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Dealing with Anxiety Panic Attacks

July 24th, 2011

Dealing with Anxiety Panic Attacks

Article by Crizza Reyes

We all know that anxiety is a condition we cause. It only lingers when we don’t understand it or know how to reverse it. In general, it helps one cope. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder. And when we say panic attacks these are sudden surges of overwhelming fear that that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than having anxiety or the feeling of being ‘stressed out’ that most people experience.

If you want to know on how anxiety panic attacks works you can ask anyone who has ever suffered from these kind of disorder on how horrible they feels. Yeah, I know that many of us have probably had one and just didn’t know what it was. According to statistics by http://www.anxietypanic.com, one out of every seventy-five people worldwide will experience anxiety panic attacks once in their lives. Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, but when anxiety becomes excessive, even routine situations become dreaded. And here are some common symptoms of a panic attack, such as palpitations, hyperventilation, dizziness, chest pain, headache, tingling of the hands or arms, feeling sweaty or nauseous.

We should understand that these feelings of impending doom are not easy to get rid of once they start, especially when you’re sitting in a room full of people, or when you’re in the middle of Wal-Mart screaming silently in your head. Depersonalization and derealization can also occur with panic, like you are living in a dream, feeling that you are not really a part of what is going on around you, that you’re detached and looking from the outside in. As symptoms continue and intensify, avoidance behavior develops which can produce agoraphobia, causing the sufferer to restrict social interaction and retreat to safety until total withdrawal occurs. It’s important for people with anxiety panic attacks to learn all they can and be knowledgeable about the illness and the available treatments. There are many theories about what causes anxiety and panic disorder; is it biological, psychological or psycho dynamic, that is, is the disorder caused by a past experience or trauma?

Well, heres some sort of information I want to share it with you. According to my mother she used to call fear anxiety and depression the unholy Trinity. Although she was being melodramatic when she said it, it held a lot of truth for her. She always had some of the symptoms of anxiety attacks whenever things got tough for her. There are certain things she was phobic of and, no matter how much she did try to treat them, they never quite went away. Her fear anxiety symptoms, I am sorry to say, lasted from her childhood until the day of her death.

As for me, as a parents I want to raised my own kids, I vowed that nothing would give my children anxiety attacks. Sadly, there is only so much you can do as a parent. I don’t know what it is, but my youngest ended up having the same symptoms as my mother • ” fear anxiety and depression. There is only so much you can do as a parent to prevent certain conditions. What I really had to do was to get the kid treatment.

She got some relief from traditional methods. I didn’t want her to get drugs, but the doctor convinced me that anti anxiety medications would be very helpful to get the symptoms under control. Sure enough, once they were prescribed for her, she stopped having panic attacks. Then we got to the root cause of the fear anxiety. That required a lot of therapy. She went to a psychiatrist several times a week. That cost a lot of money, but it really helped her. Besides that, she started going to a children’s anxiety support group. In the long run, it worked wonders. Now she is a happy, healthy, well-adjusted kid. I am glad I stuck with her through all of it.

To all parents out there, if you have kid who suffers from fear anxiety, don’t waste time blaming yourself. It doesn’t so much matter who is at fault as what you can do to stop it. People now understand that fear anxiety is an extremely complicated thing. There is a genetic component, an emotional component, and a social component to it. Sorting it out can be a lot of work, but it is worth it. When you see your kids finally live panic free, you’ll know what it is to be a happy parent..

However even anxiety disorder recovery is attainable, there aren’t any “quick fix,” “miracle cures,” or “secret remedies” for it. Anxiety recovery requires accessing the right information, help, and support, then applying the right tools to bring about lasting success. Anyone can do it when they know how and have the proper support. But, lasting results can be attained. We know what it takes to return to lasting normal health because we’ve done it ourselves.

In fact the most commonly used treatments for anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias is a combination of medication and psychotherapy, including cognitive therapy to change negative thought processes and behavioral therapy to change daily habits. There are also drug-free therapies to induce relaxation, release tension, lower blood pressure, slow heart rate and breathing, in addition to meditation, hypnotherapy to overcome specific phobias, and other alternative therapies. For the most recent research and more about anxiety panic attacks and related topics, go online to National Panic & Anxiety Disorder News at www.npadnews.com. Information is updated regularly about new conventional and alternative treatments for anxiety disorders. If you feel like you have, or could be developing anxiety panic attacks, go online and take a self-screening test at one of many informative sites to see if your symptoms indicate an anxiety disorder.

