When you think about these things, your body reacts. Your heart is pounding like a thousand drums. You are having a shortness of breath, profuse sweating, an upset stomach, dizziness, nausea, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, uptight muscles and cold hands.

If you are experience these, you may be experiencing anxiety disorder.

When you experience an anxiety attack, you would think that it is the end of the world. There are some who say that having a panic attack is like one step closer to dying. It is no laughing matter. For those who are experiencing such pressure, it is as legitimate as they come.

Is there an anxiety disorder treatment that one can do practically?

One way to help solve these anxiety attacks is by looking for professional doctors and psychological therapists. They will give you the correct treatment, which may come in different forms.

A doctor can prescribe medicine that will help you calm down. Medication can lower your heart rate and will have a calming effect. Of course, be warned of the possibilities of overdose. Once you start taking these medicines like crazy, there will be more trouble coming. These are not candy. These prescriptions must be taken as directed by your physician.

How about considering behavioral therapies? What is it? Behavioral therapies are confrontational sessions on fear, which is done by your therapist. In doing this, the doctor is making you understand the cause of fear and that there is nothing to be afraid of. This is a big step in overcoming anxiety attacks. It will lessen or even eliminate your present and future panic attack episodes. Remember, it will take time and will not happen instantly. Progress may be slow but remain hopeful.

Let us talk about relaxation techniques. Relaxation techniques are considered one of the most practical ways of healing the anxiety attacks. How do we do this? Try heavy breathing. You read it right.

Do you know that heavy breathing helps lower your heart rate? Takes long hard deep breathes in long slow paces. Inhale through your nose. Exhale out through your mouth. Breathe in. Breathe out. Try closing your eyes while doing this. Listen to yourself breath. Feel the sense of calmness. Notice a gentle drop in your heart rate and pulse. Keep doing it until you feel relaxed.

Visualization techniques are also helpful. You can do this together with your heavy breathing. Try this. Close your eyes and picture that you are in a happy place like your favorite beach scene or your favorite vacation spot. The point is for your mind to be distracted from the panic and be attracted to the good things.

In dealing with panic attacks, your mind is the ultimate battleground. And with the proper anxiety disorder treatment that you have learned today, we hope you can be confident in fighting this disease and win. You can do it!

Rob Francis had a history of panic attacks, and now enjoys a panic-free life, teaching others how to grab hold of this disorder and overcome it. His newest book, “Help My Panic Attacks,” teaches 10 steps on everything they need to know about the disorder and how-to overcome it. Visit http://www.helpmypanicattacks.com

Anxiety Disorder Treatment

In modern times anxiety is commonly accepted as any other minor ailment. Acknowledgment of anxiety is of prime importance towards remedial treatment. The more the severity of anxiety, the more complicated the management process of it. A person who is gripped by anxiety for the first time, becomes more susceptible to future attacks. This is called getting ’sensitized’ to attacks of panic.

Often fear and anxiety are confused and taken as interchangeable depiction of the same thing. This is not true because fear is a natural sensation and anxiety is a psychological imbalance. Anxiety can obstruct other behavior which may be advantageous to a person’s personality. Taking cognizance of existence of stress is valuable in taking appropriate and timely corrective actions.

Another aspect of anxiety management is overcoming ‘agoraphobia’ or the fear of an attack of anxiety in public. The patient dreads being made the laughing stock in the presence of other people. This more or less paralyzes the patient, making him even more vulnerable to being stressed out.

