Being an anxious person is a shocking experience. No part of becoming or staying anxious is easy. A lot of that has to do with the huge amount of change that you undergo when your life is turned upside down by anxiety. Everything suddenly becomes about what you should or shouldn't do to avoid being anxious, or about how anxiety is going to tear down your health or make you go crazy. Hard change, indeed. Facing change of any kind can be hard on anybody, but for you it's a monumental struggle. Anxiety causes you to live in a constant
Attention: Anxiety Does Not Cause Insanity
The fear of going crazy is common among anxiety sufferers. Actually, and unfortunately, this fear is almost universal among the nervous. However, this fear is also unjustified because anxiety does not cause insanity. No part of anxiety can make you crazy, even if you sit around thinking that insanity is imminent. What I want to share with you is that you think that you're going to go nuts not because you are, but because you're under a lot of stress. This in turn causes a great deal of worry and introspection. But that's about it.
The Fight Against Anxiety Goes Mobile!
As smartphone technology improves, so will the apps for these versatile devices. There are currently thousands of apps available for the iPhone and Android phone systems and their utility keeps growing by the second. These apps can do everything, from showing you where the nearest restaurants are, all the way to helping you figure out the best deal on a new pair of shoes, as you shop! In fact, there are now anti-anxiety apps as well, and today we're going to tell you about one in particular called "At Ease." Anxiety Guru contributor
Four Critical Things Every Anxiety Sufferer Should Know
Remember way back when you were a kid and life was simple, or at least simple--er? The good ole days, right? Well, unlike your days as a young'un, today your faced with lots of distractions. Nothing is simple anymore. In fact, I'd say that much of your life's simplicity has been taken away by all the distractions that anxiety throws at you. Distraction has steered you away from seeing the big picture, which has probably also caused your anxiety to grow stronger than it needs to be. So today I want to talk to you about four things that
The Connection Between Anxiety and Depression
photo credit: dailyinvention In this episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I explore the connection between anxiety and depression. I also talk about what you can do to cope with both of them. I thought it was important to talk about depression because many anxiety sufferers have to deal with it. It can be really confusing and frustrating to be scared and sad at the same time, so I wanted to provide a short guide to help those feeling like there's no hope for the future. Anxiety and depression in some ways are joined at the hip. So that
Instant Peace of Mind
She jumped out of bed in a panic at 4 am. Unable to focus, she staggered out of the front door and started running down the street. She stopped about ten houses down and stood motionless in the dark; chilled by the cold. That happened about 3 years ago, and the terrified woman it happened to is my aunt. That's the story she told me at my mom's house on Thanksgiving day. She'd never talked about her panic before, but on that day she opened up about her 20 year struggle with anxiety. She told me about how she'd always felt like
How is an Anxiety Disorder Diagnosed?
Every disease has a group of signs and symptoms. Anxiety Disorders are no different. However, anxiety disorders are peculiar in that there is no way to test for them. You can't draw blood, or provide some other kind of sample that will tell a doctor if you're sick with nerves. So then, how are anxiety disorders diagnosed? Excellent question. It starts with a visit to your doctor. During the visit your doctor will: 1. Review your medical history. 2. Ask you about your symptoms. 3. Test you for everything that's related to your
How to Cure Abnormal Anxiety
Some time ago, you set out on a journey to cure your abnormal anxiety. And up to this point that journey has been a miserable failure. But that's not your fault. It just takes time. It takes time to find the thing that's keeping you anxious. Today, I want to help you bring your long journey to an end. So to start, let's go way back. Back to when this all got started. Do you remember your first panic attack? And what about those long days filled with nervousness? I know I do. During those early days chances are that you were
The Stone Age Origins of Anxiety
You ever wonder why you feel out of control sometimes when you're anxious? Almost like a primitive being or something? Well, it's because -- at your core -- you're still a caveman/woman. Think about it, if you take away your house, car, iPod, cell phone, and all your other modern gizmos, you're nothing more than a semi-hairless ape, albeit a good looking one. See, in the past 200,000 years humans haven't changed all that much. In fact, with the exception of some major behavioral adaptions about 50,000 years ago, we're fundamentally
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