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Anxiety News
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By James Wood
 For a great many individuals around the world, living in fear of when their next panic attack might appear is much worse than going through the symptoms themselves. We feel apprehensive about our normal daily activities, worried that we could lose control of ourselves and the circumstances at any time. Simple common things like driving a car or going to the shops become very worrying and sometimes it seems less trouble to avoid them altogether.
We are, of course, our own worst enemy. We know this. We start feeling anxious, so we get worried that we're going to have an attack, so we feel more anxious and often end up starting the panic attack that we were trying to avoid. Human beings don't like being out of control. It feels dangerous. Being Familiar With what we're facing makes us feel more secure, and comprehending the nature of our anxiety will make us feel safe too.
The panic attack response is designed to save your life. Mankind has 75 million years of evolution behind us that has outfitted us for survival. We have |
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Anxiety News
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By Annie Sullivan
 Anxiety happens to all of us. Most people can work hrough the anxiety and continue to live their lives doing whatever they choose to do. For others, it's not so easy. The anxiety builds until a panic attack occurs.
How do most doctors handle a patient with panic attack? Not very well. Most patients either receive a referral
to a psychiatrist or quickly are given written prescription for anti-anxiety medication. This panic attack approach to
treatment fails in full force once the medication is stopped. Why? Because the attacks were merely masked and not treated.
Drugs prescribed for anti-anxiety were never intended to be a cure. They work on your nervous system. The body has what's called a Central Nervous System (CNS) that gets and gives out signals.
Sometimes, those signals can go haywire. It's not anyone's fault when that happens. The autonomic system in
the body is one that baffles most family doctors. This is because they've been taught to fix whatever health issue
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