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Dealing With Panic Attacks

July 10th, 2011

Dealing With Panic Attacks

Almost everyone has suffered from panic attacks and everyone who experienced this will agree that this is a terrible feeling. However, not everyone though can be good at dealing with panic attacks. It’s an experience that could physically drain you because of the sudden rush of adrenalin. The feeling comes along with rapidly beating heart beats, cold clammy sweat and poor digestive processes. Dealing with panic attacks takes a lot of sheer determination.       

Taking in medications are not always the best recourse in dealing with panic attacks because the effects will only be superficial. What you have to do is determine the root cause of your fears and evaluate the exact reason for your fears.   

You became fearful of the recurrence of a traumatic experience as a result of an accident, a failure to perform a certain action or an unforeseen delay or defect of something you greatly depended on. You tend to engulf yourself with unforeseen fears of worst case scenarios. Dealing with panic attacks means dealing with these fears with your own rationalization. 

Ask yourself what caused your previous failure or embarrassment. Let’s say you experienced standing in front a lot of people to speak publicly and totally went blank. The best thing you should do is to go through the same experience again but this time, do it well-prepared. In dealing with panic attacks, unless you admit that you had been over-confident and over estimated your ability to retain what you memorized you will never be able to overcome this fear.        

Ask yourself how realistic are your fears? You have been having these terrible headaches and despite the x-ray results, the doctor’s only diagnosis is that you are suffering from migraine. However, the occurrences of these headaches are causing you more distressing thoughts because you believe it is caused by a brain tumor. As a way of dealing with panic attacks, challenge your thoughts by going to another doctor for a second opinion or a third until you are fully satisfied with their diagnosis. You can even do your own research and find out about migraines and brain tumors.   

Dealing with panic attacks is not just a matter of being afraid of them but is also about engaging in proactive courses of actions. Examine where you went wrong before, in what areas were you remiss. Did you trust too much and allowed unauthorized use? Did you depend too much and totally let somebody else be in control? Was it caused by a natural catastrophe that was totally beyond anybody’s control? 

Why not be like the others who succeeded in dealing with panic attacks? They saw themselves as larger than their fears; hence, they were able to overcome the distressing thoughts that ate away at their systems.

Written by ja_schmidt

Dealing With Life: Background Music

July 6th, 2011

What if we had background music? Think it would be cool? I don’t…. Songs: Ke$ ha-Tik Tok Mayday Parade-Get Up The Racounteurs-Steady As She Goes Panic! At The Disco-I Write Sins Not Tragedies Sittin On A Toilet Rick Rolled Scotty Vanity-Hey There Ok Go-Don’t Ask Me Jacks Mannequin-I’m Ready Countdown-All Star One Republic-Stop And Stare Blink 182-Down Simple Plan-Shut Up 30 Seconds To Mars-Attack The Academy Is-Black Mamba MC Hammer-Can’t Touch This Justin Beiber-Baby Metro Station-Shake It Fatty Spins-Doing Your Mom Decyfer Down-Crash Communist Rolled Plus 44-Baby Come On 12 Stones-Lie To Me Paramore-Cushcrushcrush The Devil Wears Prada-Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over Nightmare-Deah Note Soundtrack Mayday Parade-I Swear This Time I Mean It Plain White T’s-Hate Blink 182-I Wanna F**k A Dog In The Ass
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Paranoid Android Radiohead OK Computer Please could you stop the noise, Im trying to get some rest From all the unborn chicken voices in my head Whats there? (I may be paranoid, but not an android) Whats there? (I may be paranoid, but not an android) When I am king, you will be first against the wall with your opinion which is of no consequence at all Whats there? (I may be paranoid, but no android) Whats there? (I may be paranoid, but no android) Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing gucci little piggy You dont remember You dont remember Why dont you remember my name? Off with his head, man Off with his head, man Why dont you remember my name? I guess he does Rain down, rain down Come on rain down on me From a great height From a great height height Rain down, rain down Come on rain down on me From a great height From a great height height Rain down, rain down Come on rain down on me Thats it sir Youre leaving The crackle of pigskin The dust and the screaming The yuppies networking The panic, the vomit The panic, the vomit God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah.
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On Dealing With Panic Attacks

July 3rd, 2011

On Dealing With Panic Attacks

If you or someone you know has ever dealt with a panic attack, you know what it feels like to be sure the sky is going to fall on your head while still knowing it never will. Your heart races, you just have to throw up, even if you can’t, and your mind feels like it has a mind of its own. When I went through several months of panic attacks myself, I kept thinking to find ways to overcome an attack. Let me try to share with you some of my special methods, the best ones that worked for me.
Even if everyone does have their own unique form of the panic attack, there is a common thread that runs through most of them. Most people feel dizziness, nausea and a racing heart rate. People often complain of feeling like everything is closing in on them and they feel a kind of hopelessness that makes dealing with panic attacks very difficult. They say that a panic attack is about the worst thing a person can feel.

