August 23rd, 2010
Effective Methods Used in Treating Anxiety Disorders
None of us are strangers to stress and anxiety. You can sometimes feel overwhelmed with worry and fear and experience an anxiety attack when things such as an important deadline or a failing grade in school happen. When they do, your body reacts physically by increasing your heart rate, dilating your pupils, hyper-activating your glands to sweat more and putting your brain on overdrive. These physical symptoms go away after you have resolved the problem or your source of stress has gone away.
Sometimes, though, even if the problem has passed or there is no reason to worry or stress, you still might get a severe panic attack. When this happens and stress and anxiety start to rule your life and affecting the people around you, your anxiety and stress might be developing into a serious disorder.
There are many people all over the world who have suffered from anxiety disorders but have been helped by effective methods used in treating anxiety disorders. Most doctors and specialists look at the causes of the anxiety disorder first before takings steps in treating the patient. When the cause has been identified, several treatments may be given to help you cope with your anxiety attacks in a healthier way.
1. Medication. There are times when your anxiety attack or emotional distress over simple things is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. Your brain has thousands of neurotransmitters, which are responsible for sending signals from your brain to the rest of your body. Some of these neurotransmitters, like serotonin, are in charge of emotions such as pain, joy, anger and pleasure. When the levels of these neurotransmitters are not balanced, you may experience severe panic attacks or you may develop anxiety disorders. Medicine such as Tricyclic Antidepressants, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Benzodiazepines regulate the neurotransmitters in your brain to decrease the severity and lessen the frequency of your anxiety attacks.
2. Therapy. Most of the time, therapy is given in combination with medication as an effective dual method in treating anxiety disorders. The type of therapy most often used is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, where doctors teach you how to look at life and its many challenges with a more positive outlook. This type of therapy aims to change your way of thinking and how you cope with stress and anxiety. Some doctors even teach you meditation and breathing techniques to help you relax more easily.
3. Diet. Although medication and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are great tools in treating anxiety disorders, eating healthily can also help you cope with your anxiety attacks and lessen your stress. There are certain foods that are stimulants, such as coffee, soda and chocolate and these should be avoided if possible. Stimulants, like caffeine, can make anxiety symptoms increase. Sugar should also be avoided since this can stress the body (that is why we refer to the giddy feeling after eating sugar as a “sugar high”) and then make it crash back down. It’s advised to avoid carbohydrates and complex sugars and trade these for whole grain food and unrefined sugar.
4. Exercise. Jogging, yoga and even brisk walking can increase your body’s flow of oxygen and cause your brain to release endorphins–hormones that can make you feel satisfied and pleased. When you exercise, you can also be distracted from whatever is causing your worries or anxiety.
If you regularly experience anxiety attacks and let worry and fear affect your life, take a step back and consider if your excess stress is developing into a serious anxiety disorder. Don’t let this get in the way of your life-there are many different methods used in treating anxiety disorders. With medication, therapy, proper diet and exercise, you can stop worrying about worrying too much!
Rebecca Hughes has suffered from Panic Attacks and Anxiety Disorders most of her adult life. Rebecca has become an expert in the field and has discovered how to successfully overcome the condition without the need for any drugs or medication. Rebecca is fully aware of the impact Anxiety Disorders can have on your life and is committed to helping her fellow sufferers. You can learn more about Treating Anxiety Disorders and Rebecca’s success story in her 9 part mini-series available at http://www.panicattackcentre.com along with a wealth of additional information on the subject.
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I read your later post, but only after already making my comment to the earlier one.Agree that any inner state that is perceived as troubling or threatening is a problem to the person experiencing it, regardless of whether a some belief systems consider it virtuous. I'm reminded of Joseph Campbell's comments on the difference between mysticism and mental illness. Whether you 'swim' or 'drown' in the 'inner ocean' basically depends on whether you fear it and how much control you feel you have over your immersion.My intent in drawing attention to the commercial website was to point out the circular logic in their diagnostic criteria (i.e. D&D is always a symptom of an anxiety disorder even when its the only sign of an anxiety disorder). Wonder if the fact that they make their money treating anxiety disorders has influenced their view of D&D.My understanding of the jhanas comes from the Therevadan Buddhist tradition. The first jhana is generally described as a blissful state free of anger, desire, anxiety, directed thought or the internal monologue of subvocalised thought. That fits pretty well with a state I can usually reach during vipassana practice and it feels subjectively identical to a coping mechanism I can sometimes use in public during stressful situations (assuming I get the chance to focus on my breathing for a while and don't have to keep responding to external events).