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Talk to Your Doctor
If you are experiencing any of the above feelings, and especially if the feelings have persisted more than a couple of weeks following the birth of your baby, you should consult your physician. Your doctor can administer a simple test for postpartum depression to determine if you would benefit from drug therapy or counseling. Anxiety and postpartum depression are potentially serious conditions—much more than just “a case of the blues” that goes away in a couple of days. If left untreated or ignored, postpartum depression and anxiety can deepen and intensify, making your life—and that of your baby and loved ones—needlessly difficult.
Risk Factors
Some women can be more at risk than others for postpartum depression and anxiety. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (www.womenshealth.gov), you may be at greater risk if you have a history of substance abuse, if you are becoming a mother at a very young age, if you have had difficulties with previous pregnancies, if you have a previous history or family history of depression, if you have anxious or negative feelings about your pregnancy, if you are not receiving emotional or other support from friends and family during your pregnancy, or if you have recently experienced other stressful life events. If you believe you have one or more of these risk factors, you should discuss it with your doctor and decide on a course that could prevent or relieve postpartum depression and anxiety. Even if you don’t have any of the above factors, however, you should still remain aware of your feelings. While a mild case of “the baby blues” is not unusual after childbirth, deep or unrelenting sadness, insomnia, fear, or anxiety that persists for more than a week or two is not normal and may indicate the presence of postpartum depression and anxiety.
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If this sounds in any way familiar to you and you are troubled in this way the following tips will help you.

1) Stop pushing it away

When we experience anything in life that is unpleasant it’s natural enough for us to want to push it away, but when it comes to anxiety this is to our detriment. The harder we push any emotion away the harder it pushes back towards us. So the key here is to simply stop pushing your fear away and let it in a for a while. This is a new practise and may take some time to achieve. Just practise with it and see what happens.

2) Get Curious

Anxiety is a portal by which we can get to know ourselves better. It demands our attention for that part ourselves that we have disowned. Have an inner dialogue with your anxiety and ask it how old it is? Where did it begin? And what does it need from you now in order to heal? Just be patient and see what kind of responses come back.

3) Make it worse

This may sound like a mad idea when you are already scared, panicked and worried but experiment with it and see what happens. Anxiety is just another form of energy and if we let it expand and get bigger eventually it will have to contract again. This is just the nature of anything that comes into our awareness. So try and make it stronger then it is already and see what happens. You will find that it has a limit as to how strong it gets.

Following the tips above will help you start to free yourself from anxiety.

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The French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, a 20th Century pioneer in psychoanalysis, believed aggression is generated as a psychological defense against the threat of something known as fragmentation; the mental and emotional sense of losing control over self-cohesion. Now, fragmentation may present in a feeling of low-grade distress, or it may manifest in all-out panic and terror, for fear of total annihilation. Lacan took the whole matter to infancy where a human is simply a mish-mash of biological functions well beyond internal management. And the only goal one could have is to at least make an effort to pull everything together into some semblance of cohesive identity.

But, Lacan believed any achieved cohesion or collected personality is only a matter of appearances; just a front intended to mask one’s innate vulnerability and weakness. That said, when any outside force poses a threat, which to the individual would reveal the sad and terrorizing truth regarding her ever-looming potential to fragment, she calls upon her most natural and available defense; concealment of her innate frailty. And this is implemented by the immediate presentation of the illusion that she has scads of power right at her very fingertips. Well, that supposed power is aggression; so often expressed and received as anger.

Now, according to the psychoanalysts, regression is a defense mechanism generated by the ego, the mediator between our primal drives (the id) and our social conscious (the superego), that forces an individual to give the heave-ho to healthy and mature coping strategies in the face of intense internal distress. In lieu of employing age-appropriate management strategies, the individual unconsciously elects to revert to patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior from a stage of psychosexual development in which he’s become fixated. Now, this fixation could take him back in time to anywhere from birth through adolescence. And the stage chosen for the reversion is generally one during which some sort of major unresolved conflict or trauma occurred. By the way, Sigmund Freud named the psychosexual stages oral, anal, phallic, latency period, and genital.

You know, interestingly enough, it’s possible that an individual may be unconsciously holding on to pain and anger in a misguided attempt to reconnect with the person who inflicted wounds and generated trauma during a developmental stage in which she’s fixated. And this occurs in a hopeless effort to achieve a wrap and a sense of healing. Indeed, even though the regression and fixation traps the individual within the walls of intense distress, they at least bring him close to the scene of the crime, and the perpetrator(s). And being at least close equates to having a shot at resolution. Does any of this connect with you?

