According to Celebrity Fix and Star magazine Angelina Jolie has been hyperventilating and having panic attacks. A source close to Jolie has revealed that she is scared about the birth of her twins. Jolie is apparently concerned that her new babies will not mesh well with the other kids and she is also concerned about the prospect of breast feeding two hungry babies. The "source" also stated that Jolie's voice is shrilled when she begins to panic and needs to be consoled by those close to her. Could there be more to this story? I'd say yea
Is Mental Illness Real?
I just read an article in the American Chronicle that gives a scathing criticism of psychology and psychiatry and describes this profession as a "significantly inventive profession". The articles author Lourdes Salvador goes on to essentially bash the entire psychiatric profession and explains that people with mental illness are labeled incorrectly as abnormal and basically drugged up for being different. She argues that people are labeled mentally ill by psychologist and psychiatrist simply because their patients do not behave and or
Anxiety Fueled Anger
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
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
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
What is PTSD?
PTSD is an acronym for Post -Traumatic Stress Disorder. If you are reading this post then you probably already know this, but clarification is always good. The name of this mental condition pretty much says it all - it is acute stress after something terrible has occurred and causes the sufferer to relive or maladjust to the terrible event. In other words, something really jacked up happened and you can't get over it. But it's more than that, it causes symptoms that range from frightening thoughts and nightmares to feeling emotionally numb
Vets Sue VA Over Mental Health Care
A few days I ago I wrote a post touting the efforts of the Department of Defense for trying to bolster their efforts aimed at raising PTSD awareness among servicemen. A few days after reading that story I came across another story aired by the NPR show All Things Considered that basically took all the air out of that feel good balloon. According to the report, which was aired March 3, 2008, a group representing the vets called the Disability Rights Advocates is suing The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) over the poor quality and outright
Military Attempts to Address PTSD
Post traumatic stress disorder is an issue for many people around the world. But because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan thousands of American service men and women are having to deal with it in ever greater numbers. Whatever your stance on the war, the bottom line is that the American military has seen a spike in the number of soldiers, sailors and airman coming home with PTSD, anxiety and depression. The good news is that the Department of defense is taking this matter seriously and using people from their own ranks to spread the word