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Panic attack is described as an intense fear, producing a rash of frightening symptoms such as a pounding heart and shortness of breath. Some even describe a sensation of losing control or feeling as if they are going to die. So who is affected by panic attack? Well, the numbers may surprise you in fact, about one in three people are likely to have an attack.
The Benefits Of Panic Attack Medication
While there is a leaning towards getting to the root cause of a person’s constant fear of panic attacks medications have proven to be an effective relief mechanism for chronic sufferers.
Are medications the answer? Not long term but as a safety net, they often become relied upon by sufferers. This then leads to the question of…"do panic disorder sufferers become dependent or addicted to medications? In the case of Benzodiazepines, there is a risk of dependency and they are not really recommended for long term use. But there effectiveness for immediate relief is strong.
For long term relief, Tricyclic antidepressants are normally used but if their effectiveness is retarded in any way, then Benzodiazepines may be the next alternative or used in conjunction with antidepressants. Tricyclic antidepressants are effective in reducing the incidence of re occurring attacks.As with any drugs of the nature of antidepressants, when weaning off them it should be done in a gradual manner.
Are there side effects associated with panic attack medication? This is something you will need to discuss with your doctor. In the case of Benzodiazepines, side effects such as fatigue, drowsiness, slurred speech and memory loss are possible.
So are there alternatives to medications.
Did You Know?
Having an isolated panic attack doesn’t mean a person will develop a panic attack disorder. However, the latter is a factor when a person suffers constant attacks and the best course of action is to seek professional help.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Medications are considered a fix for the symptoms of panic disorder however, getting to the cause of the underlying problem is best achieved through counselling. A popular form of counselling is Cognitive-behavioural therapy and it’s aim is to modify certain thoughts and behaviour patterns to control the symptoms.
An example of this type of treatment involves working with a therapist and basically predicting when a panic attack is going to occur. How does this help you? The idea is you will learn of ways to deal or respond to a panic attack which will help eliminate the fear of having another attack. Your therapist will introduce you to effective exercises designed to identify your destructive or fearful thought patterns and alter them.
The process can usually be a long and involved one and eventually, when a patient is confident of controlling their attacks, they are introduced to controlled situations or areas where they have experienced or had cause to experience panic attacks in the past.
What Will You Do Next?
The debate rages on about the effectiveness of medications, not as a fix for symptoms but as a long tern solution. The idea that panic attack may be better tackled by looking for the root cause makes a lot of sense with on going research in this area. The fact is, if you currently suffer from chronic panic disorder then doing nothing is not your best option.
Author: Dean Caporella
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In our lives, we all want peace and happiness. We hope for a happy and pleasant environment around us all the time. However, to have all this we must be living in an ultimate world. However, we all know that our world is not ideal and tensions, panicky situations and anxieties arise every now and then.
However, we should not be afraid of them and whenever these situations arise we must be armed to deal with them in the most efficient manner possible. For this, we must first be able to examine our emotions and accept them as they are. Understanding the emotions can help you to learn to control the emotions without allowing the devastating feelings and emotions take control. As the last step, we must try to transform all such negative emotions like anxiety and panic into encouraging ones.
Anxiety has often been connected with worry and both are understood as the same emotion. Nevertheless, this is not true because although both are forms of fear but anxiety is related more to time and resources constraints whereas worry is a result of an anxiety that something we plan will not work out well.
Anxiety occurs because sometimes we need to complete a tight-string project and we fall in a rush. The project is of greatest importance and because of shortage of time or any other contributing factor you will not be able to terminate it to perfection or on time.
Often worry also results from the same reasons. Nevertheless, the major difference here that we must recognize is that it may not just be a result of lack of resources but may be also due to some problem with your child or spouse or any other personal issue. Worries are a result of our personal attachments with certain beings or things.
Since childhood, all these feelings are absorbed by our mind. We see the way people react to certain situations and emulate them. While some people behave in appositive manner to situations other don’t. Whichever affects us more determines how we behave to those situations.
To throw away all these anxieties and worries one must follow a proper system and diet. In helping you to reduce anxiety and panic situations, the below mentioned points will go a long way.
1.Regular exercises like an early morning walk, jog, or aerobics.