Though not as detailed, I want to at least mention the cognitive point of view regarding anger. The cognitivists would submit that anger is an incredibly powerful emotion grounded in a real or perceived event. They’d go on to say that anger’s presence in our lives may be generated by any combination of genetics, life-experience, poor conflict-management skills, and learned behavior. And they’d probably suggest that most people who display anger blame others, and situations, for all of the hubbub; as opposed to taking responsibility for their misguided expectations. Indeed, if the events at hand don’t jibe with their perception and expectation of the way things should be, boom, all hell breaks loose.

Like the psychoanalysts, the cognitivists would remind you that anger is a deeply rooted defense mechanism that protects us from a variety of situations from which rescue is perceived to be necessary; its power and energy aiding in both emotional and physical survival. So that can be a good thing, but the downside is when anger becomes horribly mismanaged and taken beyond the boundaries of its biological and psychological purpose. It then becomes incredibly dangerous.

Well, that’s a wrap for part one. Hopefully, I provided a nice definitive foundation as we look to part two, and our discussion of how anger directly impacts panic and anxiety.

After a winning bout with panic disorder, a career in the business world, and a part-time job working with socially challenged adolescents, Bill found his life’s passion and work. So he earned his master’s degree and counseling credentials, and is doing all he can to lend a hand to those having a tough time.

Bill has some powerful BE CALM mentoring and service packages available for panic attack sufferers on his website, which include his panic attack education and recovery eWorkbook, “Panic! …and Poetic Justice.” The eWorkbook is delivered via an immediate download. You’ll also find a link on the website to Bill’s Panic Attack Freedom! blog. Lots of good stuff going on and much more to come.

In addition to doing psychiatric emergency work, Bill continues to do a lot of writing and speaking. He’s conducted numerous mental health workshops and is available for future engagements. Bill is a national and local member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (N.A.M.I.). He resides in the far western suburbs of Chicago where he enjoys time with his two wonderful teenage children.
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In order to avoid the onset of an attack it is important that you must understand what an anxiety attack is and what are its symptoms. Of course, an average person must have experienced the symptoms at some point in their life but it is unlikely to have reached a certain level to cause panic. In other words it is manageable and within the range of our capacity to overcome the attack.

Do you remember giving a speech for the first time and you feel your heart pounding wildly or a relationship of a loved one at the brink of disaster? The possible loss of a job and a confrontation with your boss can cause you untold tension and misery. They are elements of disaster and if not handled correctly, an anxiety attack may set in.

What happens when a person has an anxiety attack? The attack may take different forms; uncontrollable shaking, vomiting, diarrhea, pissing with your pants, profuse perspiration and difficulty in breathing.
There are recommended ways to control or overcome anxiety attack. But in the end the issue boils down to the person affected. No matter what the doctor says, if you are unwilling to recognize the problem and do something about it then your efforts to treat it will most likely fail.

As always the mind plays a vital role in the prevention of anxiety attack. The subconscious mind will tell you how to manage difficult situations and overcome them. It is willpower that will make you fight difficult situations. Your mind will tell you not to indulge in self-pity and that feeling of hopelessness and helplessness. And once your mind works you will be able to know what to do and control anxiety attacks.

Constant and continuous anxiety attacks will have debilitating effects on a person. But with proper handling like seeing a doctor or listening and learning from other people who have the same problem will give you a good chance to stop anxiety disorder in its tracks.

You can read more about preventing anxiety attacks here.

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SE came to life as Dr. Levine observed that though wild animals of prey are under constant threat and siege, they’re rarely traumatized. Well, I never really gave that much thought, but I suppose it’s true. So, just how in the heck do they pull that off? Well, credit is given to an innate regulating mechanism that very efficiently manages and discharges the energy that accumulates in their bodies as a result of self-preservation behaviors. Levine observed that when an animal of prey survives a potentially deadly chase, it actually takes time to physically shake-off unused energy before moving on with the herd. Well, Levine posits we humans are equipped with essentially the same mechanism; however, ours is greatly inhibited by our more advanced cognitive capabilities. Man, how many times does thinking mess things up for us? By the way, isn’t it interesting that we so often use the phrase, “Just shake it off,” when someone takes a relatively minor hit of some kind.

