Anxiety Attacks, Natural Remedy

Eliminate Anxiety and Panic Attacks For Good

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:25:44 +0000

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If you suffer from…

* Palpitations

* a pounding heart, or an accelerated heart rate

* Sweating

* Trembling or shaking

* Shortness of breath

* A choking sensation

* Chest pain or discomfort

* Nausea or stomach cramps

* Derealization (a feeling of unreality)

* Fear of losing control or going crazy

* Fear of dying Numbness or a tingling sensation

* Chills or hot flashes

(Source: American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) 2000 Washington, DC.)

…then you’ve experienced firsthand some of the possible symptoms of a panic or anxiety attack. If you are reading this page because a loved one suffers from these symptoms and you are trying to understand or help, it’s hard to appreciate what they go through.

Just try to imagine what it feels like to experience one, if you can.

Here is a typical example:

Standing in a supermarket queue, it’s been a long wait but only one customer to go before you make it to the cashier. Wait, what was that sensation? An unpleasant feeling forms in your throat, your chest feels tighter, now a sudden shortness of breath, and what do you know—your heart skips a beat. “Please, God, not here.”

A quick scan of the territory—is it threatening? Four unfriendly faces queue behind, one person in front. Pins and needles seem to prick you through your left arm, you feel slightly dizzy, and then the explosion of fear as you dread the worst. You are about to have a panic attack.

There is no doubt in your mind now that this is going to be a big one. Okay, focus: Remember what you have been taught, and it is time now to apply the coping techniques. Begin the deep breathing exercise your doctor recommended. In through the nose, out through the mouth.

Think relaxing thoughts, and again, while breathing in, think “Relax,” and then breathe out. But it doesn’t seem to be having any positive effect; in fact, just concentrating on breathing is making you feel self-conscious and more uptight.

Okay, coping technique 2:

Gradual muscle relaxation. Tense both shoulders, hold for 10 seconds, then release. Try it again. No; still no difference. The anxiety is getting worse and the very fact that you are out of coping techniques worsens your panic. If only you were surrounded by your family, or a close friend were beside you so you could feel more confident in dealing with this situation.

Now, the adrenaline is really pumping through your system, your body is tingling with uncomfortable sensations, and now the dreaded feeling of losing complete control engulfs your emotions. No one around you has any idea of the sheer terror you are experiencing. For them, it’s just a regular day and another frustratingly slow queue in the supermarket.

You are out of options. Time for Plan C.

The most basic coping skill of all is “fleeing.” Excuse yourself from the queue; you are slightly embarrassed as it is now that it is your turn to pay. The cashier is looking bewildered as you leave your shopping behind and stroll towards the door. There is no time for excuses—you need to be alone. You leave the supermarket and get into your car to ride it out alone. Could this be the big one? The one you fear will push you over the edge mentally and physically. Ten minutes later the panic subsides.

It’s 10:30 a.m. How are you going to make it through the rest of the day?

If you suffer from panic or anxiety attacks, the above scenerio probably sounds very familiar. It may have even induced feelings of anxiety and panic just reading it. The particular situations that trigger your panic and anxiety may differ; maybe the bodily sensations are a little different. Or maybe it happened to you for the first time on a plane, in the dentist chair, or even at home, while doing nothing in particular.

If you have ever had what has become known as a “panic attack,” take comfort in the fact that you are by no means alone.

A panic attack always comes with the acute sense of impending doom. You feel you are either about to lose your mind or one of your vital bodily functions is about to cease functioning and you will end your days right there among the canned goods and frozen food.

You are by no means alone; you’re not even one in a million. In America, it is estimated that almost 5% of the population suffer from some form of anxiety disorder. For some, it may be the infrequent panic attacks that only crop up in particular situations-like when having to speak in front of others, while, for other people, it can be so frequent and recurring that it inhibits them from leaving their home. Frequent panic attacks often develop into what medical physicians refer to as an “anxiety disorder.”

One of the first steps to regaining control of your life is getting helpful information. This site will give you that, and more.

The beginning of your recovery starts here. What you will learn is that there is a very good chance you are about to end the cycle of panic attacks in your life. You will learn not only to regain the carefree life you remember once having, but will also gain new confidence in living. Your answer to living free from “panic” or “anxiety attacks” is at hand.