2.Try yoga. It helps in getting better your blood flow and reduces hyperventilation.
3.Whenever a panic situation arises, try to concentrate with deep breathing.
4.Try meditation as a solution searching method.
5.Follow a healthy low fat and high vitamin diet.
Following the aforementioned routine and steps will help you in freeing yourself from negative thoughts and emotions and creating a positive atmosphere around you. Try these positive countermeasures to anxiety whenever it strikes.
1.We must accept that whatever is happening to us has no purpose to harm us. We must give whatever we do, our best shot but it is useless to worry about the results. Once you have given it, your best shot there is no reason why you should fail, so why panic.
2.We must have self-belief in ourselves. We must tell ourselves that nothing is impossible unto us and that we can face all the problems of life without giving up on them.
3.We should never think low about ourselves. Like everyone else, we are all humans and have equal rights to life. We should never worry about what others think about us because at the end of the day you are your best judge.
4.You must be reminiscent yourself at all times that life is meant for being lived every moment and not for worrying every moment what the next will bring about.
By: Nishanth Reddy
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Are you suffering from anxiety disorder, depression or anxiety depression? You don’t know whether you are depressed or anxious? The coexistence of these two disorders – anxiety and depression – is known as comorbidity in the mental healthcare business and indeed carries some very serious repercussions. Here is the take on anxiety depression.
In the world of mental problems and healthcare, where accurate diagnosis requires immediate treatment, anxiety and depression are generally considered to be two different disorders. But in the real world, most people suffer from both these conditions simultaneously. In truth, most mood related conditions are simply a combination of anxiety and depression. According to surveys, almost 60-70% of the people suffering from depression also have anxiety. Similarly, those people suffering from chronic anxiety also show symptoms of depression.
Anxiety depression raises the risk of suicide and impairs all sorts of functioning – be it in relationships or at work. In the last few years, researchers and clinicians alike have been trying to solve the problem and have moved towards a new and different conclusion: anxiety and depressions are not two different disorders that coexist with each other. They are but two different faces of one disorder only. They are two sides to the same coin.
What is anxiety depression?
Anxiety depression disorder or bipolar disorder is a very difficult condition. Not only does it affect your ability to think clearly and use careful judgment, but it also manages to affect your emotional well-being. Normal habits, like eating and sleeping are also adversely affected.
The symptoms for anxiety depression disorder vary from individual to individual, but usually include feelings of frustrations and agitation. Most people complain of feeling restless, and mindless, and pacing is a common symptom as is the overwhelming feeling of being ‘keyed up’.
How does bipolar disorder start? The source of bipolar disorder is unknown but researchers say that most people tend to bottle up anxiety within them. These disorganized and racing thoughts build up and explode like a volcanic eruption. Stress is generally the main trigger for depressive episodes in people suffering from anxiety depression disorder. Stress generally leads to anxiety, which in turn can lead to severe depression – two of the main symptoms of someone suffering from bipolar disorder.
When a person is experiencing anxiety, the brain will respond by releasing cortisol and adrenaline into the bloodstream. This will cause the person in question to experience feelings of heightened awareness and an increased heart rate that leads to uneasiness and shakiness. Personal relationships and job performance suffer. People suffering from this disorder are generally irritable, feel anxious always and are convinced that disaster is about to strike. They will eventually begin to avoid crowded places, socializing and anything that could make them uncomfortable.
Attacking Anxiety and Depression
The treatment for anxiety and depression disorder varies from individual to individual due to the levels of severity and underlying causes. Treatment entirely depends on prior diagnosis and evaluation and includes a combination of medication, group therapy or psychotherapy. Here are some common methods of treatment for anxiety and depression disorder:
- Medications – Antidepressants are generally described, which are used to soothe the neuro transmitters in the brain so that anxiety and depression to an extent are relieved. Other medications prescribed are MAOI’s or Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, or SSRI’s or Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors. Some drugs help by controlling the enzyme production that in turn affects these neuro-transmitters. While other drugs control the levels of Serotonin produced. Whatever may be prescribed, the doctor is the best person to choose the kind of treatment you will have to undergo.