Bringing a doctor in to consult with for your problem is the very first thing you should do.A doctor usually starts out by first telling you to breathe into a paper bad when you feel an attack coming on. Why do they ask you to do that? It’s because when you breathe fast when you really aren’t exerting yourself physically and there is no demand for extra oxygen, you send oxygen levels up in your blood far above what they should be. This condition is known as hyperventilation. Breathing into a paper bag deprives you of a chance to take in more oxygen than the excess you already have and lets you balance out the oxygen and carbon dioxide in your system.

A panic attack always left me feeling vulnerable, kind of like there was impending doom right around the corner. The place you’re in when you have a panic attack becomes associated in the mind with the fear felt, and can often bring on another panic attack or make it difficult for you to come out of one. The best thing to do then dealing with panic attacks would be to get out of the place you’re in when the attack sets in and go somewhere neutral in the outdoors. You can no longer feel trapped in the great outdoors.

The craziest thing about a panic attack is that you feel what you feel in spite of knowing fully well deep inside, that everything is going to be okay. You start to doubt your sanity. This isn’t anything about  going crazy though. It’s just that your brain is triggering a fight or flight response for no reason. With the adrenaline pumping and the defense mechanisms on high alert, there’s little you can do but feel the tension. Listend to some slow music that has a bit of rhythm (my favorite usually was That’s the Way Love Goes by Janet Jackson). I call a friend and have him talk me down as long as it doesn’t happen too often. As you can see, dealing with panic attacks is something that you are indeed capable of. If only you can really convince yourself that there’s nothng really wrong with you.

Written by andrebni

Dealing With Social Anxiety

June 16th, 2011

Dealing With Social Anxiety

A speech in front of a hundred people…. but an audience of millions watching on national television. Sounds scary right? Absolutely.  It is not an exaggeration to say that there are so many people who are totally terrified of standing in front of a crowd.  

        Being shy is a normal human reaction to meeting new people or standing before a crowd of total strangers.  But there are those who are extremely shy that being in a social activity, group event, or a simple party is a no-no.  Even just being around people and the thought of being watched by other people gives them butterflies!

        According to the Social Anxiety Association, people with this disorder are often misdiagnosed  as having a condition called schizophrenia.  Others think that extremely shy people are suffering from manic depression or some other personality disorder.  But people with Social Anxiety Disorder have a much more serious condition that just having the feeling of having flying insects inside the gut. 

        Ordinary people experience shyness and some can actually fight off their instinct to clam up and shut up.  Others have it better like extroverts who thrive on social interaction.  But for people afflicted with serious social anxiety are often misunderstood, ridiculed, and resented by other so-called  normal people.  Genetics, social and cultural influences, and psychological factors also contribute to social anxiety.

        By knowing that a person has this type of anxiety disorder, or any other anxiety attacks for that matter, the immediate solution is often to ask for a doctor to prescribe anti-anxiety medication.   People dealing with social disorders can resort to the use of prescription drugs, coupled with counseling sessions.  Anxiety medication is most effective when it is followed by one-on-one discussions with a therapist who could provide valuable information and tips to manage the symptoms of the disorder.          To recover from their problems, people with anxiety disorders need to gradually open up through therapy, consultations, or group psychotherapy treatments. All these will help out in dealing with their status, to start being open to other people.  Eventually, patients in therapy would learn how to manage their feelings. Exposing them to proper group discussions, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and other effective anxiety medications can help them cure themselves without the use of drugs. Being socially inactive is really based on your personality and how a person sees himself in a positive manner.  Anti-anxiety medications, however, must be taken only with the advice and approval of a doctor.  The unregulated use of these medications may lead to serious side effects.  
    Each of us is unique. Being afflicted with social anxiety disorder is not the end of one’s life…there is hope.  Confidence, self-esteem, and good old-fashioned guts will help people with social anxiety go out of their shell of extreme shyness and insecurity.   By taking steps to get healing and help, even the most socially-averse individuals can get treatment that is necessary to restore their lives and allow them to pursue fulfillment in their everyday relationships with people.
 

Written by nickdivine
Music is my muse, I daydream a lot, I have O.C.D, I am a germ-a-phobe, I love to organize, I don’t like messy.

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