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Let us never forget that these mental “disorders” did not come from chemical imbalances in the brain. Their source is tne insanity of war itself, and the current psychotic administration of our nation.
By spreading lies and use of coersion, goverments can get our youth to kill and create havoc in the world. Their stress is understandable. Killing other human beings is not a natural impulse. Having your buddy's face explode all over you does not promote well-being. But then calling it a “mental disorder” is simply a whitewash.
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What causes chemical imbalances in the brain?
This is good news! Thanks Tonya Kay for being open about this.!!
what a beautiful inspiration! how tremendous, thanks for bringing this info out to the public
<a class="watch-comment-atlink" That's a really interesting concept! Although I wouldn't use the "crazy" label, I do agree that many people with mental "disturbances" are very aware of the differences between their mentality and that of a "normal" person, and then try to compensate, sometimes overcompensating.
When I was in 10th grade, two students killed themselves.
The first one i had a deepconnection with-a sweet young man of 15 who wrote poems and actually read a few to me. I was really wanting to ask him out, and never got the chance, as I was shy and put it off quite literally a day too late.
Anyone care to guess how hopeless and dark life seemed for a kid who had severe drug addictions? Often people endup addicted trying to self medicate and make themselves feel how everyone else looks in their eyes.
I can tell you from self experience that committing suicide is neither selfish nor does it have anything to do with other people and how it will make them feel. I have felt life would be easier for everyone if I were not in it, I felt I would be doing someone a FAVOR.
Don't judge. You have no idea what sort of things someone may have been through. I have tried to commit suicide and reached out to a few people to stop myself. Its incredibly hard to make yourself GET help, ad you often feel alone, Isolated and are filled with a self hatred you have no idea about. These people are NOT themselves and very often CANNOT HELP IT due to chemical imbalances in the brain. It is a symptom of a disease called depression (among other diseases). To simply call these poor individuals selfish is down playing a very serious problem in our society today.
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I just finished a research paper on the pros and cons of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ie. Prozac). If not completely BAAAAAAAAAAD news, as least very misrepresented regarding benefits vs. risks. Was a surprised to learn that Bush Sr. is is on the board for Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac? No, I was not. While he was in power rules changed re: how drugs get approval and started allowing for those direct-to-consumer “ask your doctor” TV ads. Coincidence? Naw. If I get the postpartum crazies again I'll be going for cognitive therapy.
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can manage these mental illnesses etc. as most of them are to do with chemical imbalances in the brain and w/e.. i dunno, its up
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I kind of agree with Matt, to a degree you do control what body type you are by what you eat and how much you eat. I used to be pretty skinny and I wasn't gaining a lot of weight so I started weightlifting and paying more attention to what I ate, at what times of the day, and how much protein/carbs/calories/etc i was taking in; and long behold i gained the weight i was looking to gain. and Jessica, no offense but under eating and overeating are two completely different things, both can be equally as hard to deal with but bottom line, anorexia and bulimia are due to chemical imbalances in the brain and obesity is not. The kids mother shouldn't go to jail and people that are overweight should see a shrink or psychologist and/or find alternative means for dealing with their feelings other than eating because in their cases the easy way isn't the right way. Everything worthwhile is hard…
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you're a person I like genuinely. chemical imbalances in the brain suck though, I hope it's treating you a little better atm xx
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Of course every child and every mother is different, but as a rule children need to learn how to self-soothe. As a psychologist treating anxiety disorders, I *do* see teenagers who cannot go to sleep on their own (they may not go into their parents' room but they need TV or something else to go to sleep, avoid going to sleep and stay online until all hours, etc). can't go to sleepovers, and so on. Ironically often the most “needy” kids who get “babied” the most are the ones who are predisposed to anxiety and need to develop confidence (in sleep and everything else). It is not neglect if it is done in a planful, caring way. I'd recommend that she consult with a sleep and anxiety/stress expert, and for those who cannot afford to meet with an expert there are many excellent research-based resources out there such as Sleeping Through The Night by Jodi Mindell. Without medical issues, babies are physically ready to sleep through the night between 2-6 months and the rest of the challenges are habits that can be modified.
