Anxiety Therapy- Panic Attacks, symptoms, treatments

I’m scared to take drugs for my anxiety problem as my doctor recommends. Has anyone found anxiety relief without drugs such as a herbal remedy or vitamin perhaps? thank you.

Dear Mark: Yes I have. I had the same problem with taking prescription drugs for my own anxiety. I now use a natural supplement blend called Panicyl that works well for me. I also have read a couple of books by Claire Weeks about anxiety that really helped me understand why i suffer from this crap./ I hope this helps.

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I’m just curious because I’ve had a lot of panic and anxiety attacks and just noticed that my finger nails have an off-white line across them and a bit of a dark purple color just under that. So is this caused by panic/ anxiety attacks or is it something more serious than that?

Discoloration of the fingernails is usually caused by a variety microorganisms. However, it can also be the panic attacks, they pose many risks to the body’s immune system. Anyway, you should see a doctor and get examined. If you want to treat the panic attacks you can try this site for a natural method: http://tinyurl.com/ylkuwhx/panic

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Not having any Anxiety attacks or anxiety about anything. Being so numb to everything around you. I don’t know if it’s God giving me the the gift of calmness during hard times, or if it is the numbness of depression. Either way, it scares me that i am not upset, sad or mad about current happenings.

There is a lot out there - one person cannot solve it all.
We can all just chip away.

Worry does not solve anything. Action does.

Be good. Do good. Find God.
You will not be depressed.

When I was 12 my daddy died and I had to hunt and fish for my family to eat (I was the oldest); instead of begrudging my fate - I actually started enjoying it. I love blasting guns!

You should be accepting of current events and trying to do the best you can. Even giving food through FeedingAmerica.org or similar group.

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I have severe anxiety and I’ve been having anxiety attacks for months. I can’t take prescription pills because I’m an air traffic controller and I’ve been trying herbs (valerian, ignatia, passion flower) but nothing seems to work. And I ALWAYS have anxiety attacks when I have to speak to a group and next week and have to give a short presentation to everyone in my work and I’m petrified of having an anxiety attack. Please help me.

just laugh at whatever the task is..
thats wud be the first step.. just have a laugh..
step back fromt he issue.. and see it as a minor thing u just have to do…
make a date with a friend.. or plan something right after.. so u have something to look forward to..
the main thing here is…
no matter what u do.. u will feel anxiety leading up to the event of speaking right?
well its just like walking in late to class..
u know ur late.. ur heart is racing.. u have to get there.. but everyone will be sitting down..
the best thing to do in both these situations.. is to just forget about it..
i mean.. having anxiety and going crazy over it.. or not going crazy isnt going to make things better.
the outcome of what u have to do.. will be there anyway… so instead of having anxiety..
just have neutrality.. brush it off..
dont think about it. forget it.. what will happen will happen. one way or the other..
its the pre-thought that fucks everybody up. so the best thing to do is act like u dont care.
and it will work out trust me.

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I asked another question here on yahoo about how to calm down from anxiety attacks and they told me to first of all make sure that they are actually anxiety attacks. Like they said my body could be trying to survive from low blood sugar levels or something..

You are having an anxiety attack when you heart starts beating really fast and you get sweaty, have a hard time getting your breath, feel nauseous, and have chest pains.

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What does it mean when you get anxiety attacks, especially at the movies?

too much stress I get them when I worry to much you just need to relax

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Thankyou!

I’m not sure if the first answerer has had previous bad experience with cognitive therapy or if s/he just doesn’t understand it but cognitive therapy is not a ’short term’ solution and can in fact can be used as a tool by people with anxiety disorders over their entire lives. Cognitive therapy is a good alternative to pharmaceutical interventions, which often are only short term solutions and often do not tackle the roots of anxiety, only the physiological results of it.

Cognitive therapy is beneficial to people who suffer from anxiety because it helps them to recognise the triggers and causes behind their anxiety and to work towards different ways of viewing ‘anxiety-provoking’ situations. People can therefore take an active role in tackling their anxiety. Therapy sessions would likely involve investigating the different situations that provoke anxiety including examining exactly what features of a situation the person feels anxious about and what negative occurrence they feel is likely to result from these features. Next the therapist may encourage the person to explore the rationale behind these fears and anxieties in a logical, rational manner. The sessions will also investigate other alternative outcomes (more positive outcomes) for situations that are upsetting to the person and the person will be encouraged to explore why they feel the negative occurrences are more likely to occur than the positive outcomes. The end point is that the person learns to focus on the more positive, likely, rational and logic outcome to a given situation, as opposed to the "worst case scenario", which they tend to focus on and become anxious about.

