"In panic attacks feeling follows thought so swiftly it is as if thought and feeling are one " - Dr. Claire Weekes So there you are lying in bed when all of a sudden your heart starts to pound and feels like it's going to leap from your chest. You stop thinking and become overwhelmed by the physical sensations that started in your gut, back or chest. And in what seems like seconds you become convinced that you're about to die. Having a panic attack is analogous to a drag race. It starts fast, reaches climax in a flash and winds down
New Study Finds That Chewing Gum Good For Anxiety
When I was a kid chewing gum was a semi-sinful food. Apparently the threat of having it stuck under a desk or somebodies shoe was enough to create a freakishly long list of rules regulating its consumption. But alas gum is much more than just a public nuisance. A new study from Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia has shown that chewing gum can help relieve stress and anxiety. And that’s not all, gum chewing can also help you focus while multitasking according to the new research findings. The study was conducted by splitting the
How To Use Breathing to Reduce Anxiety
Many of us have heard of various types of breathing techniques meant to calm the nerves but just as many of us never actually try them. Some people feel strange doing breathing techniques that have strange sounding names and seem rather complicated. However although you may be reluctant you should at least consider using breathing to reduce your stress and anxiety. Learning how to breathe to reduce anxiety is a useful way of helping us when we get nervous or have a full blown panic attack. This is not just because breathing deeply and slowly
What Smart People Say About Fear and Anxiety
Have you ever had a thought and heard someone else say or write something similar but way better? Yea me too and it happens very frequently. There is something special about a set of words that becomes a reference. It's usually a basic insight that you have had but could never articulate. Here you'll find some of those sets of words that have become mantras in many lives and potential ammo for our hope of living a life free of anxiety. 1. "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live". - Dorothy Thompson This is a
Dietary Supplements For Anxiety – What Works?
As you may or may not know I am not a huge fan of synthetic drugs. I instead encourage anxiety sufferers to find other means of managing their anxiety disorders before trying anti-anxiety medications. One of the most popular alternatives to anti-anxiety dope are dietary supplements. Today I want to explore the safety and effectiveness of five supplements commonly used to combat anxiety. Do they work and should we even bother? First I'd like to clear the air a bit and preface this article by letting you know that I am not an anti-drug
Why Having An Anxiety Disorder Does Not Mean You’re Crazy
One of the most common symptoms of anxiety disorder is the belief that you're going crazy. You have the sense that you are losing your grip on reality and that you are literally on the verge of a mental breakdown. Anxiety disorder can cause a deep seated fear that sooner or later you're simply going to go mad. However, despite this overwhelming fear of possible insanity, the fact that you fear it, and are aware of insanity as a state of being, is precisely why you're not crazy. Crazy means a lot things to a lot of people, however, for
Can Anxiety Disorders Cause Memory Loss?
Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you went in there in the first place? This happens countless times to most of us. But if you have chronic bouts of forgetfulness it could be your anxiety causing the mental miscues. This is because stress, anxiety, and even depression, can cause memory loss and mental haze. Too much stress over long periods of time can hinder brain function in a major way. One of the reasons for this is because when you become stressed your body releases a stress hormone called cortisol . This hormone, which is
The Modern Anxiety Epoch
As an anxiety sufferer it is normal to feel like you're all alone in the world. But according to some studies you are part of a growing number of people with an anxiety disorder. Some scientist believe that as much as 16% of the worlds population will have prolonged anxiety during their lifetime. That means that out of the worlds current population of 6.6 billion people a little over a billion of us will have problems with anxiety. Clearly you have plenty of company and you are by no means a special case. In fact, anxiety disorder is one of
No Adrenaline Please
Going to the dentist is a much hated proposition for many people but if you have an anxiety disorder this can be an extraordinary ordeal of cosmic proportions. O.K. that was clearly an exaggeration however it can really be difficult to go and see a dentist if you have a "nervous problem". In my last post (Dental Debacle ) I wrote about my hellish visit to the dentist. It was all related to an "overdose" or more accurately a misplacement of local anesthetic that contained adrenaline without me knowing it. And although I did include a no
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