July 15th, 2010
For those of us who suffer with anxiety attacks, we distinguish what it feels like. Our heart pounds. We get butterflies in our stomach. We agonize and fret over everything and anything. We have hot and cold sweats. Our throats go dry and we have difficulty swallowing, just to name a few.
If you are experiencing any of the above, then you may well be suffering with anxiety attacks.
Anxiety attacks can occur out of the blue. I have spoken with loads of people who have said “my life is great; I don’t understand why I am suddenly suffering with anxiety attacks”. That’s the nature of the beast. There is no selected format for anxiety attacks. They can occur to people whose lives are going really well, as well, as those who lives are not going so well.
This is why anxiety attacks are so difficult to diagnose. It’s not like having a cold or some other illness, where there symptoms are typical and simple to make out and diagnose.
Understanding what anxiety attacks are will help you to have more control. It’s usual to worry and feel tense or anxious when under pressure or facing a demanding situation. Anxiety is the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when we feel threatened.
From my personal knowledge off living with anxiety attacks, I am alert of the fact that the more you think about the anxiety the deeper ingrained the symptoms become. The more powerful the symptoms, the more powerful the anxiety attacks become. Then you’re in the realms of a viscous circle. This is when it becomes really hard to over come your anxiety attacks.
It’s not till you really become aware of the fact that your thoughts have shaped your anxiety, so it stands to reason that if you have manifested the anxiety attack then surely you can UN-create the anxiety attacks. This part is really hard for people to understand. And I know exactly how they feel! When I was told this, I rejected it. Why would I want to do this to myself? It did not make sense.
But at the end of the day no matter how much I tried to pay no heed to that fact, it was correct, my thoughts where the origin of my anxiety. I experimented with it. The more I focused my energy on the anxiety the stronger my anxiety attack became. So with the help of a therapist, I was able to work on my thoughts and defeat my anxiety.
I am not anxiety free, but I am able to stop my anxiety before it becomes a full blown anxiety attack.
An added thing to bear in mind, is that anxiety may be unpleasant, but it isn’t always a unpleasant thing. In fact, anxiety can help us stay attentive and focused, spur us to action, and motivate us to solve problems. But when anxiety is relentless or overwhelming, when it interferes with our relationships and activities-that’s when you’ve crossed the line from normal anxiety into the territory of anxiety disorders.
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Rachael Curran
Biofeedback has reemerged as a legitimate treatment option for those suffering with anxiety and chronic pain. In the 1960s, the term represented laboratory procedures used to train a person to control his or her bodily functions, with the ultimate goal of being able to control brain waves. This in turn would make a person more creative, pleasant, etc. Today, biofeedback is more realistically used to help people with several disorders including anxiety, incontinence and ADHD.
My story idea is a feature on biofeedback’s growing popularity among University of Florida students as a means to control stress and anxiety. The therapy involves measuring a patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature and other bodily processes and relaying this information give a patient more consciousness about his or her own physiology. The reporter should talk to Dr. Dinah Welch, who practices biofeedback therapy at the University of Florida Student Health Care Center. She should be asked to detail the biofeedback process and what it entails for the patient.
About how many students currently receive biofeedback therapy at the center? How effective is biofeedback in managing anxiety? Does it work better for some than others? Is a referral from another doctor necessary in order to receive this kind of treatment? Can biofeedback replace more traditional drug therapies? How much does it cost?
The reporter should also talk to students suffering from stress or anxiety, which shouldn’t be hard given the start of a new semester. Ask them if they have ever considered a nontraditional therapy like biofeedback. More importantly, the reporter should talk to someone who has experienced biofeedback. Will the student continue his or her treatment? Was it worthwhile?
While biofeedback is offered to cancer patients at the Shands Cancer Center for the treatment of pain, any information about this should appear in a later graph as the article’s focus will be on students and anxiety management. This is also true for other disorders including ADHD and incontinence.
The story should be about 15 inches and can include a mug of Welch as well as a sidebar about the bodily processes commonly measured and what each means.
