When it comes to anxiety and its affect on your health there is more assumption and myth than you could imagine. Some of these myths are based in fact, but of course they're not entirely accurate. And, although there is a connection between anxiety and blood pressure, that connection has been overblown somewhat. See, anxiety can increase your blood pressure but it doesn't do so over long periods of time. In other words, when you feel stressed and anxious your blood pressure does go up as your bloodstream is injected with stress
Will Your Anxiety Ever Get Better?
Will your anxiety ever get better? This is the million dollar question for many folks that struggle with anxiety. The answer to this question is yes but there is a caveat. The reason I say yes is because in my own experience I have been through terrible periods of intense anxiety and fear only to come out "normal" for a time. The caveat lies in our inability or more likely unwillingness to face our fears and challenge them squarely. How soon and to what degree you improve will depend on many factors. Primarily your attitude toward anxiety
Anxiety And Vice
"throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pain" - Democritus The word vice is rather strong when you think about it. It is defined as "a moral depravity or corruption". In my view and for our purposes a vice is something less and is generally something we should avoid or at least not over do. Anxiety sufferers have to deal with so much it's no wonder that many of us turn to vice for relief and why vice becomes a coping tool. We end up doing things that we ought not do or definitely over do because we are
Anxiety And Weight Gain
Does Anxiety make you fat? Or a better question might be does the stress related with having chronic anxiety make one gain weight? Well like most things there are at least two schools of thought on the issue and I agree with both. When researching anything I always suggest looking for various viewpoints. If you go in looking for an answer chances are you'll find something to reinforce what you thought was the right answer. Well after looking for two viewpoints on this issue I found them; so let's review them a little. On the one hand you
A Bit Of Motivation
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do" - Epictetus Sometimes anxiety becomes more then just kind of a problem. It can in fact turn into an all consuming negative force that erodes your ability to hope. But when things get hard what we have to do is take a moment to realize how much we can affect ourselves. Despite the hardships that anxiety can create you can feel better. No matter what stage of fear, pain or worry you're in you will get back to normal. It is helpul to visualize what you would like to
The Heart Disease – Anxiety Disorder Connection
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. Researchers believe that there is
The Anxiety Before The Anxiety Disorder
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? Looking back on my own
Reluctant Explorer: Anxiety And The Fear Of Travel
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. Now let me make clear that I would love to see the Pyramids at Giza, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Great Wall of China, so on and so forth. I would love to see these places in living color and not just in a book or film. However, like many people with anxiety, I have a fear of
Anxiety High Wire Act
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. The high wire reminds me a lot of what its like to have an anxiety disorder. Feeling off balance, woozy, lightheaded, faint are all sensations I'm sure a performer might feel while hoisted 50 feet
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