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Living with Anxiety
by Phil Wiley
Anxiety is a disorder that fills people’s lives with fear and nervousness.
People can have anxiety in a range of forms including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), phobias and generalized anxiety disorder.
Everyone is familiar with the feeling of anxiety – nervousness, a knot of fear or a sinking feeling in your stomach, the feeling of fight or flight. But imagine having to live with that feeling every day?
Quite often people who have anxiety disorders also suffer from depression and this needs to be treated along with their anxiety disorder. Symptoms of depression include feelings of sadness, hopelessness, changes in appetite or sleep, low energy, and difficulty concentrating.
Environmental, psychological, genetic and bodily factors can all contribute to the risk of a person developing an anxiety disorder. Because of this some people are more at risk than others and some anxiety disorders have more of a relation to genetics than others.
There is a four to seven times increased risk of developing panic disorder for close relatives of those who are already sufferers.
Many people who live with anxiety disorders live their lives suffering and remain untreated. However, anxiety is very treatable with a combination of anxiety-reducing drugs and other therapies.
A specific phobia is an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias can include spiders, closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, dogs, and injuries involving blood.
People with panic disorder have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly without warning and are often highly anxious between attacks about where and when the next one will occur.
Social phobia or social anxiety disorder involves overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. Sufferers have a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions.
Those with obsessive-compulsive disorder suffer from anxious thoughts or rituals they feel they can't control. They can be suffer from persistent, unwelcome thoughts or images, or by the urgent need to engage in certain rituals such as washing their hands a certain number of times or getting dressed following a very strict routine.
Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop following a terrifying event. Those with the disorder have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb.
Generalized anxiety disorder goes beyond everyday anxiety. It is a chronic disorder that involves unprovoked exaggerated worry and tension.
About the author:
Article by health writer Kate Wiley of http://www.healthy-shopper.com Health in 1 http://www.health-in-1.com and Advice on Health http://www.advice-on-health.com
Kate and Phil Wiley run these popular health sites
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Posted: Monday 19th September 2005, 11:25 AM
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Reclaiming Your Life From Anxiety Symptoms |
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Reclaiming Your Life From Anxiety Symptoms
By Charles Linden
Only somebody who has lived with anxiety – as either a sufferer or a carer – knows how devastating it can be. The affect can be seen and felt across every aspect of your life for years and years.
So how does anxiety make you withdraw from life?
Basically, people with anxiety live their lives defensively, at a level where they are merely ‘coping’ instead of ‘embracing’. They are life’s ‘passengers’, passive in their emotional and physical relationship with the world around them - rather than ‘activists’ who engage with their surroundings and interact with people.
Now I want to share something with you that will probably – hopefully! – shock you.
Have you ever sat down with pen and paper and worked out how much time you spend feeling anxious every day of your life? An hour? Two? Four? Ten?!
If you spend even a single hour a day in anxious mode, that equates to 30 hours a month – that’s two ‘waking’ days every month where you could be playing with the kids, training for a marathon run, taking up a hobby, visiting old friends… LIVING your life. Instead, you’re wasting that valuable time on your anxiety.
At it’s worst, I know my anxiety had reached the point where it took over 90% of my waking thoughts. It left me totally exhausted.
Looking back, I now know that by allowing this anxiety to have such a huge stake in my life took real commitment on my behalf!
So, I took control and by doing so, I was rewarded with all this extra time… and all this additional energy with which to fill the hours in a positive way! What a bonus!
I cannot tell you the sense of relief and liberation this sparked in me. And the most wonderful thing is, just as anxiety is a downward spiral that sees you withdraw from life, so this liberation is an uplifting cycle which grows and grows. Once you begin, you can’t contain it!
I know that if I hadn't taken control and eliminated my anxiety for good, I’d still be on that downward spiral… getting ever more sucked into the anxiety abyss where your every waking moment is dominated by fear.
So, don’t be afraid of the fear, the unknown. Instead, look forward to all the wonderful possibilities that YOUR life has yet to put your way!
Looking at my family, I’m so glad I faced up to my own fear. The answer is never in retreating from life… it’s everything to do with defeating anxiety.
Charles Linden specialises in the treatment of anxiety symptoms. Learn how to cure yourself of Anxiety quickly, permanently and get Free access to a valuable interview done with Charles by the BBC visit: http://beatanxiety.amazon-4u.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
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Posted: Sunday 18th September 2005, 2:10 PM
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