I got an interesting email today and I want to share part of it with you. It was written by a friend of mine describing his difficulty finding a descent doctor to help him with both a physical illness and the related anxiety that has decided to tag along. It went a little something like this: "Doctors won't even bother with things like diet, herbs, exercise or spiritual type stuff. They just want to give you the latest antidepressant and boot you out of the office. It was funny because after two hours [of seeing an alternative doctor] I
Why Alcohol Causes Anxiety: Part 2
All right, all right... I know this post might only appeal to the drinkers among you, but I just had to do a podcast on this topic. Today, I want to do more than just answer the question: Why does alcohol cause anxiety? I want to get into details, motives, and provide you with some information that I hope will help you to avoid the panic and worry associated with alcohol related anxiety. The deal is, I wrote about this topic a long time ago and it has become the most popular article on Anxiety Guru Dot Net, so elaborating on the
Don’t Wait Anymore
I have some good news and I have some bad news. Let me tell you what happened. Yesterday I burst through my front door, put away all the random things I carry during the day, washed up and served myself a little plate of pasta. I grabbed my plate and walked over to my computer to check some emails, check a few websites I frequent, the usual. I just finished slurping up the last of my pasta when the phone rang. It turned out to be my wife, who I chatted with for a few minutes when I noticed that one of my sisters was calling on the
10 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships
Today, I get personal. But it's not because I'm looking for undue attention, it's because I thought it was the best way to describe how anxiety can come between you and the people you love. I also wanted to show you how you can overcome this phenomenon. At the height of my anxiety my wife and had problems, to say the least. I often had my head in the clouds and did nothing but complain about my anxiety. Eventually my wife and I ended up in a cold war of sorts. Unable to come together fully, but still had to try and find ways to deal
The Power of Perseverance
Right now you're enduring a lot. You're trying to live your life while you also navigate the difficulties of anxiety. Today, I want to share with you how you can do that better, so you can begin your journey toward recovery. Now, I know that sometimes you feel like you're hanging on by the thinnest of threads and that at any moment that thing is going to snap, sending you spiraling into madness, or something like that. Let me just say this: that ain't gonna happen. I can tell you what will happen though. You'll continue to think
The Dangers of Absolute Thinking
One of the best ways to stay anxious is to be inflexible. The biggest reason why many anxiety sufferers are inflexible is because they think in absolute terms. Everything is all or nothing. In other words, you don't just get chest pain, you get potential heart attacks. You don't just get headaches, but potential brain tumors and so on. Learning how to break the chains of absolute thinking is essential to getting rid of your abnormal anxiety. At the height of my anxiety illness I'd always rely on my best guess about what was going on
My Rebirth
Today I'm going to talk about myself. I never talk about myself, really. I suppose that I don't because this blog is about helping you. But I want to tell you about how helping you has changed my life. In 1999 I started a new phase in my life, namely an anxious phase. In 2006 I started dabbling in research about how to help myself. By that point I'd gone through therapy, rejected meds, and was confused as ever. By 2008 I had made a lot of progress in terms of understanding what was wrong with me and how I could fix it. That's around
Are We Bothering Others?
Today's guest post is brought to you by Daniel Stelter from the Anxiety Support Network. For many social anxiety sufferers including myself, a common thought that we often struggle with is the belief that we are bothering other people by talking to them or asking them things. Sometimes, this belief arrives from the experience that when we were so afraid of doing things on our own, we would ask so many questions of others that we actually did end up bothering them. Once it became clear to us that we were overstepping our bounds and
The Fight Against Anxiety Goes Mobile!
As smartphone technology improves, so will the apps for these versatile devices. There are currently thousands of apps available for the iPhone and Android phone systems and their utility keeps growing by the second. These apps can do everything, from showing you where the nearest restaurants are, all the way to helping you figure out the best deal on a new pair of shoes, as you shop! In fact, there are now anti-anxiety apps as well, and today we're going to tell you about one in particular called "At Ease." Anxiety Guru contributor
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