Glad things are on the upswing. I've been thinking of you. I haven't suffered from depression but I had a pretty bad serotonin crash after Bea weaned herself a few months ago and I had major anxiety and panic attacks. WOW. NOT FUN. Exercise, yoga and nutrition + some supplements have been the key for me too with a little therapy thrown in for good measure. Take care of yourself!
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Selma – On the money you may be. I have been thinking about the times I felt healthy and what has changed from those times – trying to identify my anxiety triggers. Let's see what the next step is.
Nat – Self help books are good for one thing only – filling space on a shelf. Am now doing the waiting game for another specialist appointment.
Penelope – you are a love. Have appointment with GP first week of August the day after PCOS treatment plan appointment. Is a while to wait but this is what I get for having the best GP in the area!
Dan – The rational part of my brain knows you are right and is nodding sagely at your advice. There is quite a large part which is having a grumble whinge at the NHS. I honestly don't know what I was expecting. I think I've been watching too much hospital drama TV.
My next specialist appointment is with the gynae dept in August for PCOS. I have to wait for a referral letter to go to my GP from A&E and then she can make an appointment with the specialists at the hospital. As soon as that it through I shall be skipping with excitement at the next step forward. Thanks for the advice re the anxiety management therapy though – I will mention that at my next appointment.
blondefabulous – oh I have had worse… not as bad as the NY Psych thing though – jeez! Had a quick googling of Celiac Disease and can I just say – ooo, you poor thing!
Avitable – Knew I could rely on you for the quick fix answer – is starting to eat into my work day though!
Carly – I have tried meditation in the past and it worked wonders. Am going to make sure I find the time and space to take it up again. Am looking into Yoga classes in the area; hypnotherapy, however, scares the living bejeezus out of me! But thanks for the advice and for the longest post title I have seen in quite some time – Cordelia in Angel, right?
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Hey there,
Coty Candide coming from Paris, France.
I am a software programmer and I am the admin of a mental health related, specifically anxiety and panic attacks, review blog at cotycandide.com
Only a quick post right now to say that I'm happy to have my own little space on this website/forum.
Hope to chat to many of you soon.
Kind Regards,
Coty Candide
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Leah says (and for once I don't disagree with her — just joking Leah!), “The solution is to treat the anxiety. It can be done.”
Of course it can be done, but will it? I don't think so, not while there are so many millions of dollars in play in creating anxiety about every facet of prostate cancer, from PSA testing/screening to the inappropriate tests and scans ordered, to the lack of clear indications of outcomes, to unneccesary adjuvant treatments (or should I say adjuvant treatments that have no demonstrable value … the list goes on. This anxiety drives men like beaters at a pheasant shoot, right into early treatment.
In the midst of all this gloomy outlook there is the faintest glimmer of light. I have personally experienced the change in attitude to what was called, so inappropriately, watchful waiting and which is now commonly referred to as active surveillance.
Thirteen years ago it was clear that the general view was that only fools and lunatics would consider such a step. The lunacy element has been removed now and men who follow this path, and the doctors who support that decisio,n are merely regarded as foolish. Perhaps as more time goes by and more studies are published, even that appellation might be removed.
i am on a low dose antidepressant (molipaxin, aka trazodone hydrochloride) and have been since mid-May. it's used to treat anxiety and depression and it's doing a good job in treating both. i'm not fine, but i'm on a more even keel and can cope better with day to day life.
i get bad in the run up to my period so i've agreed with my doctor that i double the dose at that time – or at any other time i'm doing badly. apparently that's getting more common. if you were to go onto one that was fast-acting you might be able to either just take round ovulation or to take a low dose the rest of the month and then double it around then? and for full disclosure i am ttc and my GP has ok'd this for that.
BCP have never really touched hormonal whackiness for me, but other people may be different.
happy anniversary, and enjoy your days off.
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Does this whole vaginismus thing have to do with generalized anxiety and panic attacks? I was treated by Ditza and Ross a couple of years ago and it worked wonders, but since then (and before) I suffer from panic attacks. I want to cure my panic attacks natuarlly just like the vaginismus. (I'm still somewhat afraid at times…like after I had a baby and didn't have intercourse for a while…)Any good ideas?
