Nationalgeographic.com reports that Denis Pare of Rutgers University and his team of really smart people have uncovered the cluster of cells in the brains amygdala called ITC neurons that aide in fear production and control. This discovery may have a profound effect on your anxiety disorder. The research conducted at Rutgers has revealed that cells in the brain called ITC neurons are critical for fear management. The researchers pointed out that controlling these cells would not zap fear, but rather control fear and the context in which it
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Angelina Jolie Having Panic Attacks
According to Celebrity Fix and Star magazine Angelina Jolie has been hyperventilating and having panic attacks. A source close to Jolie has revealed that she is scared about the birth of her twins. Jolie is apparently concerned that her new babies will not mesh well with the other kids and she is also concerned about the prospect of breast feeding two hungry babies. The "source" also stated that Jolie's voice is shrilled when she begins to panic and needs to be consoled by those close to her. Could there be more to this story? I'd say yea
Anxiety and Phobias
Anxiety disorder is fear on tap and as a result you are vulnerable to the development of phobias. Take me for example, I have had anxiety disorder for over 9 years and during that time I have developed a fear of flying, fear of the dark, and walking on streets that have a lot of cars passing through them. Being scared of everything is not unique to you and I either. According to couriermail.com.au a British hypnotherapists named Joseph Clough has conducted a survey of more than 1000 people which showed that 1 in 5 of those folks has some
Anxiety Looking Game
Do you ever feel like people are staring at you? Of course we all look at each other when in public, but do you ever feel like everyone is looking at you as you walk past them? I still get this feeling even though I understand that in the whole scheme of things I'm not that special. I was in Costco (super discount store) the other day and felt like everybody was checking me out. Although my rational mind told me that no one in that entire building was all that interested in me in particular, I swore that they were. This is uncomfortable
Is Mental Illness Real?
I just read an article in the American Chronicle that gives a scathing criticism of psychology and psychiatry and describes this profession as a "significantly inventive profession". The articles author Lourdes Salvador goes on to essentially bash the entire psychiatric profession and explains that people with mental illness are labeled incorrectly as abnormal and basically drugged up for being different. She argues that people are labeled mentally ill by psychologist and psychiatrist simply because their patients do not behave and or
The Anxiety Guru Show: Morning Nerves Ep 5
Show Notes For many people with anxiety disorder the morning can be a difficult time because it can feel like the start of another difficult day. This can be disheartening because you may have gone to bed the night before and thought that the next day was going to be better. At times you may wake up feeling nervous/anxious, sad, still have physical symptoms as if you never went to sleep. Why do you feel this way? Exactly why is unknown as I haven't been able to find any convincing answers, however, I will say because your anxiety
Learning To Accept Your Anxiety
Learning how to accept your anxiety disorder is actually very difficult. This is because our natural instinct is to fight our anxiety symptoms and do all you can to push your anxious thoughts and feelings out of our mind. But in fact, really accepting your anxiety disorder is perhaps the best way to manage and ultimately eliminate anxiety from your life. Sometimes when people ask you to accept something you really don't fully accept it. What a lot of us do instead is just put up with whatever the issue is. However, in order to really
Top 10 Most Hated Anxiety Symptoms
Of the tons of anxiety symptoms that you have or have ever had are there a few that you really hate? I have to say that I don't like any of the symptoms, but if I had to choose between this symptom or that symptom, then I definitely have a preference. Here is my top ten list of most hated anxiety disorder symptoms. 1. Palpitations 2. Depersonalization 3. Urgency 4. Muscle twitching, Numbness 5. Dizziness 6. Head ache, stabbing pains in head or scalp. 7. Easily startled 8. Chest pain 9. Fear of losing control 10.
Anxiety Disorder and Your Fear of Death
"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained" -- Robert Albert Bloch The fact is you and me are going to die someday. This prospect scares untold amounts of people, and I would venture to say that the vast majority of people have at least some fear of this inevitable personal tragedy. But when you have an anxiety disorder it can actually creep into your mind on a regular basis and become a part of your stream of fear as Mr. Robert Bloch put