- Psychotherapy – be it the creative or verbal type, psychotherapy is based on many therapeutic systems like psychodynamic psychotherapy, humanistic psychotherapy, systemic psychotherapy, integrated psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, existential psychotherapy, and strategic psychotherapy – or it could be a combination of these systems.
- Lifestyle changes – When treating anxiety and depression disorders, lifestyle changes are also required to be made. From fitness and exercise regimes to dietary restrictions to improving your social life, the treatments can vary.
Whatever may be the method of attacking anxiety depression, ultimately it is up to the patient suffering from this disorder – whether or not he wants to rid himself of the condition and how open he is to treatment.
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March 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm
When trying to deal with public speaking fears, it’s important to fully understand that fear of public speaking is something that starts and ‘lives’ in your mind.
Sure, your body feels the sweating and the nervous stomach, but what happens BEFORE the sweating and nervous stomach?
The answer is that you are running pictures and movies in your mind that are making you sweat and causing that knot in your stomach.
I’ve discovered in the public speaking trainings I teach that the movies are different for everyone – everyone has their own ‘recipe’ to create fear of public speaking:
Some people picture the audience laughing at them.
Some people picture the audience getting up and walking out.
Some people picture themselves making horrible mistakes.
Some people even picture the audience as being like giants, and picture themselves as small and insignificant.
Although the movies and pictures are different for everyone, the common denominator is the fact that they are picturing total failure, horrible humiliation, or painful rejection of some sort.
That’s what causes fear of public speaking.
Now let’s get to how to get rid of fear of public speaking... but first I want you to rate your fear of public speaking on a scale of 1 to 10 – 1 being least and 10 being most fear.
Imagine the worst possible thing happening when doing public speaking.
Now, how do you rate your fear on a scale of 1 to 10?
Okay, now let’s get rid of that fear: sit or lie down comfortably where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes.
Take the fingertips of each hand and place them directly above your eyebrows about an inch.
Touch your forehead on those 2 spots lightly – DO NOT press and DO NOT spread out your fingers.
Now start breathing deeply into your diaphragm so that your abdomen rises and falls as you breathe.
As you breathe deeply, begin to think about doing public speaking.
Run the movies in your mind of failure, rejection – whatever bothers you most of all.
Don’t hold back, really let yourself imagine the worst most painful things you can imagine.
BUT KEEP BREATHING DEEPLY! That is super-important for this technique to work.
Keep your fingers on your forehead and imagine the worst-case scenarios.
Keep touching your forehead and breathing deeply to your abdomen & keep running worst case scenarios over and over.
After a few minutes, you’ll be surprised and delighted when you notice that those scenarios don’t bother you anymore!
Now – sit up, take your hands off your forehead, and now rate your fear on a scale of 1 to 10 – It’s much, much reduced, isn’t it!
Repeat the ESR Technique until thinking about public speaking worst case scenarios don’t bother you anymore.
Summary:
This technique is ostensibly very simple, yet extremely powerful, and it really works! And what have you got to lose? At the worst, you’ll lose a few minutes of your time. But the upside is that you might discover that your fear of public speaking anxiety no longer has a stranglehold on you any more.
By: David Portney
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David Portney is the author of ’129 Seminar Speaking Success Tips and the founder of the Academy of Public Speaking located in Redondo Beach, California where he personally teaches specialized workshops and public speaking trainings. Visit David’s website www.bestpublicspeakingtraining.com
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March 9, 2009 at 11:55 am
Do you hold back from starting new relationships because you are always worried that you might get rejected? If a fear of rejection is holding you back from forming new friendships or relationships, there is help available. You can learn to greatly overcome your shyness and your fear of being rejected and start having the relationships you really deserve.
Does your shyness and fear of getting rejected keep you from having the relationships you want? Are you lonely much of the time?
Everyone gets rejected at times, but for those of us who are socially confident, rejection is a minor matter, and people who are confident quickly move on.
For many of us however, rejection is a traumatic event, and just the thought that someone might possibly reject us is enough to make us run away from the very people we want to get to know.
People who suffer from a fear of rejection sometimes start to believe that they are deeply flawed, unlovable human beings.
When they look at others who are socially successful, they assume that socially successful people are different and better human beings.
People who fear being rejected believe that when someone rejects them, it’s because the other person realizes how deeply flawed they are. They believe the rejection was their own fault.