Now, as we consider the notion that humans have an innate ability to manage and discharge unused survival energy, let’s take a look at a large structure in the midbrain known as the periaqueductal gray (PG). The PG is thought to be involved with physically defensive reactions such as freezing, jumping, running, rapid heartbeat, blood pressure fluctuation, and increases in muscle tone. It’s believed that when sufficiently stimulated, the amygdala, our fear alarm control panel, rings-up the PG and on come one or more of the physical phenomena just mentioned.

Interestingly enough, the PG is also responsible for something known as quiescence, a state of being at ease and immobile, yet highly alert. Many scientists believe this is a natural recovery response after a tussle with a real or perceived threat. Did you ever feel like you were frozen or immobile during a time of intense fear or anxiety? Come on, you know you have. In humans, indeed all mammals and reptiles, freezing usually occurs right before the real or perceived attack. It’s one of three primary responses called upon when we’re faced with a perceived overwhelming threat, the others being fight and flight. Well, this altered state of consciousness is designed to provide a last ditch shot at escape and to spare the body pain through a natural analgesic process should a brutal death occur. And guess what? The PG is responsible for this onboard pain relief, as well.

Now, this inability to “shake-off” causes big problems because it prohibits a complete purging, if you will, of excess survival energy. And this, in turn, impedes the nervous system’s efforts to regain a sense of internal balance or homeostasis. And that, in yet another turn, leads to trauma because the body now has to try to accommodate an excess of unused survival energy. And this “has-been” mass of energy remains bound in our bodies where it rips us up mentally, emotionally, and physically. Again, we humans have the ability to shake-off this toxic mess; however, we generally find a way to think our way out of it.

Well, it sure doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to me that this storehouse of poisonous unused survival energy would have the potential to generate all sorts of panic and anxiety. And that’s what makes this material so relevant. So, keep this information in your back pocket as you read the next article discussing SE from a treatment perspective.

After a winning bout with panic disorder, a career in the business world, and a part-time job working with socially challenged adolescents, Bill found his life’s passion and work. So he earned his master’s degree and counseling credentials, and is doing all he can to lend a hand to those having a tough time.

Bill has some powerful BE CALM mentoring and service packages available for panic attack sufferers on his website, which include his panic attack education and recovery eWorkbook, “Panic! …and Poetic Justice.” The eWorkbook is delivered via an immediate download. You’ll also find a link on the website to Bill’s Panic Attack Freedom! blog. Lots of good stuff going on and much more to come.

In addition to doing psychiatric emergency work, Bill continues to do a lot of writing and speaking. He’s conducted numerous mental health workshops and is available for future engagements. Bill is a national and local member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (N.A.M.I.). He resides in the far western suburbs of Chicago where he enjoys time with his two wonderful teenage children.
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Everywhere you look people are talking about the doom and gloom in the economy, job losses etc. People are wondering how they will pay their mortgage what they will tell their children about the future on top of all the normal stresses and strains we deal with in everyday life.

When we are stressed out and worried constantly we can experience symptoms like irritability, muscle tension, sleeping difficulties etc. We cannot function at out best and cannot see clearly the decisions to make that are beneficial for us.

I have outlined some tips below that can help if you stressed out. They can help bring you back to balance and release some tension.

1)If you are bombarded by bad news from the media about unemployment figures and a failing economy you should remember a couple of things.

Firstly you need to remember that the media thrives on sensationalising things. They are there to sell newspapers and get people to watch their shows. Either stop watching and reading the information or let it wash over you remembering that they have a vested interest in exaggerating things.

Secondly remember that we create our own reality in life. Even when we are bombarded by bad news you can choose to decide that there is brighter future for you. There is always opportunity for you. Decide to look for that opportunity and your mind will find it.

