What are the best ways of treating anxiety and panic attacks besides exercising or using any drugs?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at
10:47 pm
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?
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Breath… deeply. think relaxing thoughts. skip caffeine. but excercise and medicine are the best.
Well try figuring out what it is that sets you off and try to avoid them.
Also, stay away from caffeine (including chocolate) and sugar.
When one does start.. sit down, take deep breaths and think of something else until it goes away.
You could try blowing on a dandelion and making a wish. You have to work at these things. There is no easy answer. Take the drugs or do the therapy and exercise. That is what works.
sometimes closing your eyes and visualising a safe place whilstbreathing deeply can help.
I used this all the time when i used to have panic attacks, i know it can be hard especially when u are actually panicing at the time but believe me it does work. good luck with it all :-)
meditation, prayer, slow deep breaths
you should ask your doctor,if your anxiety is becoming worse.
But, there are natural ways of calming by breathing exercises and massages even aromatherapy, like herbs. Especially passionflower.
Anxiety is self-created.
Nobody imposes anxiety. It is neither inherited.
It is you, who have loaded heavy anxiety on your small head. Unknowingly you must have added the weight slowly. Now the weight is more and unbearable. You should now know how to unload that weight of anxiety. Unloading is also to be done slowly and steadily. It cannot be done overnight.
Analyze how you have loaded this anxiety on your body. This anxiety comes due to unnecessary, unwanted and undeserving desires which we start developing. When the desire is not getting fulfilled, one gets frustration. Frustration leads to worry. Worry leads to anger. Anger leads to indecision or wrong decisions. One becomes restless. Mind becomes stressed. One does not get proper sleep. Then we try several methods to come out of it. We commit more mistakes by thinking that drugs and alcoholic drinks may reduce the tension. Sleeplessness leads to mental functioning getting affected. Mental upset, mental disorder. Our efficiency goes down. Our effectiveness goes down. Our memory weakens. More and more anxiety comes. We become a laughing stock before others. We take loans and we are not able to pay back in proper time. Family is worried and affected.
Can you now please see what is the origin of this anxiety. Cut the source now itself. Then only you can come out of this trouble.
I suffered from panic attacks for 10 years, I cured myself in less than a week and have not had a panic attack in 2 years.
Here is how I beat panic attacks:
In my experience counseling, relaxation techniques and medication simply do not work.
As a past sufferer of panic attacks and as a health care professional, I am totally convinced panic attacks are caused by the over production of insulin due to eating unnatural processed food massively high in simple carbohydrates.
Google hypoglycemia and you will see what i mean.
Im afraid exercise is part of the solution, though 30mins 3 times a week is suffice.
Cut out all foods containing simple carbohydrates from your diet, no simple sugars, like sucrose, fructose, cane syrup etc also no white flour, bread, pasta, pastry etc (this is a lot harder than it sounds and will dramatically change your diet)
Cut out all caffeine (caffeine is a very underestimated drug), no coke, coffee, tea.
If you smoke marijuana, kick the habit, marijuana is notorious for causing bouts of hypoglycemia.
Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.
Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There’s this strange herb called “St John’s Wort” – it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John’s Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.
The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced… you have that “learned behavior” in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction… There are several other techniques to help cope them!
Ok, to use Distraction: Firstly, try to….
Extracted from Source.
The only thing that will work permanently is to get to the source of your fear (this is what causes the anxiety) and eliminate it. This can be done and there are some simple techniques you can learn to help you do this.
I used them and it helped me overcome years of anxiety and panic attacks without drugs.
This site may be of some help to you.
All the best and remember – you will get through this.
Tessa
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Hi
I did a little research and discovered this great resource (ebook) that addresses this issue in detail.
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Stopping panic attacks can be alleviate by any of the following simple techniques.
1. Breathing deeply through the nose and out through the mouth ten times before you stop.
2. Counting down from 100 to 0, tricks your mind into thinking you are lowering the panic level as your count down.
3. Visualize yourself somewhere, say on holiday where you felt very relaxed and at ease.
4. Change your thought patterns. If you think you are going to panic you will. Conversely if you see yourself ahead of time, going into the situation with confidence and being in control this will greatly improve the experience you have.