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I agree with a lot of what your saying sometimes we just have to put up with anxiety attacks/depression, sometimes my pulse goes up but i can control it that thought that you can't cope with it i feel is what keeps it going. As for poping pills im also trying hypnosis not sure if it worth it but its worth a go. thanks for the video hope your keeping well.
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I went through a period where during classes i would have anxiety attacks, sometimes going as far as bursting into tears, and would have to leave. Nobody ever asked if i needed help, either, and it resulted in a lot of painful “coming out” conversations with professors where I had to explain what was wrong with me and then they tried to give me life advice. Pretty much what I'm trying to say is, it sucks. Hugs if you want 'em!
Rachael Curran
Biofeedback has reemerged as a legitimate treatment option for those suffering with anxiety and chronic pain. In the 1960s, the term represented laboratory procedures used to train a person to control his or her bodily functions, with the ultimate goal of being able to control brain waves. This in turn would make a person more creative, pleasant, etc. Today, biofeedback is more realistically used to help people with several disorders including anxiety, incontinence and ADHD.
My story idea is a feature on biofeedback’s growing popularity among University of Florida students as a means to control stress and anxiety. The therapy involves measuring a patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature and other bodily processes and relaying this information give a patient more consciousness about his or her own physiology. The reporter should talk to Dr. Dinah Welch, who practices biofeedback therapy at the University of Florida Student Health Care Center. She should be asked to detail the biofeedback process and what it entails for the patient.
About how many students currently receive biofeedback therapy at the center? How effective is biofeedback in managing anxiety? Does it work better for some than others? Is a referral from another doctor necessary in order to receive this kind of treatment? Can biofeedback replace more traditional drug therapies? How much does it cost?
The reporter should also talk to students suffering from stress or anxiety, which shouldn’t be hard given the start of a new semester. Ask them if they have ever considered a nontraditional therapy like biofeedback. More importantly, the reporter should talk to someone who has experienced biofeedback. Will the student continue his or her treatment? Was it worthwhile?
While biofeedback is offered to cancer patients at the Shands Cancer Center for the treatment of pain, any information about this should appear in a later graph as the article’s focus will be on students and anxiety management. This is also true for other disorders including ADHD and incontinence.
The story should be about 15 inches and can include a mug of Welch as well as a sidebar about the bodily processes commonly measured and what each means.
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Very Good!!! Liked it very much. So relaxed now
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This guy is a dumb ass. Hormones have very little to do with anxiety and panic attacks. How about men? How about someone who saw someone else die right before their very own eyes and started to freak out and started to think very negatively? How about someone who has a fast heartbeat and goes to the ER to get checked out. Does the ER doctor say, ” Oh it's just your hormones being off balance. You can go home now that we figured that out.” This guy should retire and not be such a retard.
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As you knopw, I deal with anxiety attacks. When they first started I would pray and pray and it was like God wasn't listening to me. But then I realized that I didn't really believe He could help because I usually turned to Him as a last resort. Then I changed my attitude and believed that He would help me through these attacks. And now I they are few and far between. And when I do feel one coming on I start focusing on God and how He is my strength. Okay, not sure I'm making much sense but I guess what I'm saying is keep on trying cause you will get there. ((hugs))
hey man…been looking around at some random social anxiety videos on youtube and came across yours. I also suffer from social anxiety and get some attacks sometimes too. I go through phases where I am more confident, and then phases like today when I get anxiety attacks and feel very overwhelmed around people etc. Your idea of the video blogging seems like good therapy. Keep it up man!
<a class="watch-comment-atlink" TRK there really isn't a nice way to say this so I'll just be blunt. You are too stupid to run for office so you're either delusional, full of crap or both. For starters the NY Senate in your name implies a run for office in NY, prop 19 is on the CA ballot. Unless NY is secretly plotting a coup in CA you have ZERO chance of affecting CA law. In addition bad parents will be bad, murderers will murder, rapists will rape no matter what laws you pass.
If you are searching to reduce your anxiety, there are many ways to do so, you can try all these new age methods of mediation, and solitude mediation, so on and so forth, but if you want my opinion the best way to deal with anxiety is some simple day to day routine along with steady medication some use Xanax to help treat anxiety, but you should find the right medication that works for you, also this is one of those times where it?s imperative to consulate your doctor !
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