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![19145161[1]panic.thb Panic And Anxiety Attacks Can Happen At Any Time](http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2006/08/23/19145161[1]panic.thb.jpg "Panic attacks affect one out ...") An anxiety attack is a short period of overwhelming fear that comes on with no warning and for no rational reason. An anxiety attack can be a one-time event, but most often is an ongoing problem. Those who experience regular anxiety attacks (two or more anxiety attacks a month) should go to a doctor. It’s very likely that those who experience that many anxiety attacks have an anxiety or panic disorder. An anxiety attack is also often called a panic attack.
Regular anxiety attacks can prevent the person who experiences them from living a normal, happy life. Anyone of any adult age, from both genders, and of all races and economic backgrounds can have an anxiety attack.
Doctors and caregivers don’t know for sure what brings on an anxiety attack. But studies have shown that there are some health conditions and medications that might cause an anxiety attack. Anxiety attack triggers include withdrawing from alcohol or illegal drugs, a fear of having another anxiety attack, or heredity reasons.
An anxiety attack can bring on feelings of loneliness and a feeling of being out-of-touch with other people. There are other physical and emotional symptoms associated with an anxiety attack, but the main symptom is extreme fear. Some of the physical symptoms that can show up with an anxiety attack can feel like the symptoms of a serious health problem, like a heart attack.
The physical and emotional signs and symptoms of an anxiety attack rarely last longer than 30 minutes. The most intense symptoms of an anxiety attack usually peak within ten minutes. There have been a few rare cases where symptoms of an anxiety attack have lasted for hours. Continue Reading »
 Fear and anxiety are controllable and panic and worry can be overcome. What most people don’t understand is that fear and anxiety are designed to help us solve problems. However, in order to control fear and anxiety, one must understand how they work. When we experience uneasiness and concern it can make use fearful. This causes timidity, and timidity gives rise to a state of alarm which sometimes involves avoiding a matter or situation that needs to be resolved. If we avoid dealing with unresolved issues long enough, the fear and anxiety can cause a neurosis; acute or chronic anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and phobia. For this reason, we need to understand how fear works.
Our autonomic nervous system regulates how body organs work. Chiefly a part of the autonomic nervous system, called ’sympathetic’, automatically interacts with our mind when we worry, experience anxiety, fear. When fear is felt the mind signals a threat, danger, or emergency physically (e.g. a hand raised in anger) or psychologically (e.g. distrust); the sympathetic nervous system immediately comes into action to help protect or defend ourselves to our best possible advantage. Suddenly, automatically, we breath more oxygen which, with cyclic biochemical reactions, energizes our ‘electron transport chain’ and synthesis with other substances in our body, upon that fear signal. This synthesizing upon that fear signal urgently turns on electrical impulses which fire from cell to cell at very high speeds communicating that fear to the control center in the brain.In our fear and anxiety, the brain instantly issues commands to the organs to take action. Continue Reading »
 Anxiety disorders are very common among the American population, ranking as the most common mental health problem in the country. The spectrum of anxiety disorders includes panic attacks, agoraphobia, generalized and social anxiety as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. This spectrum of disorders is linked to heredity and environmental factors.
Traditionally, these disorders were treated with prescription medication and cognitive therapy. However, the disagreeable side effects of medication and the expense and time required to engage in cognitive therapy has many patients seeking natural approaches to treating their disorder. Anxiety supplements are growing in popularity across the board.
The first step should be to consult your physician. Anxiety supplements are useful, but many symptoms of the mental health disorder resemble physical diseases like hormone imbalance, hyperthyroidism or cardiac arrhythmias. These are serious physical conditions that require immediate medical attention and can not be treated with anxiety supplements. After consulting with your doctor an determine that your condition is mental and not physical, there are a number of options.
If you are not fond of the idea of taking prescription medications, anxiety supplements can be beneficial for you. The supplements have fewer side effects and they are much less daunting and less expensive. One of the most popular anxiety supplements is Chamomile tea. Continue Reading »
 You are about to get married, tie the knot, jump the broom, make an honest man/woman out of someone else or any other of a number of ways to describe a wedding.
Its no wonder that getting married is said to be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life and almost everyone suffers from last minute nerves, wedding jitters or extremely cold feet! The important thing is to keep these wedding jitters under control and not let them ruin your big day.
