Anxiety Help-Symptoms of an Attack by Cher

Anxiety Help-Symptoms of an Attack By Cher

Anxiety Help-Symptoms of an AttackIf you an adult, sometimes kids have them as well, but as an adult I think we all know what a bit of Anxiety feels like.

Usually we get shaky, breathe shallowly, and for most people it passes quickly. For people like us who's anxiety attacks do not pass quickly we have a whole gamut of symptoms that we go through such as:Your cardiovascular system leaps into action.Your heart beats hard and fast to pump blood 5X's the normal rateBlood rushes to the outer extremities in the muscles to enable sufficient strength for fight or flight.Blood is constricted in other less essential areas like the surface of your skin (you end up looking quite pale as a result).

Blood vessels in the kidneys and digestive system also constrict and your mouth becomes dry as a result.To lighten the load your bladder or bowels may open up--hence irritable bowel and/or upset stomach, usually a feeling that you have to poo , and right now!

Sweat glands open up to cool your body down.Your respiratory system acts up,Your lungs and nostrils open up and your breath speeds up. This allows more air so more blood can be oxygenated, delivering more blood to the muscles.

This also gives you the ability to scream loudly!Also:Endorphins are released providing a natural pain reliever (sore joints won't limit your strength or speed).Our senses sharpen and our pupils dilate. We can even see better in the dark.Energy is metabolized. Fat is broken down from the cells and glucose from the liver creates a ready source of energy.

Your higher brain gets slowed, makes it hard to thinkYour thinking becomes intensely focused on identifying the source of danger even if it is not readily known. Any clue from past experiences is called up from the deep files in the far recesses of the brain.You are more reactive and spontaneous.

This is not a time for reflection.

Anxiety attack symptoms are provoked by our fight or flight response!In conclusion, for most of us it feels like a heart attack, or in extreme cases it we feel out of our body's, and a feeling of not being here happens. We can also think we are dying.You are not dying, you can work through these attacks and the more your practice the better and easier it gets.

There are some other tips to getting through an anxiety attack, just look at my past blogs.Try to reduce stress, knock out caffeine, and relax as much as possible. Every step helps.

I hope you all have a calm day!

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General Anxiety/Anxiety Help by Cher

General Anxiety/Anxiety Help by Cher

We are living in a day where anxiety issues are prominent in our society. Things are so fast paced and stress is higher than ever before. People just don't seem to know how to relax, and I am one of them. My form of relaxing is laying down, not really a relaxation technique and I never feel relaxed afterward, this is all because I really don't know how to relax! I'm not really sure if anyone does. I know that breathing techniques help, i've talked about them alot in my posts, but it is very important to learn how to relax.

I am going on a quest to find out what method works the best for me. I will be researching and testing things such as Yoga, Tai-Chi, Meditation and many more.

I will keep you posted as I learn the different techniques and let you know how they work for me. This will be a test of the emergency anxiety program and how to cure myself and hopefully you too!

Try to have a stress less day!

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Anxiety and Sleep habits by Cher

Anxiety and Sleep habits by Cher

If you are up late, as I am at the moment. You may want to stop and think for a minute, if your sleeping habits are a product of your stress or anxiety cycles. I have noticed in myself, that when things are going well and stress is down, anxiety is lower, I tend to have an easy time getting to sleep and I get up more easily than ususal. However if my stress is up, whether it is due to a depression cycle or even a happy event, I have a harder time getting to sleep, since my brain seems to run over the days events and even what I need to do the next day. Now we can all atest to this in some form or another, however in the Anxiety/Panic prone people it can be extreme.

Suggestion, a form of meditation.....I know you are rolling your eyes right now because you've tried it and it didn't work for you....Well i'm here to tell you it does if you are consistant.

My form, when trying to calm my mind in bed and get to sleep , is I picture a beautiful golden bright ball hovering around me foot area. I can control the ball, and I concentrate on moving it. I move it slowly around my feet, as if it were massaging them, from one foot to the next and work the ball up slowly all the way up my body.

Now the first time I tried this, it was relaxing, kept my mind occupied but I had to do it 3 times before I finally fell asleep. Now , after using this on a regular basis, I am asleep before the ball reaches my hip area. Seems far out there, but try it , it works.

Otherwise, some soothing music, anything thing that you are comfortable with, but stick to it, and you will have a natural sleeping pattern, during stressful times.!

Here's to a great nights sleep!

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Hi to all the Anxiety sufferers out there!

You know you don't have to suffer. I have had many a post about how you can overcome your anxiety and how there are many tips and tricks to help train your brain to not think the way that we all do. We all tend to think in the "what if"mindset and this is what we really need to change. We all have anxiety to one degree or another. If we didn't we wouldn't be alive. For some of us our brains live in the mindset of , "if I do this, then this will happen" or "if I don't do this, I will avoid the panic attack all together". There are ways to overcome this way of thinking. It takes work on your part, but the work is worth it. I have said before, seek professional help first, but that professional help can only take you so far, the rest of the work is yours. You have to train your brain. There are many ways to do this, you have to find the one that works for you and do it over and over and over again. If you look at some of my archived posts and read through, you will find many tips that I have given, that worked for me. I'm not going to put them out in this post as it is long already. Please feel free to read them and I will be back soon to post some other tips.

You can overcome this, the first step is to try!

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