Do I Have Anxiety – How I Finally Learned to Control My Anxiety Naturally

Posted by on May 28, 2011 No comments

If you’ve ever asked yourself the question, “do I have anxiety?” then you should read this blog. This post is a quick recap of how I learned that my obsessive worrying was not in fact a personality flaw, but a medical disorder. And how I finally learned to reduce my anxiety naturally and for good.

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So my story. When I was a kid I was pretty nervous to try new things. When my friends got excited about going skiing or learning to drive, I just saw ways I could get injured. I thought it was my personality.

As a young adult, I spent a fair amount of time worrying about things, not sleeping at night. I would lay awake rerunning a movie loop in my head of potential scenarios that had never even happened. I would get a thought stuck in my head and it was like a needle getting stuck in a groove on a record – there was no moving forward.

In a lot of ways I was not participating in all that life had to offer. I avoided a lot of activities that could have been fun based on the fact that I was afraid to drive on a particular road, I didn’t know what to expect when I got there…any excuse. I had lived my whole life with an underlying level of anxiety and was not even aware that it was not normal.

My family complained I was a “worry wart” and on the sad occasions when I experienced a full on panic attack I was accused of just being hysterical. Difficult. High maintenance. Having a flawed personality.

It wasn’t until my daughter started exhibiting the same symptoms at a very young age that I finally got motivated to seek medical help for my problems.

What followed were some frustrating and expensive years that took me through the following:

  • talk therapy and behavior modification therapy
  • pyscho therapy
  • various anti depressants (they would fix one problem and cause another)
  • anti-anxiety drugs such as xanax (warning…those side effects really can happen! The day I looked out of a hotel window and saw violent images of my dead body of the pavement 10 stories below I threw them in the trash)
  • meditation, tai chi and yoga
  • neuro lingusitic reframing
  • and desperate remedies such as cold showers only(some website swore by it!)

While meditation and tai chi are still part of my daily life and have played a huge part in me staying overall calm and grounded

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What I hope you can learn from my story.

Today my life is more full and rewarding than I ever dared imagine. It wasn’t until I learned to control my anxiety that I realized the extent to which it had over shadowed my life and my choices.

Please look carefully at the list of anxiety symptoms on this site. You may just be stressed by everyday life, or it may be anxiety. Anxiety is a real condition than can be treated. Please don’t suffer needlessly!

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Symptoms of Anxiety

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Generalized anxiety cannot be diagnosed based on any one symptom. Rather there are a spectrum of symptoms of anxiety some of which can be attributed to other medical issues. However, as a general rule, the more of the symptoms you experience on an on-going basis, the more likely it is that you suffer from something other than just every day stress.

On going symptoms of anxiety:

  • Stomach issues. This can be anything from bloating and loose bowel movements to indigestion and general “nervous” or acid stomach.
  • General irritability. Sudden burst of anger, irritation or generally being argumentative or irrational with others.
  • Sleep disturbance. Either having a hard time falling asleep, or suddenly waking up and being unable to get back to sleep for hours worrying, or playing out scenarios in your head that may never happen.
  • Persistent or obsessive thoughts. Fixating on seemingly (to others at least) unimportant details.
  • A general sense of foreboding. The feeling that something bad is going to happen to you, your loved ones or globally.
  • Reluctance to participate in activities or events that are unknown to you. Wanting to stick very rigidly to an established and comfortable routine.
  • Inability to concentrate or focus in general.

Anxiety Attack Symptoms

An actual panic attack usually last no longer than 10 minutes. Bear in mind 10 minutes is a really long time when it’s happening to you and if you feel like you are dying. But as I and my daughter have personally been told time and time again by doctors and psychiatrists “no one ever died of  panic attack”. (Wait..what if they have one when they’re driving or operating heavy machinery? Sorry. Anxiety talking there.)

Back to the symptoms:

  • Shortness of breath or hyperventilating
  • Pressure on the chest
  • Sweating
  • Being Irrational, aggressive towards others
  • Repeating certain phrases or movements involuntarily
  • Being unable to concentrate or focus on a task
  • Feeling like you are “going crazy”
  • Hysteria or sobbing
  • Feeling like you are observing the incident from the outside or that the whole incident is “unreal”
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The Difference Between Stress And Anxiety

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Everyday life is full of stress. Working, commuting, dealing demanding bosses, spouses and children (and parents !) – all of these can take a toll. Add to these areas financial stress that most of us are struggling  with due to the current economic situation and the fact that every time you watch the news, the news seems to get worse. The current media culture really only seems to send two messages these days: buy stuff and be afraid. Is it any wonder we are stressed?

