5 Different Types Of Anxiety Disorders That Require Treatment

You should understand that there are a number of different anxiety disorders with varied degrees of severity. What does an anxiety attack feel like? Here are 5 different types of anxiety disorders.

1. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, better known as O.C.D., occurs when you have unwanted thoughts or behaviors that you simply cannot control. You may have O.C.D. if you have a recurring worry that you have not locked the front door, if everything has to be in an exact spot, or if you have some other uncontrollable compulsion.

2. Phobia
Many people are well aware of phobia, but do not realize that it is a form of anxiety. This is an unrealistic fear of a particular object, activity or situation that really has little or no danger whatsoever to you. Some of the more common fears include snakes, flying, and the fear of heights.

3. Panic Disorder
This type of anxiety disorder is known by unexpected panic attacks that occur repeatedly to the point where you begin to fear when the next attack is going to happen. You may also come to fear that no one will be around to help you when an attack does come on.

4. Post-traumatic stress disorder
The last form of anxiety disorder you want o familiarize yourself with is post-traumatic stress disorder. This often occurs in after a traumatic event or life-threatening experience has just happened. Symptoms you may find yourself dealing with include flashbacks, nightmares, startling easily or simply avoiding situations that remind you of that particular event.

5. Social anxiety disorder
With this type of anxiety disorder you tend to feel humiliated in public and fear being looked down upon by others. Some may consider this nothing more than being extremely shy, but it is actually a legitimate disorder.

There are a number of disorders that fall under the category of anxiety. Some are well known such as phobia and OCD, others aren’t even thought of as anxiety. Get help. Check out preventing anxiety attacks treatment reviews on our site.

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Posted under Stop Stressing by Expert Contributor on Monday 27 July 2009 at 6:26 pm

Preventing Anxiety Attacks With 3 Great Exercises

The leading cause of anxiety attacks is the fear of failure in the professional environment, leading to the loss of income. The second leading cause, is the fear of social rejection and embarrassment. It is easy to see that both of these can and often do, lead to a self fulfilling prophesy. Anxiety commonly builds on itself and worsens.

Ask yourself the question, what does an anxiety attack feel like, then determine if you do have a developing problem with anxiety attacks. When you feel the onslaught of one coming on, here are few separate exercises you can do to prevent an attack.

Exercise 1.
Lie on your stomach. Extend your arms forward at 10 and 2 o’clock. Point your toes strait back. Now arch your back, lift you head and stretch. Breath in deep when your head is lifted. Exhale and relax back down. Do this several times. If exercise 1 doesn’t work, proceed to exercise 2.

Exercise 2
Lie on your back, lift your knees and place your feet flat on the floor as you would for a normal sit-up. Rock your head side to side 2 times to loosen your neck. place your hands behind your neck and take one deep breath through your nose and exhale. take another deep breath and proceed to do a sit-up exhaling on the way up. For extreme cases, proceed to exercise 3.

Exercise 3
This exercise is only for people who are reasonably young and fit. Find a safe neighborhood, track or park where you can jog. You will only need approximately 150 yards to complete this. Walk the first 30 yards practicing slow deep nose breathing. Sprint the next 10 yards. Walk 40 yards and sprint the next 10 yards. Walk 50 yards and sprint the next 10 yards. This exercise allows the body to rob resources used by an anxiety attack. The heart now is responding to your physical needs, not irrational anxiety. Adrenaline becomes the dominant chemical in your body for a short time necessary to trump the effects of the anxiety attack.

It is always standard procedure to check with your doctor before attempting any of these exercises. If you have a heart condition, exercise 3 is out of the question.

Anxiety attacks occur so frequently in American society today, that people have accepted it as just something normal in life. Make no mistake about it, an anxiety attack is not normal and if left untreated, will cause both health and professional problems.

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Posted under Stop Stressing by Expert Contributor on Friday 24 July 2009 at 10:45 am

Ringing Ears Silenced by Sour Fruit

If life gives you lemons, it is not good. When your doctor prescribes lemons , say thank you.

The treatment of many common ailments is being found in the skin of the much maligned lemon. To be more specific, the extract is called bioflavonoid and it can be be found in many fruits including lemons, oranges, grapefruits, limes and bilberry to name only a few.

What is so intriguing, is the reported successes of it as a side effect free treatment for a very diverse list of symptoms. Just a few of those are;

-As an anti-bacterial agent
-Treatment of cataracts
-Gout
-Anti-inflammatory conditions such as Arthritis
-Pain relief from bruising

Citrus based bioflavonoids have been long known to boost the absorption of vitamin C, a major antioxidant. One of the most promising use of the citrus extract is for the treatment of ringing ear Tinnitus. The ability to open the cochlear pathways may suggest more potential for use in capillary related ailments.

Doug A. Kaufmann of knowthecause has written extensively about a possible link between cancer and fungus due to it’s byproduct mycotoxin. Antibiotics are themselves mycotoxins. This suggests that antibiotics may be a very bad treatment of cancer. To date, with no cancer cure found in antibiotics or otherwise, this seems a fair assumption. If in fact a link to fungus is found, it may be the lowly extract of the lemon, once again to the rescue, as bioflavonoid is also used as an anti-fungal.

Bilberry has long been a favorite in treating declining vision or sharpening night vision. The bioflavinoid extract from this fruit shows great promise in the treatment of conditions stemming from a week optic nerve and even cataracts.

Arthritis has long eluded a cure. Glucosamine has been the treatment of choice for the past few years however for must people the results have been less than satisfactory. New treatments for the inflamation include Hyaluronic acid and bioflavanoid.

Most bioflavonoid or lipoflavonoid pills are made from the lemon skin. It is a potent source and inexpensive. The lemon is no longer just a sour fruit, it is becoming a medical superstar.

There really is no downside to treatment with this natural lipoflavonoid. Pills are always easy to take, and are certainly a cost effective option. The most enjoyable way to ingest it is by eating dark chocolate. Not only is dark chocolate rich in antioxidants it also has a significant high concentration. Now for me, dark chocolate is always the treatment for whatever the problem is.

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Posted under Ringing Ear Wiki by Expert Contributor on Thursday 23 July 2009 at 1:00 pm

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