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Tom Cruise is right. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain. And psychiatric drugs are very harmful. The proof is easy to come by.
The fact that he’s getting slammed by the press and talk show hosts also proves something. It proves that the multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign put forth by the drug companies and the APA (American Psychiatric Association) has been successful.
I’m sure you’ve seen the cute little Zoloft cartoons. A sad circle takes Zoloft and turns into a happy circle. How wonderfully simple it all is. But let’s take a look at what the commercial is actually saying: “No one knows what causes depression. One theory is that there’s a chemical imbalance in your brain. Zoloft works to correct this imbalance.”
All right, let’s examine these statements. “No one knows what causes depression.” I can live with that. Line two: “One theory is that there’s a chemical imbalance in the brain.” No problem. It’s a theory. Line three: “Zoloft works to correct this imbalance.” What! In three lines we went from, “No one knows…,” to “One theory is…,” to Zoloft cures it! Cures what? A theory?
And the average person watching this overt lie doesn’t get it. They’re also not told that Zoloft and all the other psychiatric drugs can cause depression, suicide and mania, to mention just a few side effects. (Many psychiatric patients experience these things when taking the drugs. The doctors tell them that they always had these mental disorders and that the drug is just bringing them out. Another lie.)
Out of the millions of people who have been told by their doctors that they have a chemical imbalance in their brain, not one of them can show you their lab test report.
Why? Because there are no lab tests for chemical imbalances in the brain. In fact, no one knows exactly what the chemical balance of the brain should be. What we do know for sure is that drugs cause a chemical imbalance in the body. The diagnosis, like all psychiatric diagnosis is completely subjective. “But,” you say, “They are the experts in the field of the mind. Surely, if they say I’m crazy I must be crazy!”
Well, exactly how expert are they? In her book, Whores of the Court, Dr. Margaret Hagen points out that child psychological professionals are worse than chance at determining when kids are lying. That in almost two out of three cases psych professionals incorrectly predict which criminals will repeat their offenses. And that therapy for convicted sex offenders and batterers doesn’t work.
The magazine, Psychology Today, had an article a few years back showing that mental health experts had more suicides, more drug abuse problems and more divorces than any other profession. Would you take your car to a mechanic who couldn’t fix his own car?
Is psychiatry a pseudoscience?
Psychology and psychiatry went wrong 100 years ago when they decided to use a medical model for mental and spiritual problems. Claiming that man was nothing more than a stimulus-response animal with no soul, all mental problems became medical problems with the brain. This meant they were forced to look for physical solutions to all mental and spiritual problems (drugs, lobotomies, shock treatment).
No matter how hard mental practitioners try to prove mental illness is physical, their studies are always disproved. All scientists go through a process where they develop a theory then do experiments to prove or disprove the theory. Once they have success they write it up in their journals so other scientists can independently test the theory to see if they get the same results. Only after it’s been proven this way does it get broadly published to the public as a new discovery.
Psychs, on the other hand, develop a theory, do some experiments, then write a book and go on talk shows. The public hears these “studies” and assumes they’re scientific. The public never hears that the theory was disproved—even by other psychs! So the flawed theory gets into the public mind as fact.
A while ago I was watching a congressional hearing on the over-drugging of children. The first psychiatrist, an APA man, had very impressive full color charts showing how kids with ADHD had a ten percent shrinkage in their brains. Very impressive. Physical proof that ADHD exists. Until another psychiatrist showed that it was actually Ritalin that caused the brain shrinkage.