They don’t realize that even very confident, very attractive people get rejected too.
People who fear rejection don’t realize that the real reason that relationships either happen or don’t happen depends on how compatible the combination is of the two people involved.
Instead people who are very afraid of rejection think that every time they make an overture to someone else, it’s a referendum on their own personal worth.
Relationships are largely a question of compatibility on many levels.
So, when we get turned down by somebody, it’s not some kind of proof that we are deeply flawed.
It just means the other person didn’t think we were a good match at this time.
It is a fact of life that when we make social overtures to other people, we face the risk that people will sometimes reject us. The only people who never experience rejection are those who never interact with other human beings. Otherwise, everyone occasionally experiences situations in which they are rejected. You might get turned down for coffee, for a dance, for a party, a relationship, or even for marriage.
The more we dwell negatively upon an instance of rejection, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to face another occasion when we might get rejected again.
When we experience rejection, we can tell ourselves that we are doomed to be rejected forever; that any rejection from another person is proof that we are somehow not good enough, and that we were wrong to ever think that another person could like us.
But is this the only way to look at rejection? Remember that people who have healthy self- esteem, who are outgoing and who make lots of social overtures to others, get rejected too. The difference is that they don’t feel nearly as troubled by rejection. They don’t take it personally.
There is good news though. Even if you are very emotionally sensitive or shy, even if you didn’t get much emotional support as you were growing up, you can still learn to change the way you talk to yourself about the experience of rejection. You will have to practice a lot to change the way you think about rejection, and you may need the help of a good therapist to point out new, more supportive ways of thinking.
Rejection is never fun to experience, and for some people, it’s not easy to overcome.
Those people who are very emotionally sensitive, who lack confidence and self esteem, or who are very shy:
– tend to fear the risk of rejection far more than socially confident people do
– are more likely to experience rejection as a very painful and humiliating experience.
– often assume they are entirely to blame if they are rejected
– are likely to interpret social rejection as proof that they are somehow at fault, or defective.
– are more likely to imagine rejection even where none has occurred
– are more likely to avoid social interactions if they believe rejection might occur.
– are more likely to believe that if they have been rejected by one person, they will continue to be rejected by everyone else, for the rest of their lives.
Here is a brief summary of steps you can take to overcome your fear of rejection:
– Remind yourself why you want to overcome your fear of rejection. Remind yourself that your goal is to have a happy social life.
– Change what you say to yourself about rejection. Don’t tie your self worth to whether or not you get accepted or rejected by other people.
– Take a series of baby steps when developing new relationships.
– Look for signs of receptiveness in the other person.
– Deliberately set out to collect as many rejections as you can
– When you are out making approaches to other people, tell yourself that it’s just practice, it doesn’t count.
– Make many, many social approaches to other people.
One way that you can lessen the likelihood and frequency of rejection is to allow your relationships to develop slowly. Take baby steps. When relationships develop slowly, you must still make efforts to approach the other person, but your efforts will be low key and casual, rather than intense.
If the other person shows signs of enjoying your company and seems eager to continue your conversations, then he or she will probably be receptive to any overtures you make and any invitations you extend.
Although it may sound terrifying, one of the best ways to overcome a fear of rejection is to deliberately put yourself into situations where you get rejected a lot. This strategy is actually used by some therapists who specialize in the treatment of shyness.
When you intensely fear rejection, you may arrange your whole life to avoid any situations that can trigger your terror. You will be convinced that getting rejected by someone is the most horrible thing that could ever happen to you. You never get a chance to expose yourself to the feared situation and learn how to overcome your fear.
However, if you actually confront the situations in which you feel anxious, your anxiety may lessen as you become more used to dealing with the feared event. By proving to yourself that you can face up to your fears, they will eventually lose their power over you.
People who intensely fear rejection, and who suffer terribly when they have been rejected, often tie their sense of self-worth to what they imagine others are thinking of them.
Even though we can’t control whether or not other people reject us, we can control how we react to rejection.
We don’t need to condemn ourselves when we are rejected, and we don’t need to stop interacting with other people just because there is a chance they might reject us.
Remember, if you never put yourself in a situation where someone can say "no" to you, you will also never be in a situation where someone can say "yes" to you.
