Whether you've had an anxiety disorder for months or several years something is bound to happen. That is you are bound to feel good at some point. And when this happens you should of course feel good about feeling good. But when you do feel good do you enjoy it? Or are you waiting for the next time you won't feel good? Chances are that you are probably somewhere in the middle when it comes to this question. However I would strongly urge you to reexamine the tendency to not fully enjoy the good times when they come. Take me for example,
Everything Isn’t So Bad
Cheer up you because I know you feel like your on the never ending train wreck from hell (anxiety disorder). But alas everything is not as bad as it seems. Now I have anxiety like you do so I would never scam you and say everything is peaches and cream. At the same time however I would seriously advise you to not despair and to stay positive. One of the easiest traps to fall into when you have an anxiety disorder is the self doubt, self pity, long term projected disasters hole. And, to an extent, I understand why this is. I mean after all
How To Defeat Negative Thinking
As we search for the best ways to defeat our anxiety symptoms sometimes we assume that the best solution to our problem just has to be complicated. How else could such a problem be dealt with right? Well I think that this is in fact not true. You've heard all the cliche's before, the shortest distance between two places is a straight line or how about the best solution is usually the most simple one so on and so forth. Although not always true, like if you wanted to build a space shuttle to reach Mars, simple is usually better. After all
What Causes the Lump In Your Throat?
Having a lump in your throat or the sensation that it's hard to swallow is a very common sensation among anxiety sufferers. This lump causes us to think that we are headed for a medical disaster and may even cause us to swallow in quick succession so that we can make sure that we can still swallow - just in case. This creates fear in us because the assumption is that sooner or later you won't be able to breathe. We start jumping to conclusions about what could be causing it and go into extended versions of the what if game. But let me
Neurontin Linked to Depression and Suicide
As you search for the magic anti-anxiety elixir you should always take careful note of what you are ingesting. In most cases a so called anxiety busting drug may be of interest to you for obvious reasons but you should always consider the side effects. One of the fastest ways to get into trouble with anxiety drugs is by using drugs that were not designed to treat anxiety in the first place. This type of drug use is sometimes called "off label " drug use. In other words you find a drug that was designed to treat kidney infections but you take
The Anxiety Buffet: General Anxiety Disorder
As many of you know there are six different types of anxiety disorders. Social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic disorder, general anxiety disorder and the broad category of phobias. Of all these terrible disorders general anxiety disorder is perhaps one of the worse since it incorporates many of the symptoms and characteristics of the others. Having general anxiety disorder or GAD is like visiting an all you can eat buffet of anxiety disorders but without the overwhelming sense of satisfaction
The Anxiety Guru Show: Podcast Round Up
It's been awhile since I published a podcast so I decided to do a podcast round up which basically consist of recent issues I've talked about on the blog. Here is a short list of some of the things I covered on this podcast. 1. State of the world and why this should not concern you as much as the news would have you believe. 2. Anxiety Cycle - a blurb about how we all have ups and downs with anxiety. 3. Coping and vice. 4. Does anxiety get better? I reviewed this question on the blog this week but I wanted to add a more complete
World Mental Health Day
Who knew that those that suffer from mental ailments had their own global holiday? I didn't. It turns out that Friday October 10, 2008 was World Mental Health Day. This mental health initiative is the creation of the World Federation for Mental Health or the WFMH . The stated goal of this quasi holiday slash global mental health awareness movement states as it's priority the "scaling up of services through citizen advocacy and action". The first Mental Health Health Day was celebrated in 1992 and so it only took me 16 years to hear about
Does Anxiety Cause High blood Pressure?
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