Sunday, December 14, 2008

Anxiety Therapy, Finding the Cure For Anxiety and Panic

By Ed Lathrop

Anxiety disorder is a very serious but very treatable illness. Millions of people suffer from anxiety disorders. This article discusses the very heart of anxiety therapy which will lead the sufferer to an understanding of anxiety disorder. This, in itself, will many times bring the sufferer toward the cure.

Realizing anxiety disorder is not rare and many other people have been cured of it is a very important fact any anxiety sufferer needs know. Equally important is the realization the cure to anxiety with all its horrible tricks, lies inside and will be set free as soon as the sufferer learns how to let his/her body heal itself.

Minor Anxiety Can Develop Into Full-Fledged Panic Attacks

Often anxiety disorders come on or become exacerbated with alcohol or substance abuse. However, this isn't always the case as evidenced by the fact many children suffer from anxiety disorders. Old or young, whatever race, color or creed, anxiety disorders play no favorites. They can strike anyone.

At its root, anxiety is about phobia or fear of something. Still, to the sufferer it is much more than that. Anxiety brings on panic which leaves its victim wondering what is happening. Other than this most disturbing condition, it also makes the sufferer believe he or she is falling prey to heart attack or stroke.

Anxiety Robs the Life From the Victim

In short, anxiety disorders steal a person's life because he can no longer behave or act normally. The sufferer can no longer make plans, because his life has become centered around anxiety. An anxiety sufferer fears these terrible feelings he has been experiencing, but even more, he/she fears that the worst has not yet happened and so he/she fears what the unknown more than the known.

However, no matter how bad the anxiety disorder has become, there is always hope. Anxiety disorders can be cured. The first and most important part is to learn what anxiety disorder is all about.

Part of the cure may be medications. These will help in keeping the patient more comfortable while he or she learns how to deal with anxiety. This is true because the only real cure will come when the sufferer learns exactly what anxiety is and how to defeat it, but it is tough to learn anything when a person is fighting off panic all the time. However, once an understanding of how the illness works is gained, the panic will start to subside.

The Mechanics Behind The Disease

Gaining total relief from anxiety disorder cannot occur until the anxiety victim realizes it is adrenaline that is causing all the strange sensations he or she is experiencing. He or she must also understand it is the body overproducing adrenaline that is what anxiety disorder is all about.

The cure takes a certain amount of time, but a good once a good understanding of what has been happening is realized, this feeling will inevitably follow. The sufferer has to take heart and realize that he/she has found the cure once he/she realizes that fearing the havoc adrenaline has been causing in his or her body feeds anxiety. He/she must also learn to not let this fear seize control of his life.

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