop more healthy ways of thinking and encouraging them to improve personal and professional relationships worsened by their anxieties. He also advocates the use of anti-anxiety medications to alleviate suffering during panic attacks and bouts of acute anxiety.
耕莘醫院楊聰財主任建議「治本」的方式是，醫生協助患者建立正確的健康觀念，並鼓勵他們改善受慮病症影響而惡化的社交及職場關係；不過，急性焦慮或恐慌發作的時候，仍應給予抗焦慮藥物治療，以減輕患者的不適。