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Anxiety Self Help Question

My life is ruined with anxiety and panic attacks. Is there any hope for me? Lisa in Australia

 

Anxiety Self Help Answer

by Doris Jeanette, Psy.D

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.


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.


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 maladaptive anxiety responses to certain situations. Use system desensitization on your own anytime, 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 system desensitization and flooding help 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 new kid on the block, 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 one study I recently read. Thinking keeps you in beta brain waves.

If you are in the midst of an anxiety attack or a panic attack right now you need to take immediate action to help yourself. Here is a simple and effective approach to get you started.

"Shut your mouth and breathe through your nose."

When you breathe like this, it balances your Oxygen intake so you stop hyperventilating.

Stopping your hyperventilating is extremely important. So take the time to take care of yourself now. Properly attending to yourself will grow corn.

Stop Your Anxiety Attack and Panic Attack Now.

The first lesson in the multimedia ecourse, "Overcome Anxiety Naturally" teaches you how to stop your anxiety attacks with a simple, sure method we used at the Behavior Therapy Unit. You can download the first lesson immediately to learn more about how to stop anxiety attacks. Click here for anxiety and panic attack help.

While it is important to be able to stop your anxiety attacks, it is also important to prevent them!!

I want a permanent and long lasting anxiety treatment which is natural and drug free.

If you agree and want to achieve relaxation and enjoy life, the first thing you need to do is get to the source of what makes you anxious. Ask yourself what is causing your out of control mental anxiety state in the first place.


Let me congratulate you on being aware of your anxiety, not everyone is. Many people live in denial.

If you deny your anxiety, there is no way you can help yourself. This means you are a step ahead of people who are denying their anxiety.

Everyone on the planet has some static in their nervous system some of the time. For example, take the Dali Lama who meditates 8 hours a day. Imagine the Dali Lama at your dinner table during the holidays.

I know he would get anxious if he spent a few days surrounded by your family dynamics! If you did not let him meditate for 8 hours, his anxiety would certainly increase.

Everyone has anxiety and everyone needs to learn to relax more. Drugs do not get rid of anxiety or panic so learn to reduce anxiety naturally.

My body approach moves beyond verbal therapy, talk therapy, and psychotherapy. None of these talk methods touch the chaos in the lining of your stomach or your conditioned responses.

To succeed, you need to live in your body and focus on the source of your anxiety.


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 one.

Your anxiety panic energy flies all over the place scaring you and everyone else to death. This is why your anxiety disorder, GAD or social anxiety problem is 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, because lightning does not fly all over the place.

Nature immediately grounds lightning. The real world is not out of control. Therefore you do not want to be out of control. You need to bring yourself back into a safe 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 grounded, immediately.

Do not let your out of control energy continue to sacred you or anyone else.

Out of control energy is dangerous. When you are not aware of the ground you are walking on, you are going to experience panic and anxiety.

If you are in a train headed over the cliffs you know you are in real danger. It is up to you to slow down your train and get back on the tracks.

Do not spend another day or night in an out of control anxious mental state. Learn safe, effective anxiety natural self help body solutions.

Learn to keep your train on the tracks and stop your irrational thoughts from ruining your life.

Join Dr. Jeanette's anxiety class, relaxation class in Center City Philadelphia or take her affordable, multicolored, anxiety e course online, Overcoming Anxiety Naturally.

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