This site demonstrates that the panic and anxiety that you have experienced will be the very key to your courage and success.

Begin the road to recovery by browsing through the site. While many of you may have read almost everything you can possibly read relating to panic and anxiety I assure you this site offers something very effective.

Did you know…?

The key difference between someone who is cured of panic attacks and those who are not is really very simple. The people who are cured no longer fear panic attacks. I’ll try to show you how to be one of these people as well.

What if I told you the trick to ending panic and anxiety attacks is to want to have one. That sounds strange, even contradictory, but let me explain.

The trick to panic attacks is wanting to have one-the wanting pushes it away. Can you have a panic attack in this very second? No!

You know the saying that “what you resist, persists.” Well that saying applies perfectly to fear. If you resist a situation out of fear, the fear around that issue will persist. How do you stop resisting–you move directly into it, into the path of the anxiety, and by doing so it cannot persist.

In essence what this means is that if you daily voluntarily seek to have a panic attack, you cannot have one. Try in this very moment to have a panic attack and I will guarantee you cannot. You may not realize it but you have always decided to panic. You make the choice by saying this is beyond my control.

Another way to appreciate this is to imagine having a panic attack as like standing on a cliff’s edge. The anxiety seemingly pushes you closer to falling over the edge.

To be rid of the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must jump off the cliff edge and into the anxiety and fear and all the things that you fear most.

How do you jump? You jump by wanting to have a panic attack. You go about your day asking for anxiety and panic attacks to appear.

Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack will never harm you. That is medical fact. You are safe, the sensations are wild but no harm will come to you. Your heart is racing but no harm will come to you. The jump becomes nothing more than a two foot drop! Perfectly safe.

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Barry Joe McDonagh is an international panic disorder coach. His informative site on all issues related to panic and anxiety attacks can be found here: http://angst-nomore.com/panic away

Anxiety Disorders: Nature versus Nurture

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:48:40 +0000

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Terry Dixon :
Anxiety is a part of human nature, a survival mechanism that has evolved to protect us, and the problems it can bring, in themselves, reflect what it means to be human:-

* worrying (planning ahead)

* physical symptoms (eg. increased heartrate/breathing to prepare us for action)

* even obsessive compulsive behaviour (the need for order and control)

All are deeply ingrained in human make-up to help us survive.

However, when we talk about nature versus nurture in regard to anxiety problems we are usually referring to the cause of the problem: is it due to nature (a faulty gene, brain structure, chemical imbalance or disease) or nurture (the environment we live in, our experiences, learning and conditioning)?

The answer, of course, is both – but what role does each actually play?

Genetic information passed from parent to child could contain much more than we are aware of today, possibly even passing on hopes, fears and desires – such things being an integral part of a person’s make up. Without doubt a parent that has lived a life ‘surviving’ with OCD (or depression or high anxiety etc.) will pass such ‘survival’ information to their offspring.

However, all such information can only be in the form of predispositions – ways to behave given the ‘right’ (although negative) conditions for the inherent information / potential behaviours to flourish. This must be the case, for adaption (survival) purposes – it would not be sensible to be born into an unknown environment with ‘fixed’ attitudes/behaviours. Eg. it would not be appropriate to be constantly fearful in an environment of love.

So – genetics is important in the form of predispositions: coded information from our ancestors to help us survive/ thrive in various environments, but it is the environment in which we live that controls whether these predispostions flourish or wither and die.

Let’s look at OCD, for example, being a major problem that current trends proffer ‘nature’ as the cause: OCD represents trying to get control over ‘unseen’ forces and dangers – through rituals (there is no other way to attempt to get control over powerful negative forces that control us other than by rituals), ordering (to have everything ordered, in control) etc.

Given the right (wrong) set of life circumstances, it is not surprising that many turn to ordering / rituals to try and get control over relentless, uncontrollable anxiety (It’s not called an anxiety disorder for nothing).

But it’s the environment and fears/anxieties that have been learned and conditioned that drive this need to get control (to assuage the fears). Genetic history may enhance this or not.