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March 9, 2009 at 11:53 am
Are you shy? Do you have difficulty coping with people or situations? Then I have good news for you. You do not have to suffer from shyness and you should not feel insecure and fear that you are being judged with every step you take.
Winning the war with shyness takes practice, but is definitely well worth the effort as the result is increasing confidence and self esteem. Wake up feeling good about yourself, able to face the world with confidence and security and the knowing that no feeling of shyness can come in your way of achieving your desires.
There are hundreds of books written on the subject of how beat shyness and gain confidence, but there are a few techniques that anyone can practice. Here are 6 suggestions of techniques on how to overcome your shyness:
1. Every morning, as soon as you get up, get in front of a mirror and say out loud "I feel terrific! I feel terrific! I feel terrific!" Repeat this affirmation with enthusiasm at least ten times everyday until it’s ingrained into your subconscious mind. If feel a little self conscious to begin with lock yourself in the bathroom. The results will amaze you.
2. Feel good about yourself. Look your best. Dress up more often. This gives you an extra feeling of confidence and self esteem. On its own just knowing that you look good will boost your confidence and reinforce with others that there are things about you that are worth getting to know.
3. Take a risk at least once a day. It’s very invigorating and conquering fears by taking risks helps you grow in confidence and self esteem. Start with small risks and fears and as you overcome them move onto bigger things. There’s nothing you cannot do. Be confident in knowing that change can only help you grow, and boost your self confidence.
4. When you are engaged in a one to one conversation, or with a larger group of people, let them know that you’re shy. This prevents them from misreading you and they are far more likely to invite you into the conversation rather than leave you just listening and wishing you could contribute.
Many people, me included, find following a conversation in a noisy room difficult. If you are having difficulty say so and move so that you can hear. People respect honesty, and vulnerability and you will attract more honest people into your life as a result.
5. Rejection is a fact of life that everyone experiences. It is rarely you that is being rejected. If you are rejected, for example if you ask someone for a date, remember that everyone has different likes and dislikes. You may be attracted to one type of person and not others. The same applies to other people and you are probably just not their type. That does not devalue you in any way. Accept this and know that you will get over it. Never take it personally and keep in mind that if people reject you it is because of their own likes and dislikes and not because of who you are. You are equally entitled to reject others because of your likes and dislikes.
6. Engage in an activities that make you feel excited and good about yourself or start a hobby that gives you a feeling of relaxation. This could be anything from gardening to Tai Chi to Karate. Take some lessons, learn or master a musical instrument or take singing lessons. Do something that excites you and take a risk. Exploring things that make you feel excited is a great antidote for shyness.
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John Edmond recently obtained a degree in creative writing and now writes on a number of topics including self help, personal growth and self esteem. Go to http://www.buildingselfesteem.info for more information
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February 21, 2009 at 12:45 pm
What we know is that when someone has a phobia or has experienced a traumatic event which still bothers them in the present, they tend to regularly re-live or replay their phobia or trauma by seeing a picture and then getting all the bad feelings that go with that picture.
If you have a phobia that impacts significantly on your life, that leads to you avoiding situations, feeling overwhelmed or highly anxious, then you may be interested in this article about an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) technique. I have found this treatment technique, at my NLP and Hypnotherapy practice, Herts, very useful in helping people recover from intense and impairing phobias. It is also used to help people deal with memories from traumatic events.What we know is that when someone has a phobia or has experienced a traumatic event which still bothers them in the present, they tend to regularly re-live or replay their phobia or trauma by seeing a picture and then getting all the bad feelings that go with that picture.
I have treated many people for phobias at my NLP and Hypnotherapy practice in Hertfordshire. For example, Sarah came to see me at my NLP practice Herts, because she was due to give a reading at her best-friends wedding and was terrified of public speaking. The wedding was six weeks away, and Sarah was constantly feeling anxious and dreading the event, which she felt guilty about. Sarah was also frustrated at how her fear was holding her back at work.
After carrying out a consultation with Sarah it became obvious that her fear began during childhood as she had several strong memories of feeling highly anxious in situations that required her to speak or be the centre of attention. For example, Sarah would often replay her memory of trying to make herself vomit in the toilets at a children’s party so that she could avoid helping a magician in front of the other children.
