Picture it, you're enjoying an average day at work when all of sudden you get a sharp jabbing pain in the center of your chest. You go from totally relaxed to "oh no!" in 3 nanoseconds. This is a very typical reaction to anxiety induced chest pain. Chest pain can create a swift and focused sensation of fear all over your body in what feels like an instant. Your first assumption is that you're having a heart attack and that you're going to die suddenly. After several minutes of experiencing chest pain, even though you haven't died
The Anxiety Guru Show: Excessive Worry Ep 9
Show Notes: Anxiety Guru News Desk: 1. According to an article in the American Chronicle depression and anxiety are not conditions but rather emotions that have gotten out of control. Talk about controversial. 2. Doctors are now experimenting with new forms of treatment for PTSD. The latest treatment is called a stellate ganglion block, which is an injection of anesthetic into the neck. This shot is meant to "reset the nervous system" and helps to alleviate anxiety. The treatment is currently in the early stages of development. Click
Ace in the Hole: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Recently I have talked a lot about various forms of therapies for anxiety disorders. Some of which are considered somewhat fringe or unorthodox. There is one therapy however that is widely accepted as being extremely effective and more in line with old school psychoanalytical techniques. It's called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT for short. I have sprinkled CBT throughout my blog as a reference point for how to cope with your anxiety. But today I wanted to actually go into detail about what it is, how it works and how it can help you.
Fear and Anticipation
Much of our problem as anxiety sufferers lies not only in the "now" moments of anxiety attacks and symptoms but also in the "maybe" of these same things. To a large degree I think it's the maybe that causes most of our angst and worry since it stimulates and prolongs the very emotions and feelings we hate so much. In his 1872 work called The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that "if we expect to suffer, we are anxious; if we have no hope of relief, we despair".
Automated Tranquility
It would be great if we could easily undo the accidental Jedi mind tricks that got our anxiety levels to this point. But the reality is that we will have to actively work on relaxing as part of our quest to manage our anxiety. To help us along I started a series of post related to alternative anxiety therapies. At first I wanted to talk about just a few over the past week. But I quickly realized that there were in fact many different types of therapies available to help an anxious person chill out and so I'll be introducing a few more this
Dance Your Anxiety Away
Therapy can be a frightening word because it brings up images of dimly lit waiting rooms filled with bad reading materials. But like the "smiling therapy" I recently reviewed there are in fact many fun ways to pursue therapeutics. One of the most fun forms of anxiety therapy I can think of is dance therapy. So despite your possible misgivings about looking goofy and or falling on your face you shouldn't be afraid to get on a dance floor. This is because there is real evidence to suggest that dancing can help improve your mood and serve as an
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