As an anxiety sufferer you may spend a lot of time concerned about your immediate health. You may spend a great deal of time wondering what exactly is going to kill you since your convinced your about to die.

But although you worry generally you still have that small rational thought pattern that somehow reassures you that you are in fact healthy. So there you are going back and forth about the connection between your nerves and your health. Well it turns out all that worry was not baseless brain babble.

For many of us our anxiety disorders feel like they sprang up out of the blue as it were. But were there any signs that one was developing a long lasting and sometimes torturous sense of apprehension and negative physical feeling? Or was it always there and we now simply see things different?

Although children can have anxiety disorders it seems that adults are the ones that exhibit physical and mental exacerbation with the condition. Do kids have a better handle on this or is it a case of ignorance being bliss?

Traveling is high up on most people’s to do list. It’s almost a cliche to hear someone say something like “I’d like to X, Y, Z and travel someday”. And it’s obvious why – who wouldn’t want to go see the world? Well you can count me as one of the few that doesn’t.

So this marks the 100th time that I’ve tried to tell someone something about anxiety. It’s been nearly six months since I started writing this blog and since that time it has been growing steadily.

I wanted to take a moment to thank all my readers. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and making what I do worth while. I work hard to bring everyone information I think is worth knowing and try to present it in a somewhat amusing way.

At one point or another we have all seen the high wire act during a circus performance or on a  t.v. show. The performer steps out onto the tightly stretched rope and slowly puts one foot in front of the other doing all they can to avoid a nasty spill. We all look at the performer and think “yea you’re gonna fall” but of course they usually don’t.

One of the most unfortunate symptoms of an anxiety disorder is insomnia and to those that deal with it bless you all. Not being able to sleep is horrible but what if you have the opposite problem? Leave it to anxiety to be confused about how to make your life harder. It is true however that anxiety can put you in a near slumber and never ending state of sluggishness.

There are a lot of bad things associated with having an anxiety disorder but luckily for us one of them is not feeling panicked 24 hours a day. Don’t get me wrong, there are times when you can feel continuous anxiety for a day, weeks or even months but by and large you do get something of a break from time to time.

Feeling alone in a room full of people really sucks. There is just no poetic way of summing up the feeling of loneliness that an anxiety disorder can produce in a person. I have literally been in a room with hundreds of people and have felt absolutely no connection to either them or the fun they seem to be having.

Is this really surprising though? As an anxious “what ifer” many of our thoughts are aimed inward and can be negative and also repeat incessantly.

One of the things I always tout on this blog is making sure that people use multiple means of coping with their anxiety. This is by far the best way of ensuring that your anxiety disorder can be managed effectively. Normally people think of shrinks, drugs, or herbs as good remedies for an anxiety disorder and in fact these all have their merits. But there are other lesser talked about forms of therapy that are just as good.

When most people think of anxiety disorders they picture people having panic attacks, nervousness, and extreme shyness. But few think of anxiety disorders when they think of greasy burgers.

Fifty-four year old Don Gorske of Fond du Lac Wisconsin (68 miles north of Milwaukee) says he has eaten 23,000 Big Macs since 1972 because of his OCD. Gorske has said that “he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald’s track it’s numbers”