Sarah has many vivid visual memories related to her phobia that caused her anxiety but often people will have one image and associated feelings that they tend to replay. During our therapy sessions, at NLP and Hypnotherapy, Herts, I explained to Sarah about the Fast Phobia technique (also called the visual/kinesthetic dissociation technique).
This process involves replaying the visual memory of the anxiety provoking incident but in a completely different way then Sarah had been used to. By replaying the memory in a different way, the loop of seeing a picture (V) and then experiencing unpleasant feelings (K) is broken. This enables the person to process and recode the event, to give it a new meaning, so that it is no longer a problem or is at the very least significant less anxiety provoking.This technique works best with people who are able to visualize well and since this was the case with Sarah, we set to work on each of her events that she associated with her phobia and which still cause her anxiety. Prior to working on each of the events, Sarah was asked to rate how anxiety provoking each memory was.
In the first part of the phobia treatment, Sarah was asked to imagine that she was in a cinema sitting in a chair watching the screen. On the screen was a Black and White movie of a traumatic event she had chosen to work on. So Sarah would be watching a movie of herself in the event. Before she did this however, Sarah was asked to imagine herself floating upwards towards and into the projection booth, so that she was now going to watch herself in the cinema seat, watching a move of herself! The purpose of this part of the phobia technique is that is enables the person to review the movie but dissociated from the feelings.
These are very important changes that allow a new perception for the client. Changing the color image on the screen to black & white reduces the intensity of the movie being watched and suggests that it is old and in the past. By stepping into an outside observer position, Sarah is removed from the event, enabling her to watch the event with it feeling much less threatening. Sarah was then asked to play the movie through remaining dissociated. This enabled Sarah to think about the memory without having the fearful feeling for the first time.
During the second half of the treatment process Sarah was asked to imagine leaving the projection booth and walking up and stepping into the movie screen. Once inside the screen she was asked to change the movie to color and told to watch the movie backwards as if on rewind. This time Sarah was associated into the event, seeing through her own eyes. Sarah was told to rewind the movie as quickly as she could. This part was repeated several times until Sarah was able to play the movie backwards faster and faster. This time we played music at the same time. The chosen music was from a cartoon and was quick paced and comical. Both parts of the process were repeated several times. Sarah found that the movie became light hearted and non-anxiety provoking. In fact when we worked on her wedding speech she found she imagined the audience warming to her and herself feeling confident and relaxed. She even had the audience dancing along!!!
Through using this technique Sarah was able to re-process all of her scary memories of speaking events and felt much more confident and ready to deliver her wedding speech. Other techniques such as anchoring were also taught to help Sarah on the day. NLP and Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire uses the Fast Phobia Technique to support people in overcoming phobias.
Karen Hastings is an occupational therapist, master NLP practitioner and Hypnotherapist. Karen uses hypnotic techniques alongside NLP and CBT to help overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Karen is based in Hertfordshire and also offers home-visits in Herts and Bucks. Visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk for more information
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February 21, 2009 at 12:17 pm
In today’s hectic world of fast paced living and competitive work arena, it’s no longer a wonder that a lot of people suffer from the negative effects of depression, anxiety, and stress. These three issues have seemed to become a part of daily life for millions of people around the world -every day they deal with shallow breathing, rapid heartbeats, and the ‘feeling’ of suffocation from the ‘choking fog’ that surrounds them all through their normal daily activities.
Let’s take a closer look at what depression, ,Social anxiety and stress really are, and what they do to the body. Depression is that emotion of being hopeless, ‘down’, or losing interest in doing things or activities. It may last for a short time such as several weeks, or last longer like months or even years; it may be triggered by significant events or biological reasons. It may disrupt one’s family life, as well as lead to alcohol and drug abuse, and affect one’s ability to work.
Anxiety disorders on the other hand, are disorders that entail apprehension and fear about future happenings. This can result to excessive worrying and can disrupt the life of a person -irritability, fatigue, restlessness, muscle tension, and impaired sleep and concentration.
