Posted in General Books & Reading on Dec 15th, 2009
Anxiety and worries are a common part of daily life: health issues, emotional problems, work difficulties, money, exams and so on, give one plenty of subjects to think of. The difference between the normal stress we call anxiety and general anxiety disorder symptoms results from the frequency and the disruptive nature of the worries. When [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Dec 4th, 2009
Excessive and unrelenting worrying that is both disruptive and repetitive. This is the simplest definition for generalized anxiety disorder, a psychological problem that affects millions of people worldwide. Although encountered in all group ages, generalized anxiety disorder usually appears between twenty and thirty years of age. There are very many teenagers and children affected by [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 30th, 2009
An intense panic attack is usually followed by the administration of anti-anxiety medication to prevent other similar episodes. However, tranquilizers represent just a temporary relief method that can only be used in perfect safety for a very short period of time, due to the high risk of side effects. Here are some of the paradoxical [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 17th, 2009
When experiencing a panic attack for the first time it may be very difficult to identify the symptoms unless you’ve heard someone talking about them before or you’ve read some information on the condition. Chest tightness and palpitations are two of the first anxiety attack symptoms, but these two could also point to heart disease. [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 17th, 2009
A panic anxiety disorder is characterized by the appearance of severe and sudden episodes of very intense symptoms such as accelerated heart beat, intense sweating, limb shaking, confusion, terror, the feeling of death imminence or craziness, sense alertness, pupil dilation, choking the impulse to run or scream and so on. If the cause of the [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 15th, 2009
Will you recognize a panic attack if it strikes you out of the blue? Chances are you won’t know what’s happening. Chest tightness and palpitations are the anxiety attack symptoms to become manifest first, but these two could also point to heart disease. Throat dryness, accelerated sweating, shortness of breath and hyperventilation as well as [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 15th, 2009
From patient to patient and from therapist to therapist the methods used for attacking anxiety depression vary a lot. Though there are many similarities between the two conditions, anxiety and depression represent in fact two distinct health problems that often overlap in treatment. The symptoms specific to anxiety and depression are therefore almost identical. Thus, [...]
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Posted in General Books & Reading on Nov 14th, 2009
Expensive or cheap, complex or simple, anxiety treatments are surely diverse and versatile. Drugs seem like the easy solution to put a stop to panic attacks but the alleviation is temporary and the discomfort is back at the end of the treatment. Psychotherapy brings most of the hopes and solutions in terms of anxiety treatments [...]
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