Recently I ranted on the Anxietyguru.net forum about my current anxiety episode. For the past 10 days I've been in the midst of a terrible anxiety ordeal. In the past I've spoken about the two types of anxiety, the physical and mentally based kind. Well my current state of anxiety is fully mental and sadly rather debilitating. But this post is not really about that. What I actually wanted to say is that as a result of being in so much mental distress I've been searching for information to reinforce all I know about anxiety to help me
More About The Causes Of Anxiety Disorders
As of today scientist don't know what causes anxiety disorders but they have some good guesses. Click the image to read about what those guesses are. Do you have a theory about the origin of anxiety disorders?
How To Overcome Your Fear Of Anxiety Symptoms
Being anxious is one thing, but thinking that you're about to die because of your anxiety is a different sport altogether. The "normal" person will experience anxiety and shrug it off. Anxiety sufferers on the other hand, tend to wallow in their anxiety because it's often accompanied by ten thousand symptoms that make an anxious person think death is imminent. Although I'm skeptical that anxiety disorders are curable, I do believe they are manageable. One of the most important things that an anxious person can do to manage their nerves is
Fear and Anticipation
Much of our problem as anxiety sufferers lies not only in the "now" moments of anxiety attacks and symptoms but also in the "maybe" of these same things. To a large degree I think it's the maybe that causes most of our angst and worry since it stimulates and prolongs the very emotions and feelings we hate so much. In his 1872 work called The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that "if we expect to suffer, we are anxious; if we have no hope of relief, we despair".
Headbanger: Anxiety and Headaches
One of the the symptoms that you are bound to develop if you have an anxiety disorder are headaches. The headaches themselves are as varied as all the other symptoms. In other words, you can have different types of headaches of varying severity and frequency. The most common is called a tension headache. This kind of headache typically makes you feel like you have a metal band around your head. The pain is mild to moderate and it bugs you because it feels like something is touching your head from the outside. These can occur frequently and
Vets Sue VA Over Mental Health Care
A few days I ago I wrote a post touting the efforts of the Department of Defense for trying to bolster their efforts aimed at raising PTSD awareness among servicemen. A few days after reading that story I came across another story aired by the NPR show All Things Considered that basically took all the air out of that feel good balloon. According to the report, which was aired March 3, 2008, a group representing the vets called the Disability Rights Advocates is suing The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) over the poor quality and outright
Anxiety Juice: Adrenaline
So, when you feel an episode of anxiety and panic overtaking you, what exactly is going on inside your body? Most of the symptoms that I used to complain about the most were a racing heart rate, uncontrolled breathing, sweating, and the feeling that I wanted to bolt down the street running (FEAR). Sometimes when we are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety our bodies react by releasing a chemical called adrenaline, or what I call 'anxiety juice.' You can think of adrenaline as the fuel behind a lot of the symptoms and sensations that you
Work Anxiety
Having anxiety disorder is bad enough, but having anxiety disorder and working in cubicle world is even worse. Before we moved into a new office we had cubes that were tall enough so that people could not see me without coming over to visit. Now the cubes are just below shoulder level so everyone can see me, all day long. If I didn't have anxiety this would not be a big deal, but because I have a high stress profession (talk about irony) I don't feel like I can have any me time and not do anything for a few minutes every now and then. With