Having a few nerves and jitters is perfectly normal and the adrenaline can actually help you cope with being the centre of attention if you are a little on the shy side. One of the best ways to help calm wedding jitters is to sit quietly, just before the service and, if need be, remind yourself exactly why you want to get married!
Often the bride or groom will have a drink or two before the ceremony to help lessen their wedding jitters but don’t let this go too far. Too much liquor can make for a very forgettable day! Continue Reading »
 Lexapro is the brand name for the chemical Escitalopram, a drug classed as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Other SSRIs include Fluoxetine (Prozac), Fluvoxamine (Luvox), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), and Sertaline (Zoloft). Lexapro is produced today by the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, and is marketed under the brand name Cipralex in Europe. Lexapro is basically a pure isolated form of the active isomer of Citalopram, and therefore works in the same way that the drug Celexa does. People with allergies or adverse reactions to Celexa should therefore not take Lexapro.
Like all SSRIs, Lexapro acts by increasing the amount of serotonin present in the synapses between nerve cells. Because serotonin is a mood enhancing neurotransmitter, the main use for SSRIs is as a treatment for depression. Some SSRIs, including Lexapro, have been shown effective in treating forms of anxiety disorders as well. Lexapro and other SSRIs do not add any serotonin or mood altering chemicals to your body, but rather help your body to better utilize its own natural mood stabilizing machinery.
Some of the most common side effects of Lexapro include reduced appetite, reduced libido, sexual dysfunction, constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, dry mouth, sweating, insomnia, drowsiness, fatigue, and nausea. Most users of Lexapro will experience one or more of these effects during the first months of use, but they are usually mild and fade with time. Less often, users of Lexapro may experience stomach pain, strange dreams, chest pain, blurry vision, heartburn, fever, severe headaches, muscle pains, sinus congestion, tingling sensations, tremors, vomiting, and the inability to orgasm. Continue Reading »
 Stress is an unavoidable factor in anyone’s lives these days. Whether it is through work, family, school or other situations, stress is a dangerous and silent monster. Stress can pop up at anytime, and has an adverse effect on a number of things, from your general well-being, to your heart, to your sleeping habits, to your interpersonal relationships. Stress can make good things bad, and bad things worse. Coping with stress is an important skill today, and something that they simply don’t teach in school. Here are a couple of tips for coping with stress.
One of the first things you need to know when coping with stress is your “stressor(s)”. This is the circumstance, food, drink, or place that heightens your feelings of stress. Some of these are obvious: a high-pressure job. Others aren’t so simple, such as particular dietary choices. Learning about what stresses you out is a key first step in coping with stress.
Knowing what stresses you out is sometimes all it takes; being aware of your stressors will sometimes eliminate themselves. Many people “feel” stress by feeling helpless and unknowledgeable. Many people feel better simply knowing what is going on. Obviously, if this isn’t the case, you would do well in coping with stress by eliminating the circumstances that stress you out. Some of this is impossible; you can’t get rid of your kids because they stress you out. But you would be surprised what getting some babysitting once in while “just for a break” could do to help with that. That is to say, if you can’t eliminate the stressor, perhaps you can minimize it or cut back. Continue Reading »
 Human beings are social creatures, but that doesn’t always mean we are the nicest to each other. Even though we all admit that we’re “in this together”, sometimes you want to just rip someone’s face off, or, at the least, hope something bad will happen to their face. This can be an especially big problem at high stress situations, most specifically, the workplace. For years, some of the worst and most violent disagreements take place at, or because of, conflict at work. But this is a pattern you do not need to fall victim to. Social scientists have spent years on ways to resolve conflict at work. Here are a couple of their tips.
First, to diffuse a conflict at work, you must try to find and emphasize common ground. Most of the time, a conflict at work arises out of a disagreement on a particular issue. Usually, this disagreement underlies a very similar mentality. People rarely disagree with each other in spite when there is something to be gained. Most of the time, this disagreement stems from different perspectives or opinions. However, the goal behind the opinions are almost always the same; saving money, expanding, increasing profit potential or efficiency. It is not the “why” that causes conflict, but the “how.” When you find yourself in this conflict, remind all involved of this; “how’s” can be altered, added and subtracted, but the “why” is crucial to any cohesive organization.
Be direct. Many times during a conflict at work, or anywhere else for that matter, a conflict draws out emotions. People have different emotional responses to a conflict and, everyone, when feeling such a cocktail of negative and angry emotions, have trouble seeing and thinking clearly, even you. Continue Reading »
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