As many of you know there are six different types of anxiety disorders. Social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic disorder, general anxiety disorder and the broad category of phobias. Of all these terrible disorders general anxiety disorder is perhaps one of the worse since it incorporates many of the symptoms and characteristics of the others.

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It’s been awhile since I published a podcast so I decided to do a podcast round up which basically consist of recent issues I’ve talked about on the blog. Here is a short list of some of the things I covered on this podcast.

1. State of the world and why this should not concern you as much as the news would have you believe.

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Who knew that those that suffer from mental ailments had their own global holiday? I didn’t. It turns out that Friday October 10, 2008 was World Mental Health Day.

This mental health initiative is the creation of the World Federation for Mental Health or the WFMH . The stated goal of this quasi holiday slash global mental health awareness movement states as it’s priority the "scaling up of services through citizen advocacy and action".

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When it comes to anxiety disorders and their effect on our health there are more assumptions and myths than you can imagine. Some of these myths are based in fact but are not entirely accurate hence their myth status. The connection between anxiety and blood pressure is one of the most common of these semi-myths.

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Will your anxiety ever get better? This is the million dollar question for many folks that struggle with anxiety. The answer to this question is yes but there is a caveat.

The reason I say yes is because in my own experience I have been through terrible periods of intense anxiety and fear only to come out “normal” for a time. The caveat lies in our inability or more likely unwillingness to face our fears and challenge them squarely.

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“throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pain” - Democritus

The word vice is rather strong when you think about it. It is defined as “a moral depravity or corruption”. In my view and for our purposes a vice is something less and is generally something we should avoid or at least not over do. Anxiety sufferers have to deal with so much it’s no wonder that many of us turn to vice for relief and why vice becomes a coping tool.

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Does Anxiety make you fat? Or a better question might be does the stress related with having chronic anxiety make one gain weight? Well like most things there are at least two schools of thought on the issue and I agree with both.

When researching anything I always suggest looking for various viewpoints. If you go in looking for an answer chances are you’ll find something to reinforce what you thought was the right answer.

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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do” - Epictetus

Sometimes anxiety becomes more then just kind of a problem. It can in fact turn into an all consuming negative force that erodes your ability to hope. But when things get hard what we have to do is take a moment to realize how much we can affect ourselves.

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As an anxiety sufferer you may spend a lot of time concerned about your immediate health. You may spend a great deal of time wondering what exactly is going to kill you since your convinced your about to die.

But although you worry generally you still have that small rational thought pattern that somehow reassures you that you are in fact healthy. So there you are going back and forth about the connection between your nerves and your health. Well it turns out all that worry was not baseless brain babble.

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For many of us our anxiety disorders feel like they sprang up out of the blue as it were. But were there any signs that one was developing a long lasting and sometimes torturous sense of apprehension and negative physical feeling? Or was it always there and we now simply see things different?

Although children can have anxiety disorders it seems that adults are the ones that exhibit physical and mental exacerbation with the condition. Do kids have a better handle on this or is it a case of ignorance being bliss?

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