Stress is the body’s reaction to events that confront it; on the whole, stress can be connected with anxiety and depression at times. When depression, anxiety, and stress unite overwhelmingly, it becomes a form of overstress. Overstress will take its toll on the body, both physically and mentally, and so it is essential that one takes action to manage overstress.
Depression, anxiety, and stress management is an important step to reducing or eradicating the negative effects that these three factors can give the body. There are various options for depression, anxiety, and stress management, and its effectiveness will depend on what works best for the individual’s need. Generally, the aim of depression, anxiety, and stress management, is to lessen the pressure load, help the individual to cope with their depression, anxiety, and stress, at the same time as helping the person get back to being ‘healthy’ again.
Some helpful tips for reducing one’s pressure load includes: lessening the ‘pace of change’ in one’s life; reducing school or work obligations; diminishing social obligations ; saying ‘no’ more often; reducing environmental toxins; postponing changes in one’s living situation; and eliminating possible environmental or food allergens. Keep in mind that the initial step to an effective depression, anxiety, and stress management is taking action before it starts to ‘take action on you’.
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February 21, 2009 at 11:33 am
Social phobia is one of the most common anxiety disorders in which a person is scared of being in certain social settings. A person with social phobia suffers from incapacitating anxiety that affects their personal and daily life.
People with social phobia are very self-conscious and concerned about what others may think or say about them. They are typically afraid of speaking up, out of fear that they will be criticized or judged. Those with social phobia tend to be down on themselves or suffer from feelings of low self-worth. They are worried about being noticed by other people and find socializing to be very terrifying.
A person with social phobia may seem "shy," but in the case of a phobia, this is taken to extremes. For example, if you suffer from social anxiety, you might hesitate to make a crucial phone call because you are anxious about talking on the telephone. You dial the number, but you are so anxious that you "freeze up" or forget why you called. Although it happens to everyone once in awhile, for someone with social phobia it may occur every time, to the point where they find it near impossible to make any calls.
Perhaps it is the night before an important presentation at work and you find yourself panicking. You hate the thought of being in front of your supervisor and all your colleagues watching as you discuss a new idea or project. You can’t stop yourself from feeling very embarrassed and self-conscious. Even after the meeting, you continue overanalyzing everything you said and did. You worry that you humiliated yourself in front of your co-workers by stammering or saying something wrong.
Perhaps you would like to go to parties and meet new people, but you avoid social gatherings because you are anxious about meeting new people. You find the crowds intimidating and the thought of meeting someone new scares you. You worry about what you’ll say, or that you’ll get rejected. You might end up staying at home very often because you are too scared to go out. These are only some examples of the way social phobias can affect our lives.
Social phobias are irrational fears that can stop you from achieving your career goals or fully enjoying life. But even those who know their fears are irrational may not know how to handle their fears. People with social anxiety disorder would love to be more social and meet new people, but are too scared to try. Despite their conscious desires and efforts, they cannot completely control their phobia because every phobia is rooted at the unconscious mind. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques are the most successful phobia treatments because they resolve issues at the unconscious level.
It can be hard for sufferers of social anxiety to get cured because they can be reluctant to see a counselor or talk about their condition. This is why hypnosis for social anxiety programs work well for them. The programs foster a peaceful and confidence-boosting mind frame in a privacy, without being overwhelming or intimidating.
The first part of a phobia program is relaxation therapy.Social anxiety hypnosis therapy is a powerful tool for eliminating your stress and tension. At the moment when you are completely relaxed, hypnotherapy techniques will form positive thoughts in your unconscious mind and eliminate your social phobia. NLP techniques will eliminate your fears by targeting the thought process that causes a phobia.
In conventional hypnosis, specially worded post-hypnotic suggestions are used to treat every different phobia. Unfortunately, people have a tendency to resist being directly told what to think or do, so conventional hypnosis is not always effective. A deeply rooted phobia requires the use of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP.
Ericksonian hypnosis techniques are more effective than conventional hypnosis because they utilize suggestions that are not obvious to your conscious mind, instead of direct suggestions. These ideas are hidden in conversation, in various stories and metaphors, to persuade your unconscious mind to adopt a different line of reasoning. For this reason, Ericksonian hypnosis is much more refined than traditional hypnotherapy and far harder for the unconscious mind to reject.
