Sometimes the irritability that is brought on by your anxiety disorder can tip you into a full rage. Whether it's general anxiety disorder, PTSD, social phobia, etc sometimes your anger makes you want to Hulk out. Case in point, today my boss pulls me aside and tells me something negative. Something like whaw, whaw, blah blah, negative, negative. By the end of his sermon of put down I essentially lost it (in my mind of course) for a few minutes and I had to focus to maintain the appearance of full tranquility. This is precisely why if your
Insomnia and Anxiety Disorders
If you have an anxiety disorder chances are that you have trouble sleeping sometimes or maybe all the time. This is because if you have insomnia you are predisposed to developing anxiety and depression and vice versa. As we all know insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by your inability to fall asleep and or stay asleep. Learning to cope with insomnia is important for your long term health and does not necessarily require that you pop pills to fall into a soporific sleep state. Whether you have an anxiety disorder or not all people
Justin Timberlake Admits to Having OCD
Stuff.co.nz reports that international pop star Justin Timberlake suffers from OCD. This is according to an interview that Timberlake gave to the website collider.com. In the interview Timberlake said he has a "complicated" mix of OCD and attention deficit disorder. Like the British soccer star David Beckham, Timberlake states that he has to make sure that things are lined up perfect and also makes sure that the fridge is stocked only with certain foods. Timberlake is not alone as there is a laundry list of well known celebs that struggle
How To Control Your Anxiety
In boxing there is a saying that says all boxers have a plan until they get hit. I love that saying because it illustrates wonderfully my battles with anxiety symptoms. When I start feeling better I always make a plan about what I will do to control my anxiety, but as soon as my anxiety symptoms hit my plan would always fall apart as if Mike Tyson himself punched me square on the nose. That continued until I found a new plan. To control your anxiety you have to have a plan, sort of. What I mean by plan is a way to sort out an actual set of
Anxiety Quick Note: Anxiety and Heat
When it gets hot your temperature may not be the only thing that goes up. It has been noted by many anxiety sufferers that when it gets hot their anxiety symptoms spike. Just the other day I was at an amusement park with my family and the temp outside was 93 degrees (about 34 degrees Celsius) and my anxiety symptoms began to emerge almost immediately after we entered the park. I felt dizzy, my heart rate was up, I was tired, weak and extremely anxious. It was hard to cope because no matter where I moved to I could do nothing to escape the
The Anxiety Guru Show: Anxiety and Your Mind Ep 4
"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow" - Swedish Proverb The Anxiety Guru Show: Episode 4 Show Notes 1. A common symptom of anxiety disorder and PTSD is having disturbing thoughts. a. It includes thoughts of harming yourself or others. b. It includes dreaming of or envisioning violent or sexual themes in thought and dream. c. Feeling of going crazy. d. Fear that your going to die. e. Racing thoughts. f. All very frightening but none of your thoughts will ever hurt you. 2. Disturbing thoughts are a result of a tired
Hot and Bothered: Anxiety and Irritability
Lately the temperature has been increasing and my temper has been headed in the same direction. Whether it's an anxiety disorder or PTSD, irritability is a very common symptom of people under stress for long periods of time. Sometimes this irritation is such a part of how you feel that everything bugs the hell out of you. It could be your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse or even your dog that just drives you up the wall. Clearly all people become irritated from time to time, but irritability related to anxiety disorder can be intense. I have
Headbanger: Anxiety and Headaches
One of the the symptoms that you are bound to develop if you have an anxiety disorder are headaches. The headaches themselves are as varied as all the other symptoms. In other words, you can have different types of headaches of varying severity and frequency. The most common is called a tension headache. This kind of headache typically makes you feel like you have a metal band around your head. The pain is mild to moderate and it bugs you because it feels like something is touching your head from the outside. These can occur frequently and
Is OCD Funny?
Do you think that OCD is funny? Well as many of you know there is a television program called Monk and they think it's hilarious. When I say they I don't just mean the producers, but people all over the country. The show is funny, but I wonder what OCD sufferers really think? According to an article on healthplace.com the executive director of the Obsessive-Complusive Foundation (she has OCD) thinks the show is a riot. If you have OCD do you think that the show is funny? Should mental illness be made fun of? My short answer is yea. Don't