Archive for May, 2010

Taking time to relax is essential to offset the destructive effects of chronic stress on the body. Through the regular practice of relaxation techniques, one can begin to overturn this cumulative, hurtful process, and engage the body’s incredible possibility for self-healing.

Progressive muscle relaxation, also known as a guided body scan is a very valuable stress management technique. A guided body scan — which seeks to locate and release muscular tensions — supports deep relaxation, as most of us hold needless tension in some of our muscles. The location of chronic muscle tension can differ from person to person.

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Barely Blind – Panic Attacks Are Normal


Panic Attack Are Normal By Barely Blind www.myspace.com Click here for the Debut Music Video for PAAN! www.youtube.com

I have obsessive compulsive disorder, and often get fired. My symptoms is that I keep on checking things over and over again. For example, I keep on checking the door lock and light switch over and over again to see if it locked properly, so that I get a right feeling that it closed properly.
If you have obsessive compulsive disorder what kind of job you have?
There is many more different kinds of checking rituals that I do which I am too ashamed to say.

I want to know if there are any other “cures” for anxiety attacks besides exercising, and using drugs. I know therapy is supposed to help too, but anything else besides those things?

I am a senior in high school and I have pretty bad social phobia. I still don’t really have a clue what kind of job I would like.. I would like one that pays good money and where i’m not really in the spot light. I like animals but I don’t want to be a vet cause I think that would probably be to hard for me. If you have any ideas I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

I have anxiety disorder which causes me to have panic attacks and I am trying to conceive.. So I was wondering if I had panic attacks while I am pregnant if it could hurt the baby?

There are two different types of social phobia. The first is generalized, where anything and everything in the way of social interaction has the potential to send your nerves into overdrive. People who are only afraid of a few or a particular type of social interaction have non-generalized or specific social phobia.

To help determine if you are suffering from social phobia answer “yes” or “no” to the following three questions:

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Maybe one of the most extended feelings these days is that of anxiety and stress, all this caused mainly by the difficult times we are all passing through in a downturn economy. But for a number of people this common stress can be the trigger to a much more painful state that is known as generalized anxiety disorder, and that can lead the person suffering from this condition to even present panic attacks in a given moment.

But why is that some of us have the propensity to convert a stressful period of our lives into a generalized anxiety disorder that refuses to go away? Some study lines move towards a physiological cause in the brain but there are other schools that are convinced that this anxiety problems originate from the inner functioning of our thinking process, in other words; we have learned to deal with stressful situations in a particular way that with time and the given stressful conditions will make us fall into the swamp of anxious feelings that won’t go away as they do for other persons. We will feel overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts and may even develop some manias.

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Because people are different anxiety disorder symptoms may vary from person to person. Worry, fear, and anxiety are a normal part of our life. Have you experienced feeling anxious before taking an exam and later find out that you got a higher result more than what you’ve expected?


Or, feeling anxious for a job interview and ended up getting hired, or feeling frightened walking down an alley where bad things often happened? Normal anxiety helps us cope in any stressful situation, it also keeps us watchful.

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Keeping Expectations in Perspective

(By Joe Cinova)

 

Wow, it’s that time of the year again. When the holidays are here, what are you thinking about? What kind of memories are rekindled? Are you overwrought with certain expectations?

 

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