I'll be honest with you; this isn't a question I thought a lot about when I suffered from abnormal anxiety. I focused more on when my next panic attack was going to strike. Looking back though, I wish I had. Perhaps I would've understood what I needed to do sooner, or not. See, even after I knew what to do I stayed anxious anyway. It took a long time to go from "I get it," to "I truly understand." This, I think, explains why my two eBooks are so different. I recently had a reader email me this question: In the first book, you
Who Else Wants to Stop Hiding From Anxiety?
Isolation is not your friend. Isolation can lead to more anxiety, depression, and even a less fulfilled life. Many of you isolate to cope with intense anxiety. I used to do the same thing. When I used to get panicked - especially at night - I'd run to my room and close the door. I'd lay down for hours waiting for the anxiety to lift so that I could continue doing whatever I needed to. Eventually I reached a point where I could resist the urge to isolate. I learned that the more I challenged the urge to be alone the easier it became to
Panic Attacks in School
Today's guest post is brought to you by Marina Salsbury. She planned to be a teacher since high school, but found her way instead into online writing after college. She writes around the web about everything from education to exercise. Most college students can expect to deal with some stress and anxiety during their academic careers. Full-time students face heavy workloads from their classes, hours of studying most nights, and the pressure to earn good grades as they work towards their degrees. None of this is anything new,
Why is Anxiety so Stubborn?
Lately I've noticed an increase in people asking me this question: Why won't my anxiety go away? The short answer is because it's hard to forget. This has become AG's $64,000 question. I produced a short screen-cast to try to explain why this is, but just in case you want the text version, here it is. Human beings evolved over many millions of years and during that time our brains changed, expanded and adapted to the environment in incredible ways. However, despite all that cool evolution of the brain, there were still certain
How to Find a Doctor that Won’t Diss You
I got an interesting email today and I want to share part of it with you. It was written by a friend of mine describing his difficulty finding a descent doctor to help him with both a physical illness and the related anxiety that has decided to tag along. It went a little something like this: "Doctors won't even bother with things like diet, herbs, exercise or spiritual type stuff. They just want to give you the latest antidepressant and boot you out of the office. It was funny because after two hours [of seeing an alternative doctor] I
Do You Make This Mistake When Anxious?
Have you ever tried to explain your fears about being anxious to someone and said something like, "I know I'm OK but...?" On what probably feels like a thousand occasions you've said that you're doing pretty good. Yet inside you might still be holding on to lingering doubts about whether or not you're going to survive your next bout of anxiety. You've at times even convinced yourself that you'll handle the next heart attack scare, panic attack, or uncontrollable eye twitch with a lion's courage, that is, until it happens again and you
Why Alcohol Causes Anxiety: Part 2
All right, all right... I know this post might only appeal to the drinkers among you, but I just had to do a podcast on this topic. Today, I want to do more than just answer the question: Why does alcohol cause anxiety? I want to get into details, motives, and provide you with some information that I hope will help you to avoid the panic and worry associated with alcohol related anxiety. The deal is, I wrote about this topic a long time ago and it has become the most popular article on Anxiety Guru Dot Net, so elaborating on the
The Power of Perseverance
Right now you're enduring a lot. You're trying to live your life while you also navigate the difficulties of anxiety. Today, I want to share with you how you can do that better, so you can begin your journey toward recovery. Now, I know that sometimes you feel like you're hanging on by the thinnest of threads and that at any moment that thing is going to snap, sending you spiraling into madness, or something like that. Let me just say this: that ain't gonna happen. I can tell you what will happen though. You'll continue to think
The Dangers of Absolute Thinking
One of the best ways to stay anxious is to be inflexible. The biggest reason why many anxiety sufferers are inflexible is because they think in absolute terms. Everything is all or nothing. In other words, you don't just get chest pain, you get potential heart attacks. You don't just get headaches, but potential brain tumors and so on. Learning how to break the chains of absolute thinking is essential to getting rid of your abnormal anxiety. At the height of my anxiety illness I'd always rely on my best guess about what was going on
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