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Recognizing Anxiety Symptoms
Jun 28th
Everyone experiences moments of unease or panic. You’ve said the wrong thing or locked your keys in the car. The situation is resolved and those feelings go away. At least, for most of us, they do. For over two million Americans, they are a constant feeling of helplessness and hopelessness.
Anxiety symptoms range can vary, depending on whether or not your anxiety disorder is specific or generalized. They can be both psychological and physical. Every person is different; each can experience different symptoms and still have the same diagnosis of anxiety disorder.
Anxiety symptoms include interference with sleep and nightmares. These can really hinder your everyday life, as you must battle feelings of exhaustion on top of anxiety. These can also intensify other anxiety symptoms, such as irritability or confusion.
Anxiety symptoms such as self-consciousness and insecurity can lead to avoidance of social activities. Feelings of restlessness often create a strong urge to escape from any social situation. This creates a tense situation for the anxiety symptom sufferer.
Some anxiety symptoms manifest physically as well. Heart palpitations, otherwise known as an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath can lead anxiety disorder sufferers to fear they are having a heart attack. Nausea, frequent urination, and diarrhea can be mistaken for the flu or other viruses.
Sweating is another anxiety symptom, which can be embarrassing for the sufferer in public situations. Hot flashes or chills are also common. Tremors can lead to muscle aches and tension, which make the anxiety disorder patient even more uncomfortable.
The cause of anxiety symptoms can be found in changes to the amygdala, which is an organ in the brain. The amygdala is involved in emotions of fear and aggression. This is where anxiety disorder is created and where it continues to haunt its host until treated. The amygdala becomes over stimulated by stress or other emotional factors. The body responds accordingly and creates anxiety symptoms. Once the pattern is started, it is stored for repetition in the amygdale.
Your family doctor will need to rule out a physical cause for anxiety symptoms. As pointed out above, these symptoms can mimic other physical ailments such as thyroid disorders, insulin disorders, asthma, and certain heart conditions. Once those have been examined and rejected as cause, your doctor will likely refer you to a psychotherapist.
A psychotherapist will be able to help you identify the triggers for your anxiety symptoms. You will learn new ways to deal with stress and other emotional factors. A therapist might also ask that your family doctor prescribe you with anti-anxiety medications.
There are also holistic treatment options which have been found to be helpful when dealing with anxiety symptoms. Acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and relaxation techniques can be used in conjunction with any other therapeutic means or on their own.
You can also help yourself by doing the following: exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, eating a healthy diet, eliminating caffeine. Also, make sure that you surround yourself with supportive friends and family. Anxiety symptoms can be beat with the right tools.
Anxiety – What is an Anxiety Symptom?
Sep 10th
Am I having a heart attack? Am I dying? Or is it anxiety? Many symptoms of anxiety mirror symptoms of other illnesses. This is because the “fight or flight” response is triggered in anxiety attacks and the body will respond as if it is threatened. The heart will race; the breathing will become shallow, sweats will breakout over the body to keep it cool in preparation for flight, these are all signs of anxiety, or an anxiety attack. Attacking anxiety back and regaining control over your reflex responses will help reduce the number, frequency and severity of your anxiety symptoms.
When an Anxiety Symptoms is Harmful and When it Isn’t
There is a wide range of anxiety symptoms that may be no more than a mild feeling of uneasiness and as intense as extreme fear. In some cases, a little amount of anxiety is good and normal and it may even help to improve a person’s performance. There are features like having heart palpitations or a racing heart as well as a lot of sweating that point in the direction of being an anxiety symptom. Symptoms such as irritability and lack of concentration as well as having strange thoughts and having extreme mood changes are psychological symptoms.
Treating Anxiety Stress Symptoms
One may wonder as to what the causes of anxiety symptoms are and who the people at greatest risk are. The answer lies in the fact that anxiety symptoms are a result of anxiety disorders which may occur due to a change in the way amygdale, which is a small organ in the subconscious brain, reacts. This is also known as anxiety switch. For treatment to be effective, there is a need for concentrating directly on these symptoms and the treatment should be aimed at the root causes of any anxiety disorders, which in other words, is an inappropriate reaction of the amygdale.
It may be noted that everybody may have experienced anxiety symptoms at some point of time in their lives and most are able to effectively deal with such situations. When there is a lot of unusual rise in the adrenaline levels in the blood it sets off a chain reaction of normal but wrong reactions which results in powerful anxiety symptoms that greatly affect the person afflicted.
