All About Anxiety and Anxiety Attacks
Where does anxiety come from, and how can you control it? If you suffer from anxiety, you will find several tips below to help you live a more productive and happy life.
Anxiety attacks can happen to anyone. If you are under a great deal of stress for any reason, you may easily suffer from an attack. Oftentimes, people who are experiencing difficulty with family or friend relationships — such as problems with marriage or parents — suffer from anxiety. Some people suffer from anxiety that is caused by problems or unhappiness with a job, a boss, or a co-worker. Some people stress about health or money issues. No matter what the problem stems from, one thing is for certain: anxiety can be extremely difficult to deal with.
What happens when you have an anxiety attack?
When you have an anxiety attack, you may experience a shortness of breath. You may begin to sweat. You may feel numb, or you may have a sense of extreme panic. You may develop a rapid heart rate and find that you can’t breathe well. If you have an anxiety attack, it is important to get it under control. You can do so by practicing breathing exercises or taking medications. Let’s look at some other steps that you can take to get your anxiety under wraps.
How do you live a normal life and get your anxiety attacks under control?
You should be aware of a several things if you want to live a normal life and deal properly with your anxiety. In the first place, if your anxiety is severe enough, you can take a prescription anti-anxiety medication to help you. Anti-anxiety medication is prescribed by a qualified mental health professional such as a psychologist or even a family doctor who knows your medical history very well. Some anti-anxiety medications that may be prescribed include Valium, Xanax, and Ativan. It is of utmost importance that your doctor or mental health professional monitor your usage of these drugs. This is due to the fact that they can be very addicting or cause a large variety of side effects, based on your body’s chemistry. Your doctor or mental health professional will make sure that you are administering your medication correctly and are getting benefits from it.
Oftentimes, just having a person to talk to can help you deal with your anxiety. Talking to others can help to take your mind off of your anxiousness. It can also help you to bond with others and make connections that will help you through any panic attacks you may have in the future. Laughing, joking, and just talking to family and friends can make a world of difference when it comes to controlling panic attacks. Being around positive people promotes a sense of well-being and happiness.
Exercise is one other thing that you can do to improve your mental state. Exercise helps to increase the seratonin levels in your brain’s chemistry. These seratonin levels enhance a sense of well-being. Finding an exercise routine and sticking to it will enable you to better your day-to-day anxiety levels. It will also help you to feel better about yourself and your body in general.
So, if you suffer from any for of anxiety, follow some of these tips and life will seem mush easier and happier!
Matthew Hick
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July 10th, 2009 11:06 am
What should i do about bad anxiety attacks?
Im 18 and i have ADD and very bad anxiety. I have these horrible anxiety attacks that seem to come more and more often now. I take 30 mg of prozac and it doesnt seem to help. My pyschiatrist just keeps on upping the dosage but it still doesnt work. can anyone tell me what i should ask him to prescribe me or what i should do. i dont think he gets how bad these attacks are effecting me. What should i ask him to do or to take?
July 10th, 2009 4:08 pm
What has happened in the past thirty years that has caused us to become such a nation of stressed out individuals? Is society expecting too much from us or are we expecting too much from ourselves? Why are so many people suffering from the following:
• Anxiety disorder
• Social anxiety disorder
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Depression
• Panic attacks
Years ago, no one ever even heard of these conditions, now they are featured in every magazine you encounter. There is a huge market to treat both depression and anxiety, which usually go hand in hand and are the offspring of stress.
Pharmaceutical companies are cranking out different anti-depressants all of the time. These are said to be ‘better” than the other anti-depressants that they discovered a year prior. Thirty years ago, no one ever even heard the term “anti-depressant.” If you used that expression back then, people would think you were talking about something to do with your car.
Today it seems as if every single person you encounter is “on something” for stress, depression or anxiety. All of them can neatly be lumped into the same category and are caused by stress.
Stress is usually at the root of all of the above psychological disorders. It also affects us physically as well. Stress has been linked to every disease known to man, including heart disease and cancer. Clearly, it is not a good idea for people to be under stress. But, as human beings, we are going to experience stressful situations. There is no avoiding this fact. Therefore, in order to really be able to help cure ourselves from being “stressed out” we need to know how to do the following:
• Identify stressors that affect our daily lives;
• Eliminate the stressors of which we can free ourselves;
• Learn to deal with stressful situations in a healthy way
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July 10th, 2009 4:10 pm
Talk to him about possibly taking Paxil. I took Prozac and it never worked for me and I also had bad panic attacks. They changed me to Paxil and it helped alot with the panic attacks. If that don’t work, you should talk to him/her about giving you anxiety medication, i.e. Klonopin, Ativan, Xanax, Valium, something like that.
If you have a panic attack use a brown paper bag like a lunch bag and take deep breaths into the bag. I used to go around with a brown paper bag all the time.
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July 10th, 2009 4:12 pm
How long have you been on prozac? It takes at least 6 weeks for this drug to take FULL effects on you, personally I have been on it for a couple years now and once it kicked in, I loved it, helped big time. If its well over 6 weeks and its still not helping ask your doctor to switch your meds. I experience panic and anxiety attacks as well and I can tell you first hand, they suck. I take Atavan (Lorazepam) for fast onset when I feel I need it as well as the Prozac, that has helped as well, I have heard Xanax helps some, though I didnt care for it myself. The only thing you can do is keep trying and know you will get through it, the paper bag crap never helped me, or the breathing but they may be useful to you, if you feel it coming on try and get up and get away from whatever situation you are in even at work or school, it may help. Lastly talk to friends and family as much as possible really get it out there, people are more understanding then you think, it will get better, know that and good luck
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suffered from them for years
July 10th, 2009 4:14 pm
Medication would help,but i think you should couple that to therapy. Medication provides relief and calms you down in times of anxiety. But, you might want to start addressing a crucial part of your problem-your mental state. What you think,affects how you feel. There are different kinds of therapies you could consider. Talk to your doctor about the best one for you or use google yourself and look into what you feel would work for you.
Therapy to condition your mind to not delve into depression, medication to help you improve your physical state to overcome your depression.
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