Ideas for getting rid of anxiety!!!!?!
Question: heres the deal...ever since i can remember i have had really bad anxiety....but the problem is that i don't know why. i get really shaky and i can never sit still. whenever i am doing something (keeping myself busy) i am fine but if I am around a lot of people in an inclosed building it kicks in....should i look into medication??? or what
Answers: heres the deal...ever since i can remember i have had really bad anxiety....but the problem is that i don't know why. i get really shaky and i can never sit still. whenever i am doing something (keeping myself busy) i am fine but if I am around a lot of people in an inclosed building it kicks in....should i look into medication??? or what
Before you try medication, you might try some alternative treatments.
In college I had a friend who used to get diarhea before each major test. (She was pre-med, and grades after to be very, very good to get into med school.) I got her something called a touch stone to rub while she was studying. It worked! No more diarhea. If that sounds silly to you, so be it, but the results were immeadiate. I believe it gave her a release of nervous enrgy, and it wasn't turned inward. Touchstones can be bought at many "New Age or Health food stores, but all it really needs to be is a smooth rock.)You might try relaxation techniques. Here is how it works: When you are feeling nervous, focus on relazing the muscles in your toes, then your feet, then your ankles, calves, thighs, etc, until you get to your ears. Also concentrate on breathing deeply, slowly, if you feel nervous still, concentrate on your favorite place. The smells, sounds, colors, and textures. Then concentrate on your favorite activities, think about what it is about them that you like. If you are in class, concentrate on taking good notes, underlining the subjects in books, before you know it, time will have passed and classes and the schoolday are over. The positive images and relaxation techniques will gradually help diminish the perceive threats, and thus your nervousness.
REMEMBER: Everyone else has vulnerable feelings about themselves too. No one is secure about everything! NO-ONE! The older, and hopefully wiser people get, the more obvious this fact becomes.
Medication is a last resort. It often times causes as many or problems as it helps. If you come to think there is a magic pill to fix everything, you are in for some painful times in the future.
Finally, if you have tried this and more, and nothing else helps, there is no shame to talking to your physician about this. Just remember that in order for a doctor to truly help you, you hqave to be brutally honest with them AND yourself.
Remember even the people who seem to be the most self assured have issues. If they didn't, they wouldn't be human.
Good luck. I hope this helps. Good luck!!!!!
Go to Web MD or consider Buspar
It sounds to me as if you may have panic disorder, or even just generalized personality disorder. I am NOT a doctor, so don't take my diagnoses to heart, but rather, do a little research in the link below, and see if you find anything that relates to you. I found the forum listed in the 2nd box particularly useful when I was going through a really bad period of anxiety and panic.
You may want to try Buspar (the medication a previous poster mentioned), which is a non-barbituate and non-habit forming anti-anxiety drug. I personally take this now, and it has helped me a lot. Of course, it is a prescription drug, so you will need to see your doctor, or a psychiatrist, who can assess your symptoms and see if this particular medication is right for you.
There are other links all over the web; try WebMD for Anxiety Disorders, or try visiting the American Psychiatric Association's website at: http://www.psych.org for more information.
Start smoking and learn how to control your mental state. Brought my clinically diagnosed hypertension down.
You can try some literature thar is easy to read.Ive tried it but it is still along process.They are written by a woman named Bev Aisbett and are in cartoon format so they are east to read even if you dont like reading but once you start you cant put them down.They are Living with IT,Living IT up,Letting IT go and The book of IT 10 steps to conquering anxiety but you do need all of them to be able to do the last book.Give it a go.I have suffered to for a long time and only found out about these books 1 year ago