Another fact the public isn’t privy to, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) was voted into existence. There is no physical proof for ADHD or any of the other almost 400 so-called mental disorders. (See “Making Us Crazy—DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders,” by Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk.)
You might be reading this and thinking, “But I know a kid who was totally uncontrollable until he took Ritalin. There must be truth in what the doctors say.” Sorry, what you’re looking at is a kid with a problem. It could be any number of things: bored out of his mind, allergies, too much sugar, discipline or study related problems. But a problem is not a disease. Taking Ritalin, or Prozac or whatever, does not cure anything. It just shuts you up. If you take an aspirin you haven’t cured your headache. The aspirin just desensitized your nervous system so you couldn’t feel the headache. But the headache is still there. And what’s causing the headache is still there.
The psychs claim taking Prozac is comparable to a diabetic taking insulin. But diabetes is not a problem. It’s a physical thing that can be seen in a lab. Depression is not.
The psych drugs don’t cure anything. They just desensitize your emotions. Good and bad ones. And when the drug wears off the problem is still there.
It takes courage to put your career on the line and say something that goes against the majority belief. The powers-that-be are trying to crucify Tom and divert our attention from finding the truth. And the truth is: the new religion of the day is psychiatry. Try to criticize them and you’ve got a mental disorder. Sound crazy? Then you never heard of Non Compliance With Treatment disorder. No, I’m not making this up. Disagree with your doctor and you’ve got a mental disorder! Talk about a Catch-22.
So is psychiatry a pseudoscience? Chances are your grandmother was more effective in handling life than your shrink.
A new study found that fluoxetine (Prozac) and citalopram (Celexa) treatment significantly inhibited disease progression of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice. Research led by Sandra Sacre, Ph.D. from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) in the UK studied the anti-arthritic potential of these drugs, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), most commonly used to treat depression. Both SSRIs exhibited anti-inflammatory effects and may provide drug development opportunities for arthritic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Full findings of this study are published in the March issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology.
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No, not all people who are on antidepressants should be. But anxiety disorders and some depressive disorders are purely chemical imbalances in the brain. A chemical imbalance can't be fixed by exercising or eating vitamins. They are a sickness. Can you cure strep throat by telling the infected to run a few laps? Absolutely not. True brain illnesses deserve treatment too.
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“Separation of church and state” separation of church of state refers to separating the state from acting on behalf of the church. It doesn't mean the religious views should be completely ignore.
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Treating panic disorders can be a very difficult thing to do for frequent victims of panic attacks and anxiety.
I just finished a research paper on the pros and cons of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ie. Prozac). If not completely BAAAAAAAAAAD news, as least very misrepresented regarding benefits vs. risks. Was a surprised to learn that Bush Sr. is is on the board for Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac? No, I was not. While he was in power rules changed re: how drugs get approval and started allowing for those direct-to-consumer “ask your doctor” TV ads. Coincidence? Naw. If I get the postpartum crazies again I'll be going for cognitive therapy.
It's a shame that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are ineffective treatments for tropical depressions.
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hes so defensive. Matts asking clarifying questions and he takes it as an insult to what he is saying.
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RT A doctor specialising in chemical imbalances in the brain is now following me. I doubt I'm the control subject.
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Drugging Defenseless Foster Children for Profit
By Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD
Author: THE ADHD FRAUD: How Psychiatry Make ‘Patients’ of Normal Children
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Foster children are not a sick population or a medical population. Nor are they an epidemic! The pain they suffer stems from abandonment and abuse and can only be stopped by stopping the abuse and by matching them in life with one or more human beings who will care for, value, and love them—things that cannot be bought. Only then will their anger, depression, and anxieties be eradicated. No psychiatric pill is justified or appropriate.
Health Canada, on November 10, 2008 and the US-FDA on March 12, 2009, confessed that “For mental/psychiatric disorders in general, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and ADHD, there are no confirmatory gross, microscopic or chemical abnormalities that have been validated for objective physical diagnosis.” Psychiatry’s sham bio-medical literature, commencing with the invention of hyperkinetic disorder (HKD) in 1970, must no longer be used to justify the labeling and poisoning of normals.
