how can I reduce anxiety. is anxiety neurosis curable?. how can I avoid panic attacks?
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There is a way to manage them. When you feel one coming on focus on deep breathing and self relaxing. Breath in your nose and slowly exhale from your mouth. Make every muscle in your body feel relaxed. When it starts tell yourself that you have the power to stop this and believe it.
Better yet, find the core reason for the attack. And then work on that life issue. You might need to change your self talk. For instance you might have the bad habit of saying "I am freeking and going to have an attack" Stop that inner dialog and tell your self." I have the power to stop this, I can breath, I will not let this feeling take over my life, It will stop because I can feel peace."
Ask your self what brings on the attacks and then make changes in your life. Before you go to sleep at night say to yourself..I will no longer give power to those attacks. I will choose a life of peace, joy and happiness. I will no longer let fear control my life"
Then sleep
Other Answers:
There are meds for that, but also you need to get to the root of the problem. Counsiling helps a lot. They can teach you what to do when you have one(panic attack.) How to cope with them when you have one, and in time you will learn why you have them. Try some therapy. It is a lot of emotional work, but it is worth it, and so are you.
Best Wishes,
-barbara
My cousin actually had a panic attack ay school, and we didn't know what was going on with her. She takes some sort of nerve pills daily perscribed by her doctor. She explained to me that when she feels one coming on she gets really cold, and a these weird feelings. This is when she slows down on whatever she's doing, and takes deep breaths. Since she follows this step, she has never had an panic attack again! ask your doctor about effexor *spelling* my husband takes it and it works miracles!
I've heard that there are anxiety pills that you can take.a way that can help with anxiety is meditation.hope that helped you
i get anxiety attacks sometimes. i get really hot, and feel kind of dizzy and sick to my stomach. and sometimes (but rarely) feel like im going to pass out. is that similar to you?
what i do when that happens is get some fresh air.. or sit down for a couple minutes. and also leave the situation that i have my anxiety in.
the neurosis is treatable. make an appointment with your doctor about that. he or she will be able to get you on pills that will reduce, or maybe even eliminate your problem.
hope this helps :)
Try St. Johns Wort.I take 500 mg three times per day every day and it smooths everything out just a bit.and it is safe and inexpensive, much better than prescription meds if it helps. If you need something much stronger talk to your doc.Effexor works pretty well.so do Paxil and Zoloft. If you have panic disorder, this means you experience periodic panic attacks. Panic attacks are intense episodes of fear which are so powerful that they lead the person to fear that he/she is dying, going crazy, about to faint, or losing control of themselves in some vital way.
Panic attacks may be "uncued", or unexpected (i.e. they seem to "come out of the blue", occurring for no apparent reason). They can also occur in response to various cues such as entering a crowded area; a traffic jam; being the center of attention, etc.
Panic attacks can be part of a variety of anxiety disorders, and the fact that you have panic attacks does not necessarily mean you have panic disorder. For instance, if all your panic attacks are about social situations, you may have Social Phobia rather than Panic Disorder. Or you may be having panic attacks in response to some other problem. An evaluation by a qualified therapist can help you to make the distinction, and arrive at an accurate diagnosis.
The Symptoms
A panic attack can consist of many different symptoms, but among the most common are:
racing heart (also skipped heartbeats and "loud heart")
chest pain, tightness, and heaviness
dizziness and lightheadedness
numbness and tingling in the hands and feet
labored breathing, feeling short of breath, and hyperventilation
stomach and intestinal distress
racing thoughts and confusion
fear of some catastrophic breakdown, i.e., death or insanity
a strong impulse to flee
Panic attacks are not dangerous. However, if you are having them, especially if they're a relatively new occurrence for you, I know that you will be unable to believe this now. That's entirely understandable when you feel that your life is threatened! Just make a mental note to check this out further as you look at the resources we suggest in our Resource Directory and at the articles about Panic Disorder, especially the article entitled "What Can a Panic Attack Do to You?"
The Link with Phobias
If you have panic disorder, the chances are very high that you have altered your life in some significant way in an effort to prevent or avoid additional panic attacks. It is common, for instance, for people to limit their travel; to restrict their driving (maybe staying within a certain radius from home, or avoiding highways); to avoid large, crowded shopping malls; and in general, to attempt to avoid any activity from which "escape" may be difficult.
Or maybe you don't avoid anything, but you do things differently than before. You might bring your spouse or support person to go to places you would previously visit alone. Maybe you do everything the same way you used to, but you go through a lot of nervous anticipation ahead of time.
Panic Disorder is usually diagnosed as being "Panic Disorder with "Agoraphobia" or "Panic Disorder without "Agoraphobia".
