Monthly Archives: January 2014

panic-help-zoneFew truly understand what it is like to suffer with GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) and though our closest friends and family can listen, and try to support us, they don’t feel the pressure, they don’t feel as though they can’t breathe, or like their heart has taken off like a hummingbird.

Luckily, this is not something that is rare, and thanks to brilliant minds of the time, more awareness has led to new methods in dealing with this. There are places online you can read Panic Away reviews, a program developed by a long time anxiety sufferer Barry MacDonagh.

Like many of us, he did not like the more traditional approaches, where we’re simply given a bandage to cover a wound that just refuses to close. Pills aren’t a great solution, neither is hypnosis or therapy, they help treat symptoms but they do little to help the cause. Our causes can be legion, because we have all lived different lives. No one person can truly understand what we have been through and what has made us who we are today except ourselves. Due to this, nobody is more qualified to help us than we are on our own. We know our minds, but we may not recognize the potential locked away up there.

The human mind is still misunderstood, the parts we do know about still sound like science fiction in the ways they work, and we don’t yet have answers for why we still only use a small percentage of our entire brains either. The saying “mind over matter” has caused many to roll their eyes in frustration, thinking that there’s no way that the brain has that much power, to physically manifest things of your own desires. Perhaps you need to see the proof.

Reading the reviews, forum posts and all the people who have been completely changed simply by learning how to handle their own anxiety and beat it away for good is life affirming, and inspiring. There’s nothing that speaks for itself better than seeing results for yourself, applying the wisdom of the author and the others who have been helped and watching how your perceptions will change.
You don’t have to lose friendships, opportunities, jobs, or relationships because of anxiety anymore, you can have a freedom you may only remember having had as a child. Continue reading

Young business woman panicIf you are someone that experiences panic attacks then it is likely that you will be categorized by a medical practitioner as having a mental health condition.
As panic attacks are alarming most people when experiencing a panic attacks feel they have a disorder so they will go and seek medical advice and a doctor is
likely to prescribe medication such as blood pressure medication or antidepressants. Other than medical treatment there are other ways of treating panic attacks
and the anxiety that accompanies it. The Charles Linden program follows a non-medical approach to treating panic attacks and has shown success with the people
that have followed this method. The Linden Method program is about being able to deal with anxiety and panic attacks, the program has been proven to very successful
and this is backed up by the overwhelming amount of positive linden method reviews that can be found online. The concept is that the brain can be retrained to rethink the feelings of fear and anxiety so that they are re thought and resolved.

There are other methods used for dealing with panic attacks, such as cognitive behavior treatment which is grouped within behavioral therapy.
The aim of these treatments is to relieve symptoms of anxiety and to practice techniques that are seen in the treatment of anxiety disorders and specific types
of phobias. Sometimes help can be found from self-help sources such as information on the internet; as you may not always want to or feel a need to see a therapist
because you are embarrassed about discussing your particular fears or phobias. Although many of us will need to seek therapeutic help as the problems that we have
are appear too complex that you or I are unable to ‘help themselves’.

You may have had anxiety and fears and have suffered for years without telling anyone about it. Your feelings about anxiety is that it is something that
still presents itself with a mental health sticker and you do not want people to know about it as you feel ashamed or guilty to have to let someone know about
your anxious feelings.

Sometimes your anxiety escalates and worsens and then this can result in having a panic attack. Panic attacks may not be linked with anxiety at first as you may
think that you are suffering from an illness perhaps a heart attack or you might think that you are having a stroke. This is understandable as the symptoms of a
panic attack are physical and certainly can mimic those of heart problems. Once you have had one panic attack there is a high chance that you may experience
another and this might encourage you to avoid the situations that you feel has caused your panic attack. Panic attacks are distressing because they consist of a
number of unpleasant physical symptoms and catastrophic thoughts in your mind. Panic attacks can become more and more disabling because as a rule there is no
warning and they occur randomly and out of the blue. Continue reading