A single program that utilizes Ericksonian hypnotic therapy and NLP techniques can treat social phobia and any other phobia, in any individual. This is because several techniques are used together to increase their effectiveness. People are frequently amazed at the almost miraculous results they see using hypnosis. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP are great tools to help build your confidence and beat social anxiety so you will be able to live your life to the fullest.
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February 20, 2009 at 11:35 am
Medications and therapy aren’t the only options for anxiety relief. There are many social anxiety self-help strategies you can use to get the best of worry and fear.
A self-help treatment is one that can be used by person without necessarily consulting a health care professional.
- Physical exercise. Because anxiety is the body’s response for fight or flight – physical exercise is a very good way of burning the adrenaline off. It improves our physical well-being and helps to restore balance.
- Eat a healthy, balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
- Avoid alcohol and drug abuse. It may seem that alcohol or drugs relax you. But in the long run they make anxiety worse and cause more problems.
- Avoid caffeine. Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate. Caffeine may increase your sense of anxiety because it stimulates your nervous system.
- Spend as much time as possible with people who make you feel good.
- Share your thoughts and fears with friends, family or a therapist. A journal might be a helpful way to record things that cause make you anxious, stressed or hurt.
- Often, helping someone else can take your mind off your worries and give you perspective. Volunteering on a regular basis or helping someone in need from your neighborhood, church or community can give you a break from yourself and your worries.
- Improve you intimate love relationships. If your anxiety stems from early life issues that interfere with your ability to build safe, trusting, intimate love relationships, you may benefit from learning ways to improve love relationships.
- Plan your day – list the chores or activities that need to be done today, then the ones that can wait until tomorrow. List them in order of priority, and make sure you at least try to do those at the top of the list.
- Relax. Take time out for play, recreation and relaxation and try to spend time doing hobbies or activities you really enjoy.
- Identify your stress or anxiety triggers. Identify the situations or thoughts that cause anxiety. It is only by identifying them that you will learn to control the anxiety. Consider the following: When do I feel anxious? Who am I with? How do other people cope in this situation? Is there anything I can do differently? Am I allowing myself enough time? Is there anyone I can talk to or telephone? Try to limit the known stressors in your life.
- Be realistic – don’t set your goals too high. Lower your expectations.
- Become your own expert. Learning more about your anxiety will help you get the best treatment and enable you to conquer your fears. Read books, visit websites, go to lectures and workshops, and talk to your doctor and therapist.
- Laugh as much as possible and seek out things and people that you find funny (like exercise, laughter causes the release of healthy endorphins in the body). Try to find humor or absurdity in stressful situations.
- Don’t generalize. Notice when you use expressions that generalize ("He always lets me down." "She is never nice to me." "Everyone knows I’m a loser." "No one will help me."). Such statements are rarely true, but when you use them, you are more likely to react to the situation as if they are, which will increase your anxiety.
- Deal with situations/problems before they get out of control.
- Positive Thinking. Optimism can counteract the negative impact stress, tension and anxiety has on your immune system and well-being. Often it is how you perceive things that determine if you get overwhelmed, both mentally and physically. Having a positive attitude, finding the good in what life throws your way and looking at the bright side of things enhances your ability to effectively manage stress.
- Sleep. Getting enough sound sleep has a profound impact on your stress levels, immune function and disease resistance. A chronic lack of sleep can leave you feeling sluggish, irritable, forgetful, accident-prone, and have difficulty concentrating or coping with life’s daily aggravations. Strive to get 7-8 hours of sleep each night.
When social anxiety self-help strategies are not enough to control anxiety symptoms, a number of drugs and several therapies can be tried.
Anti-anxiety drugs (tranquilizers, benzodiazepines) are medications that relieve anxiety by slowing down the central nervous system. Because they work quickly, benzodiazepines are very effective when taken during a panic attack or another overwhelming anxiety episode.
The alternatives to the anti-anxiety tranquilizers include antidepressants, buspirone, and beta blockers. Many medications originally approved for the treatment of depression have been found to relieve anxiety. These include certain SSRIs (paroxetine, fluoxetine, citalopram), tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline), and the newer atypical antidepressants.
Therapies effective in treating anxiety disorders include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), behavioral therapy, and acupuncture.
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