There are also instances of some people experiencing symptoms when there is no obvious cause and these are known as free-floating symptoms that can be discontinuous in nature or may continue over a longer period of time. Some even have situational anxiety wherein the anxiety symptoms can be correlated with particular situations.
One may also wonder whether anxiety symptoms are harmful and the answer is certainly not. They do not cause harm to the person even though they elicit a sense of horror and scare the person but in effect anxiety symptoms are not harmful, being exaggerations of normal body sensations and reactions. It bears repeating that to treat anxiety symptoms, one has to address the root cause, which lies in the amygdale, where anxiety is created and stored as well as sustained.
Overcoming Anxiety Natural Treatments
Apr 3rd
Panic attacks and anxiety attacks occur when you get caught up in your irrational, out of control thoughts. Anxiety and panic attacks are the same phenomena, with panic being a more high pitched anxiety attack.
In the old days (that is what I call my post doctoral training at the Behavior Therapy Unit at Temple Medical School in the 1970′s) we used systematic desensitization. We taught people to relax their body and then had them imagine the things they were afraid of in small steps until they were no longer afraid.
Flooding was another technique we used where we would expose people to the anxiety stimuli they were afraid of all at once until their anxiety diminished.
Both approaches are effective in helping you unlearn maladaptive anxiety responses to situations. However, they only help in dealing with the surface phobias, stress anxiety and fears that are already in your conscious mind. These techniques do not deal with the source, the root cause of your anxiety in the first place.
I want to get to the bottom line for more permanent and long lasting results. Why not work at the source, the root of what is causing your out of control mental anxiety disorder state in the first place?
When you are in the middle of a panic attack or anxiety attack you are hyperventilating. At the Behavior Therapy Unit, we were trained to say, “Shut your mouth and breathe through your nose.”
This immediately helps because when you are hyperventilating you have too much oxygen, not too little. During a panic attack, shutting your mouth helps balance your oxygen intake and calm your autonomic nervous system down. This first step is easy to implement.
Try this natural treatment for an anxiety attack right this minute. It will help you can slow down and calm down so you can absorb the rest of this anxiety natural help article. Your anxious breathing will stop as soon as you shut your mouth and breathe though your nose.
People in touch with anxiety disorder symptoms and fear have a chance to get help in overcoming their anxiety. Success can be achieved by looking at the source and finding natural treatments.
Sensitive people are usually the ones who experience anxiety symptoms the most. Adults and children need anxiety help, treatment and natural therapy instead of drugs and psychotherapy.
To succeed with your anxiety natural self help program you need to learn about the huge difference between anxiety and real fear. Knowing the difference between a real fear and what is an irrational, out of control obsessive thought pattern is essential to your success. To learn more read or listen to, “Opening the Heart” which teaches you the important difference in these two energies.
Anxiety panic in humans is like lightning. In Nature lighting is immediately grounded. In humans, the panic, the anxiety which is the lighting —is never grounded. This is the reason an anxiety disorder is such a serious problem.
In humans, the anxiety panic energy flies all over the place scaring you and everyone else to death. If lightning in nature really did fly all over the place, the real world would be chaotic and it would be very, very scary.
But lightning does not fly all over the place. It is immediately grounded. The real world is not chaotic, out of control or scary. So there is a serious problem with humans when we disconnect from the laws of Nature.
The mind body conclusion seems obvious, your human energy must be literally plugged into the ground with gravity in order for you to feel safe. To learn how to do this join one of Dr. Jeanette’s anxiety classes or take her affordable, anxiety e course online.
You need to feel your physical body, especially your feet, so there is a direct connection between you and Mother Earth. It is simple, when you are not connected to gravity, you are going to experience panic and anxiety.
After you have learned to recognize your panic, sit down and breathe through your nose. Next you want to feel the real fear that is underneath the panic.
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Verbal therapy, talk therapy, psychotherapy just doesn’t touch the chaos in the lining of your stomach. Stay away from drugs, they are dangerous and do nothing to solve your anxiety or panic.
Get in touch with your real fears and your real body and you start to feel safer on the planet.
It is impossible to have a panic or anxiety attack when your awareness is in your body. The anxiety comes from getting carried away into your irrational thoughts!!
Do not spend another day or night in an out of control anxious state. Get safe, effective anxiety natural self help solutions so you can feel good about yourself.