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Anxiety can be a real drag, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives and you’re stuck there with your anxious thoughts and feelings. Anxiety greets you in the morning and again before you go to bed and if you’re lucky it doesn’t disturb your sleep too much.

If this sounds in any way familiar to you and you are troubled in this way the following tips will help you.

1) Stop pushing it away

When we experience anything in life that is unpleasant it’s natural enough for us to want to push it away, but when it comes to anxiety this is to our detriment. The harder we push any emotion away the harder it pushes back towards us. So the key here is to simply stop pushing your fear away and let it in a for a while. This is a new practise and may take some time to achieve. Just practise with it and see what happens. Continue reading ‘How To Be Anxiety Free’ »

The root of anxiety grows from different seeds, in my case the seed was alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant, as much as it can make you feel good for a time, long time use can cause mental disorders, along with the normal reduction of brain function caused by excessive use. Not everyone suffers from mental disorders from alcohol, but in my case excessive use of alcohol left me with severe depression.

After a couple of years of drinking and depression, I started having panic attacks which lead to a vicious circle of self medication. I remember my first panic attack like it was yesterday…I was on the way to pick up my youngest son from school, when the gripping fear came on followed by dizziness and a very short blackout. I had no idea what it was at the time but I new it wasn’t normal. Continue reading ‘Anxiety Grows From Different Seeds’ »

Anxiety attacks too much fear, worry or stress. It is during this crucial period that a person may be reduced to a nervous wreck or come out of it still whole and live a normal life.

In order to avoid the onset of an attack it is important that you must understand what an anxiety attack is and what are its symptoms. Of course, an average person must have experienced the symptoms at some point in their life but it is unlikely to have reached a certain level to cause panic. In other words it is manageable and within the range of our capacity to overcome the attack.

Do you remember giving a speech for the first time and you feel your heart pounding wildly or a relationship of a loved one at the brink of disaster? The possible loss of a job and a confrontation with your boss can cause you untold tension and misery. They are elements of disaster and if not handled correctly, an anxiety attack may set in. Continue reading ‘Anxiety Attacks Description’ »

Panic attacks symptoms can range from mild to VERY severe, they are EXTREMELY frightening, and usually have the victim thinking that they are having a heart attack. This create a mass amount of FEAR as you could imagine. Below will be a list of common symptoms that go hand in hand with an anxiety attack.

Firstly what is an Anxiety attack?

Panic attacks symptoms are short, or long periods of intense FEAR and DISCOMFORT. an episode is abrupt and rapid, symptoms peak within seconds after a victim feels the onset of FEAR. Continue reading ‘Am I Having A Heart Attack Or Is It Panic Attacks Symptoms? – See How Similar They Are’ »

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How often do you hear the phrase “I’m so stressed out!” If you are like me you hear it quite often and from many different people!People feel pressure from many different sources. Those pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often we are ill-equipped to deal with those stressors that trigger anxiety and other feelings that can make us sick. Literally, sick.
The statistics are staggering. One in every eight Americans age 18-54 suffers from an anxiety disorder. This totals over 19 million people! Research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse by men.
Continue reading ‘Many People are Affected By Stress and Anxiety’ »

A direct overt reaction caused by anxiety is excessive sweating which is rather embarrassing. It is not always that if a person sweats, he is under stress. The medical term used to describe people perspiring extra under strain is called ‘hyperhidrosis.’ This may require surgery to rid them of excessive sweating but people under the spell of anxiety need not undergo surgery to overcome the bouts of sweating.

A few ways to tide over sweaty symptoms of nervousness are:

• Treat the condition of sweating due to worry at the grass root level. Getting rid of anxiety will automatically cure undue sweating. A sensible way to combat this highly embarrassing symptom is to get professional help of a therapist. This is a daunting task and involves several visits to good doctors before selecting the one the patient feels at ease with. Not all persons suffering from sweaty conditions willing want to seek out professional aid.

• Another method of conquering sweats is to relax completely. The aged old oriental method of meditation and yoga can help you tide over the condition of sweating arising out of mental strain. On-line books and support are available to help a patient to learn the art of meditation. Deep breathing and relaxation of muscles prove to be helpful to person suffering from this malady Continue reading ‘Dealing With Sweating Due to Anxiety’ »

Stress is a pervasive problem in society Today.

Everywhere you look people are talking about the doom and gloom in the economy, job losses etc. People are wondering how they will pay their mortgage what they will tell their children about the future on top of all the normal stresses and strains we deal with in everyday life.

When we are stressed out and worried constantly we can experience symptoms like irritability, muscle tension, sleeping difficulties etc. We cannot function at out best and cannot see clearly the decisions to make that are beneficial for us.

Continue reading ‘How To Stop Stress’ »

Children experience anxiety as part of their everyday life, fears at a young age are common, but there is a need for parents to know what is normal childhood fear, and what maybe a Anxiety Disorder. Young children often have a fear of going to the doctors, or of sleeping in the dark, at a slightly older age they may suffer anxiety when they first start kindergarten or their first day at school. This is normal but if the anxiety interferes with their everyday life, it should be treated as soon as possible.

Anxiety can start as early as 6 months old, babies may fear large objects, loud noise or separation. With toddlers and pre-school age children the fears may include being alone and darkness. School age children may fear ghosts, failure, tests criticism and like adults actual physical harm and threats. Younger children don’t worry like adult or older children, as they don’t have the mechanics to imagine future events or bad things associated with the future. Continue reading ‘Children Experience Anxiety Too’ »

Commonly misunderstood, anxiety can be kept under check. Over anxiety is dependent on our neurological make up. Anxiety is a learned behavior and is shaped by our social interactions with others at different stages of our lives and the way we are brought up. Human brain is the hub which initiates all our actions and reactions. Different people respond to anxiety in different ways. Some barricade themselves off completely while others prance around like a processed man.

To exemplify, take the case of George who puts up a barrier when he is anxious and depending upon the level of his anxiety, he continues to go about with his life normally with a few constraints. When under the spell of anxiety, George is able to concentrate only one subject at a time and that too on something that is not concerning his inner self.

He is able to finish the jobs at his place of work as they do not call for any kind of contemplation from his side and need not be inside his jurisdiction. On returning home, he becomes confused and gradually anxiety resurfaces as he has to look at various tasks which are not related to his office work. Continue reading ‘Mental Blockage – An Outcome of Anxiety’ »

I’d like to discuss anger’s role in the generation and sustenance of panic attacks and anxiety. To give the matter its due, I’ve decided to present the information in two parts. In this edition, part one, we’ll review what anger is in the eyes of the psychoanalysts and cognitivists. And in part two we’ll have a closer look at how anger directly impacts panic and anxiety. Well, are you ready? Let’s get to work.

The French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, a 20th Century pioneer in psychoanalysis, believed aggression is generated as a psychological defense against the threat of something known as fragmentation; the mental and emotional sense of losing control over self-cohesion. Now, fragmentation may present in a feeling of low-grade distress, or it may manifest in all-out panic and terror, for fear of total annihilation. Lacan took the whole matter to infancy where a human is simply a mish-mash of biological functions well beyond internal management. And the only goal one could have is to at least make an effort to pull everything together into some semblance of cohesive identity. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Anger: The Dynamics of Defense’ »