In short, with anxiety disorder, cognitive therapy helps people to alter the way they process a given situation in order to remove the irrational fears and anxieties that they attach to it. Whilst no treatment will ever work 100% successfully with everyone who receives it, cognitive therapies have been shown to be very successful in treating anxiety disorders and mild to moderate depression. However, they do involve effort and patience from the people receiving the therapy in order to have a chance of being effective.

Hope this helps!

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I had an anxiety attack last week, and since then, it feels like I’ve been out of touch with reality and it’s almost as if I have to reassure myself I am in reality.

Hey, I understand how you feel…

The uncomfortable symptoms like sweaty palms, "jelly" legs, extreme alertness, "impending doom" feeling and the fight-or-flight response.
I’ve been there. I’m an ex-victim. Sometimes the deep breathing or distraction techniques doesn’t work - a full-blown panic or anxiety attack happens later.
Sometimes you experience panic attack out of the blue and such.

Do NOT buy Panic Away, Linden Method, EasyCalm or the Panic Puzzle. They do NOT work - I’ve tried them and their solutions are similar - it DOESN’T WORK.
Medications do NOT work - I was under many antidepressants (Prozac, Lexapro, Paxil and Zoloft) and anti-anxiety medications (Ativan, Klonopin, and Xanax) but my condition was the same - no improvement at all.

The only program that really work is The Panic Attack Solution. It’s found by an ex-victim. You can check out his old blog in his official website to read up some useful tips.
But the package is the best - it teaches 17 powerful techniques and the real solution to panic attacks. I’ve bought it and it really helped me - it’s the BEST anti-anxiety package or book I’ve read.
His theory really makes sense and it works effectively!

You will learn why your panic attacks can happen without warning sometimes; why having stimulant causes panic attacks; and many-many other useful tips!

Check out his official website:
http://www.ThePanicAttackSolution.com

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I was just on my laptop playing sims for about 2 hours, and got off and expirenced alot of anxiety symptoms. I naturally have anxiety, and i’m on prozac, but it just worries me. my muscles were kind of tremoring and i felt unreal…is this normal.

A new scientific study has linked video games to anxiety epidemics in young people.
According to the report, video games cause a ‘fight or flight’ reaction that triggers an adrenaline surge and the danger is that this chemical remains in the body since no physical action follows.Pushing anxiety to such a level without physical action can cause adrenaline overload. The rise in anxiety disorders is frightening.

This follows a scientific study at the Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in Taiwan that showed that obsessive gamers exhibited the same neurological effects as drug addicts.

Take care as always!

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I don’t know what to do when my partner starts to have anxiety attacks. Just like him I feel helpless and I get angry. When he says he’s scared, feeling like his heart is fluttering I don’t know what to say or do except hold him and say it’s going to be ok. Sometimes it gets irritating and I want to leave. How do I deal with his sudden changes in behavior?

Hi Brian! You sound like a great friend in that you are wanting to respond to your partner in the best manner possible to help.

I struggled with anxiety for years & my husband stood by as a good support to me. Here are a few tips that really helped me:

1. Know that the anxiety attacks are not in your partners control
2. Anxiety attacks are generally IRRATIONAL fears
3. Talk your partner through them
4. Do not belittle your partner during or after the attack

I used to really struggle with going to the doctor & having blood work done. So while we were expecting our now 8-year-old son, I would drive to the doctor, with my husband as the passenger. (Usually he would drive while I was the passenger.) Now this doesn’t seem like anything big, however… we discovered that if I drove to the doctor, I had to concentrate on driving rather than sitting as an idle passenger ruminating on how I was going to have to have blood work done & working myself into a frenzy.

Not sure when anxiety attacks enter in, but have your partner work his way through them if at all possible– continue in his routine.

Hope this makes sense & hope it helps!

Best of Luck!
Christine

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