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Anxiety Help Question

"My life is ruined with anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Is there any hope for me? I have tightness in the chest with anxiety and cannot breathe. Drugs do not help." Lisa in Australia

 

 Anxiety Help Answer

First, let me congratulate you on being aware of your anxiety. Most people live in denial. They do not even know they are anxious!

Since you know you experience anxiety, such as tightness in the chest, you are a big step ahead of people who don't know they are anxious. Physical symptoms of anxiety and stress can be scary.

Panic attacks and anxiety attacks occur when you get caught up in your irrational, out of control thoughts. Anxiety and panic attacks are similar, with panic being more high pitched than anxiety.

Here are some Anxiety Attack Symptoms:

1.  Tightness in the chest
2.  Upset guts, flipping stomach
3.  Hyperventilating
4.  Cannot catch breath
5.  Thinking something terrible is going to happen
6.  Racing thoughts of disaster


In the old days --that is what I call my post doctoral training at the Behavior Therapy Unit at Temple Medical School in the 1970's with Joe Wolpe, MD, Father of Behavior Therapy-- we used systematic desensitization to treat anxiety.

Anxiety is a maladaptive conditioned response. Whereas, fear is a healthy response to real danger.


With systematic desensitization we taught people to relax their body and then imagine the things they were afraid of in small steps until they were no longer afraid. Flooding was another technique. We exposed people to the anxiety stimuli all at once until their anxiety diminished.


Both approaches are effective in helping you unlearn anxiety. Use desensitization on your own any time, it is safe. But be careful with flooding, you can make your anxiety worse if you avoid the stimuli before your body returns to relaxation.

Both systematic desensitization and flooding reduce surface phobias, stress anxiety and GAD symptoms which are already in your conscious mind.

However, these techniques do not deal with the source, the root cause of what makes you anxious in the first place. Neither does the most popular current treatment for anxiety, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, which teaches you to think positive thoughts.

Having to think about thinking is probably the reason Cognitive Behavior Therapy has a 80% recidivism rate according to the last study I read. Thinking keeps you in stuck in beta brain waves.

As a holistic psychologist I teach people natural, empowering ways to overcome anxiety. To remove anxiety from your body, you need to get to the source of your anxiety problem so you can relax and enjoy life!

If you are in the midst of an anxiety attack or a panic attack right now you need to take action to help yourself. The first thing you need to do is stop hyperventilating.

Check out the Overcoming Anxiety Naturally ecourse. The first lesson teaches you how to stop your anxiety attacks with a simple, sure method used at the Behavior Therapy Unit. You can download the first lesson immediately to learn how to stop hyperventilating. Click here to learn more about natural ways to help anxiety.

To stop an anxiety attack you need a more powerful treatment than psychotherapy. Talk therapy does not touch the chaos in the lining of your stomach or the conditioned responses in your muscles.

You learned to be anxious and you can unlearn your anxiety.

To succeed, you need to learn how to live in your body so you can keep your anxious energy grounded.


Anxiety is like lightning. In nature lighting is immediately grounded.  In humans, your anxiety is not grounded. You let your out of control thoughts go on and on.

Your anxiety energy flies all over the place scaring you and everyone else. This is why your anxiety disorder, GAD or social anxiety problem becomes a serious mental health problem, emotional health problem and physical health problem.

If lightning in nature really did fly all over the place, the real world would be chaotic and it would be very, very scary. But reality is not chaotic and scary.  No, it is not. Lightning does not fly all over the place.

Nature immediately grounds lightning. The real world is not out of control. When you are anxious you need to bring yourself back into a safe, natural, real state as soon as possible.

Your energy needs to be literally plugged into the ground for you to be safe. Just like the electricity in your wall, you need to get your anxiety grounded, immediately.

Out of control energy is dangerous. You are in a train headed over the cliffs. You need to slow down your train and get back on the tracks.

You can learn to keep your train on the tracks and stop your irrational thoughts from ruining your life.

How Can You Overcome Anxiety Naturally?

Learn what the source of your anxiety is and work at the source. Learn how to relax your body, calm your nerves, stop anxiety attacks, live in your body and keep your energy grounded.

Then you will reduce your anxiety when it occurs and face your real fears as you expand your world bigger and bigger each day.

Options to Help you Reduce Your Anxiety and Relax:

1.  Overcoming Anxiety Naturally online course. Take the affordable Overcoming Anxiety Naturally e-course. This is a complete, basic anxiety course which teaches you how to stop anxiety attacks, relax your body and calm your nerves. All the learning information, body awareness, emotional awareness and mind body tools you need to reduce your anxiety is included in the: "Overcoming Anxiety Naturally, anxiety e-course."

2.  Anxiety Class in person in Philadelphia. Take Dr. Jeanette's Overcoming Anxiety Naturally in person class in Center City, Philadelphia. Click here for more information.

3.  Anxiety Coaching. Let Dr. Jeanette coach you into relaxation, self confidence and physical security. Write her or Call 215-732-6197. 

Copyright, 2000, revised 2007, Doris Jeanette. All rights reserved.

"Just because everyone else is anxious does not mean you have to be anxious." Doris Jeanette

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