Agoraphobia
Simply put - agoraphobia means that you avoid a lot of ordinary activities and situations for fear of having panic attacks. To most people who get this diagnosis, the term sounds pretty scary, but that's all it means. It does not mean you are or will become house bound. That can happen to people, and is an extremely severe case of agoraphobia, but the great majority of people with agoraphobia do not experience it to that extent.
Specific Phobia
This means that you tend to panic under very specific circumstances, and avoid those circumstances, even if you realize that your fear is excessive and unreasonable. Common examples include: certain animals (i.e., bees, dogs); heights; water; storms; flying in an airplane; snall, enclosed places; bridges and tunnels; injections and the sight of blood; vomiting.
Certain of these phobias are more common than others, and I will offer self help tips for the more common ones, i.e., fear of flying and claustrophobia. However, in certain cases, almost any item can become the object of a specific phobia. For instance, I have worked with clients who feared lobsters, and toy soldiers.
Social Phobia
This means that you tend to panic in social and performance situations because you fear a public humiliation, rejection, and/or disgrace. A person with social phobia might fear such activities as:
public speaking
meetings
playing sports or musical instruments for an audience
standing up in a wedding
eating in a restaurant
using a public bathrooms
writing in front of another person, for instance, while cashing a check or checking into a hotel.
Social Phobia can also include more generalized fears about dating, parties, and other social activities. As is the case with specific phobia, people with this problem generally view their fear and avoidance as excessive and unreasonable, but that knowledge by itself does not enable them to overcome it.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
If you have OCD, you may experience persistent, disturbing thoughts and images which you are unable to turn off, and also may find yourself feeling compelled to engage in repetitive rituals.
Almost everyone has experienced an occasional uncertainty about whether or not they locked the front door as they left their home; most people have probably gone back to check a few times in their lives.
A person with OCD might have this worry every day; might have to return to the front door repeatedly to check; might have to check the lock repeatedly, or a fixed number of times, before feeling able to leave and go to work; and in a severe case, might begin arriving late to work because the ritual becomes so time consuming, or even start staying home more in an effort to avoid this problem. Obsessions are recurrent, persistent thoughts and images that people find extremely disturbing and contrary to their nature.
Common obsessions include thoughts of the following:
killing loved ones
acting disgracefully in church or class
running over a pedestrian or causing an auto accident
accidentally poisoning or contaminating the family meal
causing a tragic fire by forgetting to turn off the stove
causing a flood by failing to turn off the faucet
The obsessive thoughts generally cause severe anxiety.
Compulsions are repetitive, ritualistic behaviors which people perform in an effort to soothe that anxiety. For instance, people obsessed with the idea that they have somehow run over a pedestrian without noticing might drive repeatedly around the block, seeking to reasure themselves that it didn't happen. A person obsessed with fears of contamination might repeatedly wash his/her hands. A person obsessed with the stove might check it repeatedly, over a period of hours, in an effort to feel sure that the stove has been turned off.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
If you have GAD, you experience lots of worry and unpleasant anticipation about lots of things in your life - money, family, health, and work; you expect the worst on a regular basis; and are often worried even without knowing exactly what you're worried about. You have a variety of physical symptoms, including headaches, muscular tension, stomach and intestinal upset, and labored breathing; and you probably have trouble concentrating when you want to, and trouble relaxing when you want to.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
If you have PTSD, this generally means that:
you were a witness to, or involved in, an event that involved actual or threatened death or severe injury, either to you or to others (for instance, a car crash or a murder)
you felt fear, helplessness, and horror at the event
you repeatedly re-experience some aspects of the event long after it is over ( for instance, you dream about it, or remember it vividly while awake), or feel like it is actually happening even while you are engaged in ordinary activities.
As a result, you would:
experience emotional upset and physical symptoms whenever you are reminded of the event.
try to avoid anything that reminds you of the event.
experience a variety of other symptoms such as disturbed sleep, irritabilty and problems with anger, poor concentration, always " feeling on edge", and tend to be easily startled.
If you have PTSD, it would cause significant problems in ordinary aspects of living such as work, family, and social life.
What if I don't fit any of these categories?
Please remember that the diagnostic categories described above are very imperfect. They come from a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). This book is an attempt to describe and label all the psychiatric disorders which a group of leading experts could agree upon. It is, therefore, the product of a committee, with all the short comings and compromises that implies. It gets revised every few years.
Do not be concerned if your experience of anxiety does not fit neatly into one of these descriptions. This is a common occurence. The committee recognized that this would happen, and so included a category of "Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified", among others, so as to include those whose symptoms do not fit neatly into the diagnoses as presently written.
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