Show me one psychiatric disorder or diagnosis that is an actual disease, having, as it must, a gross abnormality (a visible birthmark or a lump or mass) a microscopic abnormality (such as cancer cells from a ‘Pap’ smear or a surgical biopsy) or a chemical abnormality (such as high blood sugar in diabetes of phenylalanine in phenylketonuria—one of over a hundred real, genetically-caused, ‘chemical imbalances’ of the brain and body).
Those whose only diagnoses are psychiatric/psychological are medically, physically, normal when diagnosed. Their first and only ‘disease,’ verifiable by chemical assay of blood, urine or any body fluid or organ, is the intoxication/poisoning that follows, which, throughout psychiatry is called ‘treatment’. Show me one of their drugs that is not merely a poison which acts by damaging, crippling and anesthetizing the brain.
Who invited psychiatrists and other ‘pushers’ of psychiatric drugs into the foster care arena? They appear when paged whenever a new ward of the court, a new foster conscript, is admitted. Often they never see the patient but scribble down a list of subjective symptoms and then the mandatory, drug-justifying ‘disease’ labels, such as ADHD and bipolar disorder, much as in two and a half year old Rebecca Riley, who died at four, not from her ‘disorders’/ ‘diseases’ but from the poisons used to ‘treat’ them: Adderall, a mix of amphetamine salts, and Seroquel, an antipsychotic capable of causing a textbook full of adverse brain and body effects–sudden cardiac death, among them. But this is what child psychiatrists do. Medicine is the art and science of the diagnosis and treatment of disease. This does not apply to psychiatry.
In 2002, Stubbe, et al, in a survey of child and adolescent psychiatrists found that 61% of patients were provided psychopharmacology/drug assessment and treatment and no other treatment such as psychotherapy while thirty percent of all patients were treated with psychotherapy plus medication. Only 9 percent received psychotherapy alone. Here we have it: 91%, 90 percent of them neurologically normal, given a drug or drugs. Is this not the definition of ‘pusher’?
Even officials from the Florida's Department of Children & Families admit they use drugs to often to manage troubled children. When did being “troubled” become a disease?
Nor do all the previous failures of the birth parents justify such drugging. If physically and medically normal the children are capable not only of learning and achieving self control, but of literacy, and gaining an education—even a college education. But not when drugged out of their minds, not with dose-related or fixed, permanent and worsening mind-brain damage.
Do physicians who prescribe 1, 5, 10 or 15 psychiatric drugs for normal children merely fail a test of professional ethics? What should we call it when a physicians trained to know normal from abnormal–disease-free from diseased, restrains a normal child with psychiatric drugs, knowingly damaging their brain and body putting them at risk of permanent disability and death. This is above and beyond ethics, it is immoral? It is assault and battery—criminal! It is long past time to acknowledge this and to move accordingly against those who profit by victimizing this medically normal population.
Saying physicians have a legal and ethical duty to obtain informed consent before psychiatric medication is prescribed suggests that psychiatric diagnoses are actual diseases/abnormalities, made normal by psychiatric drugs when none are. Instead, every such diagnosis asks the normal patient their family to believe they are diseased, disordered chemically imbalanced for no purpose other than to make a patient of them—a patient to diagnose, treat and from whom to profit.
As healthcare reform is debated around the country, psychiatric diagnosis and treatment must be exposed for the contrivance and fraud it is and must be expunged. So doing we would immediately free up hundreds of billions of dollars for real, legitimate, now-unmet healthcare needs while removing millions of normal human beings, including virtually all in foster care, from harms way and into non-drugging systems of treatment and care that stand a vastly greater chance of making them into healthy productive citizens, not doomed to lives of drugs and psychiatrically pre-ordained, lifetime disability, but, instead, prepared to take there place in society as normal, healthy, whole, productive citizens they have the potential to become.