Note also that a parent with OCD not only promotes direct learning (as a role model) but often treats their children in such a way (over cautious, negatively due to their own problems etc.) that may promote fears and anxieties. A child with OCD from a parent with OCD does not confirm a genetic link as the cause.

Included in the ‘nature’ argument is the idea of physical brain differences being the cause of OCD – they are not, they are the result of it, and many books that proffer this cause go on to say that the brain can be changed by learning (to a non-OCD state) – yes it can, just as it is changed in the first place to an OCD state by learning and conditioning.

This change of brain state obviously involves changes in levels (usually deficiencies) of such things as neurotransmitters (generally Dopamine and Serotonin are the ones frequently mentioned), proteins AND EVEN GENES. [The work of Barbara McClintock in the 1950's -originally ignored by her peers, later awarded the Nobel prize for her work showing that genes in plants change in stressful environmental conditions(whole sequences of DNA moving from one place to another). This is in plants - imagine what could be really happening in humans!]

And so, science may find brain structure changes, neurotransmitter level differences, protein diffrerences, genetic differences in those with OCD – BUT all these changes are, more logically, the result of the OCD not the cause.

Manipulating these factors can only (as the failure of modern medications as a cure already confirms) alleviate some symtoms for they never touch the cause.

The environment must be the overriding factor – these problems are psychological and the answer is psychological – reconditioning and relearning our attitudes, beliefs and fears … in effect, re-changing our brain and probably in doing so, altering a part of our genetic make up.

MindSoothe can be used to safely maintain emotional health, balanced mood and systemic harmony in the brain and nervous system, without harmful side effects.

Terry Dixon is the founder of help-for.com and author
of Evolving Self Confidence: How to Become Free from Anxiety Disorders and Depression.

Treat Your Panic Attacks with Hypnotherapy London

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:40:22 +0000

John Cvetkovic :

The panic disorder is in the category of anxiety disorders, disorders that are based on fear and it can be treated with hypnosis London as well as with the help of hypnotherapy London. The panic disorder is characterized by sudden and violent attacks of intense fear, crises which occur in a totally unpredictable way.

People with panic disorder generally develop strong anxiety between attacks, wondering when and how the next will occur.

The panic disorder often leads to the creation of phobias or agoraphobia, by association between a crisis and the circumstances of the crisis, or between the crisis and an object present during the crisis. For example, a person who has a panic attack in a lift is likely to create a phobia of elevators and will start to avoid them whenever possible. All these can be treated with the help of Hypnotherapy London.

Compared to other anxiety disorders, the main things that characterize the panic disorder are the intensity of sensations, the sudden crisis in their limited time, typically approximately ten minutes, and the fact they are unpredictable.

The hypnotherapy London curing model

In panic disorder, fear is caused by one or more unconscious processes. These processes are active psychic phenomena of self-generating fear. They are active only for brief moments, thus causing fear of great intensity.

These processes are reactivating an imprint of memory, a memory, which is associated with fear. Reactivation of memory causes the reactivation of unconscious fear.

Like all mental processes, they have been created at a particular time in response to a particular situation. In the context of this situation, they were useful to the patient. Indeed, fear is useful, it serves to protect us from danger, whether real or imagined.

What happens in case of panic disorder is that the original situation has changed, the threat has disappeared, but the process remained. They should have stopped it happened something that has prevented the normal shutdown process.

Treating Panic Attacks with Hypnotherapy London

The principle of treatment by hypnotherapy London is to access these unconscious processes, and that only hypnosis can do, and then make sure they stop.

There are various methods to stop unconscious processes with the help of hypnotherapy London. Often, the mere awareness of the causes sufficient to stop the process, but sometimes it is not sufficient and some specific techniques must be implemented.

The treatment begins with an exploration under hypnosis London to understand the mechanism of maintenance of anxiety, why the activation process does not stop, how is it they continue to be active while the situation that has created has disappeared, sometimes for very long. Then, based on these mechanisms maintain updated in the exploration phase, some changes are introduced into the patient’s mental functioning, changes that will lead to the arrest of these processes.

This second phase of hypnotherapy London is essentially a restructuring of certain patterns memorial in order to remove the association between memory and emotion. This can all happen by hypnosis London and you can be completely treated for your panic attacks this way.