2) Alot of stress is based on resistance and we make it worse by our resistance. Whether we are worried about money, health, job losses etc we need to able to accept the worse case scenario in our minds. This may sound counter productive to alot of positive thinking methods out there but its the resistance of thoughts like losing our jobs, houses, health etc that keeps these things in our minds and stops us taking productive action.

3) Taking out some time for yourself can be very helpful. When we are still in meditation or relaxation we can experience and release what has been held in our sub-conscious mind. It start to clear the clutter and leave us feeling refreshed and at peace.

If you follow the steps outlined above you should start to see an improvement if you are stressed and find things slowing down for down for you.

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As you may know, in addition to our sense of hearing the inner ear is the headquarters of balance and equilibrium. Within the membranous labyrinth, a fluid-filled structure deep within the inner ear, is a relatively large area known as the vestibule. And it’s the “vestibular system” that monitors and manages balance and equilibrium by receiving and integrating input from the eyes, ears, and muscles of the trunk, neck, and limbs. Of course, the vestibular system gets a little help from its friends, one of which is the brain’s cerebellum. I guess it would make sense that the cerebellum is a major player in the integration of sensory perception, as well as motor control.

Now then, disorders of the vestibular system can cause all sorts of mental, emotional, and physical problems, including panic and anxiety. The panic and anxiety generated by vestibular system dysfunction is most often triggered by the misinterpretation of, and overreaction to, the troubling symptoms it produces. I mean, we’re talking dizziness, loss of balance, headache, attention and focus issues, tinnitus, trouble focusing and tracking with the eyes, distorted hearing, confusion, and loss of memory. Think those would make you anxious and panicky? I’m thinking so.

Just recently I assessed a young man who was having a very tough time with panic and anxiety. As he told me about his wealth of physical symptoms he included feeling very unsteady on his feet and sensing something was wrong with his balance. Heck, forget about being a clinician, as a recovered panic sufferer I immediately knew what he was describing and why it was upsetting him. Listen, in spite of its lack of marquee status, this is an incredibly common issue for millions of panic and anxiety sufferers.

Again, the outstanding news is the balance/panic/anxiety phenomenon is now being assessed and treated in children. The treatment formula is a very simple balance-focused physical regimen using a variety of equipment in assisting the child in managing his/her environmental experience and movement within space. And, of course, the more progress made by the child, the greater the decline in the potential for panic and anxiety issues.

So it looks as though this is a “win, win, win” situation here. A traditionally ignored contributor to panic and anxiety is getting some major attention. A contributor to panic and anxiety is being addressed in childhood. The potential for lifelong pain and suffering is being greatly reduced.

What’s not to like?
Bill Chandler

After a life-long bout with panic disorder – and recovery – and a career in the business world, Bill found his life\’s passion, his life\’s work. So he earned his master\’s degree and counseling credentials, and he’s now doing all he can to lend a hand to those having a tough time. Bill authored a panic disorder education and recovery eworkbook entitled, \”Panic! …and Poetic Justice,\” which is available on his website and online store for immediate download. Also available is information regarding a collection of poems he wrote along his panic disorder and recovery journey entitled, \”The Poetry of My Life.\” Lots of good stuff to see, and more to come. In addition to doing psychiatric emergency work, Bill continues to do a lot of writing. He’s conducted numerous mental health workshops for non-profit organizations and remains available to offer more. Bill is a national and local member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (N.A.M.I.).

I was nine-years-old when an episode of derealization struck me like a lightening bolt while I was sitting at a kitchen table with my parents and their friends. I panicked and ran from the scene. During that same timeframe it was often written on my report cards that I was seemingly unable to sit still and would occasionally wander around the classroom. As a junior in college intrusive thoughts entered my airspace. I was walking down the sidewalk in downtown East Lansing, MI. and saw a woman coming toward me pushing a stroller. Out of nowhere I wondered what would happen if I punched her baby right in the face. Wow!