Everyone has a different tolerance for stress. Some people (you know, the annoying “Type A’s”) even claim to thrive on it. But stress is different from anxiety. Stress is “normal” when it accompanies certain situations: life transitions (births, deaths, marriages, divorces) or circumstance transitions (job changes, school change, moving etc). Like I said, life is stressful. Even less dramatic events such as work deadlines, or tests can cause short term stress.

Stress differs from anxiety in two major ways:

1.  Stress usually dissipates once the particular “stressful” event is over (until the next “stressful” event, that is.) As previously mentioned, everyone has a different tolerance for stress and it is in fact a “healthy” response to many life situations

2.  People can articulate what in particular they are stressed about

Anxiety is different. People who suffer from generalized anxiety will tell you they cannot always or even often tell you what they are anxious about. Generalized anxiety manifests more as a feeling of general foreboding and constant worry and unease. And while a panic response is appropriate in certain extremely stressful situations (biologically are chemistry is still hard wired for a “fight or flight” response), people suffering from anxiety usually have panic or anxiety attacks with no apparent triggers.

Note: I am talking about generalized anxiety, not phobias. Obviously people who suffer from phobias can tell you exactly what they are afraid of be it flying, leaving the house, spiders, germs, eating food that isn’t white (trust me, I’ve been there) or whatever.

So while being stressed every once in a while, even of you handle it poorly, is a part of life you have to deal with, suffering from generalized anxiety and or panic attacks is not just a normal part of life.

Generalized anxiety is a medical and mental condition about which there is much research and for which there many treatments available to help you improve the quality of your life and your relationships.

Please don’t suffer needlessly! Make your next anxiety attack your last!

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Welcome to Do I Have Anxiety.org

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Welcome to my blog DoIHaveAnxiety.org. In this blog you will find general information regarding the symptoms of anxiety and panic disorders. The information will help you if you are wondering of you are suffering from every day stress or something more persistent and serious.

While I am certainly not a medical professional, I have suffered from anxiety my whole life, and have been so happy in recent years to have finally got my anxiety properly under control.

In this blog I share information about the best solutions that have worked for me. But I stress, please DO NOT just rely on Dr. Internet. While the internet is an amazing resource of excellent information that can change your life, it is NOT interactive. You need to interact with a real medical professional to be properly diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and to rule out other serious medical conditions that can manifest with similar symptoms.

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Surf responsibly: Please do not rely on the information that you find on this, or any other website, no matter how well established, to diagnose yourself.

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Vitamins and Anxiety – Can Vitamins Really Help Reduce Your Anxiety?

Posted by on May 27, 2011 No comments

When you suffer from anxiety you are willing to try almost anything to get back control of your life. I know, because I have been there. So when I saw repeated ads for vitamins and anxiety, ads claiming that a magic formula of vitamins and minerals could be the magic cure to anxiety issues, I decided to explore further.

Here’s what I found. Of course, a healthy diet, exercise and sleep routine are all important components in keeping your anxiety symptoms in check overall. But popping a vitamin when you are having a panic attack is certainly not going to have any benefits.

Now, that’s not to say that you shouldn’t be making sure that you get enough of the following vitamins and minerals in your diet. The reason is that they all play a part in the production and control of serotonin. You may know that serotonin is a hormone present in your digestive tract and brain that regulates the brain function of pleasure, moods and “happiness”. So it would seem reasonable to assume that any vitamin that would improve the function of the nervous system and the neurotransmitters (they act like little messengers from the body to the brain) in general could help with your anxiety symptoms.

Vitamin B  The B vitamins in general are related to a healthy nervous system. Vitamin Bs include the following names :riboflavin, folic acid, niacin, thiamine and cobalamin. These vitamins are also important for the overall production neurotransmitters.

Vitamin C  Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant. As well as being good o your skin it has an important role in maintaining the immune system functioning well.

Magnesium and calcium  These can both be helpful as they contribute to the body’s ability to properly relax muscles. Tension is general is the enemy of  relaxed, anxiety free life style.

Most people in the western world actually get enough of these vitamins and minerals in their daily diet if they eat balanced, relatively healthy meals. But a multi-vitamin every morning is not going to do you any harm. But PLEASE do not believe the snake oil sales pitches that promise you that expensive vitamins will cure you of your anxiety naturally.

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