Well, let’s take a shot at labeling these events in an effort to gain some insight. The first event was a panic attack, the second involved inattention and hyperactivity, and the third event was an obsession with a yet to be understood bit of compulsive behavior tossed in. And I can tell you, for sure, these three amigos frequently travel together.

Let’s see if we can find some anatomical and physiological common ground here. Research tells us that the generation of panic attacks is based in the amygdala and other components of the limbic system, which are all located deep within the temporal lobes of the brain. The amygdala has been considered a component of the basal ganglia for decades; however, since it’s not involved in movement the association is fading. Finally, the amygdala works closely with the brain’s thalamus and prefrontal cortices in receiving, analyzing, and responding to incoming internal and external stimuli. The neurotransmitters involved in panic are serotonin, norepinephrine, and epinephrine.

ADHD sufferers have been found to have reduced brain mass in areas of the dorsal prefrontal cortex, located within the prefrontal lobe of both brain cortices. Also noted are reductions in size of the anterior temporal areas of both cortices. The anatomy lesson continues, as increases in grey matter volume in areas of the posterior temporal and inferior parietal cortices have also been detected. Finally, areas of the cerebrum’s anterior cingulate cortex and basal ganglia, as well as portions of the cerebellum, have shown variations in size. Neurotransmitters involved with ADHD are thought to be dopamine and norepinephrine.

When it comes to the brain anatomy involved in obsessions and compulsions, the orbital-prefrontal cortex, caudate nucleus (located within the basal ganglia, by the way), and the thalamus are most often mentioned. The neurotransmitters in the obsession/compulsion mix are believed to be serotonin and dopamine.
Well, as it applies to panic, inattention, hyperactivity, obsessions, and compulsions, there appears to be plenty of common ground in terms of brain anatomy and neurotransmitters. Indeed, there are numerous dots that can be connected. Go ahead, go back and take a look at the article and make your own comparisons. I’m thinking you’ll see the similarities. And I believe these similarities account for my constellation of symptoms and disorders over the years, as well as those of one of our clients.

Not long after we began working with Taylor, our focus turned to his self-obsession and inability to quiet his mind. Yes, Taylor’s mind was very much working against him in a very spirited manner. I shared my history of inattention and obsessive/compulsive issues with him, and guess what? Taylor revealed he’d had some major problems with inattention throughout his elementary and secondary education experience. Isn’t it amazing how, with the right cues, seemingly meaningless information to a mind variance sufferer suddenly comes to the fore and becomes a factor in identification and treatment?

Well, to me, our assorted bits of pathology aren’t pieces from different puzzles that happened to have been thrown on the card table. No, they’re pieces from a massive and complicated puzzle that simply take a longer amount of time to piece together. It’s just all the more evidence that mind variances co-occur and interact. And though, in terms of treatment, we traditionally lean toward the myopic, focusing upon the issue that’s causing the most grief in-the-moment; all pieces of the grand puzzle must be considered. Only then can we maximize insight, identity, education, treatment, and hope.

Over the coming days, take the time to ponder your full constellation of symptoms and potential disorders. I’m telling you it’s a worthwhile exercise and your suppositions and conclusions merit discussion with your “help-team.” Again, the nuances of our mind variances, and their interaction, are amazingly fascinating. Well beyond that, understanding the dynamics will lead to extraordinary peace and calm.
Bill Chandler

After a life-long bout with panic disorder – and recovery – and a career in the business world, Bill found his life\’s passion, his life\’s work. So he earned his master\’s degree and counseling credentials, and he’s now doing all he can to lend a hand to those having a tough time. Bill authored a panic disorder education and recovery eworkbook entitled, \”Panic! …and Poetic Justice,\” which is available on his website and online store for immediate download. Also available is information regarding a collection of poems he wrote along his panic disorder and recovery journey entitled, \”The Poetry of My Life.\” Lots of good stuff to see, and more to come. In addition to doing psychiatric emergency work, Bill continues to do a lot of writing. He’s conducted numerous mental health workshops for non-profit organizations and remains available to offer more. Bill is a national and local member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (N.A.M.I.).