Shrinking is the word that describes the world right now.  Figuratively, the world is becoming smaller as the days turns to months and the months into years.  Due to several factors way beyond the control of ordinary humans, societies and communities were thrust in a whirlwind of change.

Everything in the world these days are going faster.  This means faster ways of transporting people and things and most especially faster modes of communication.  Bullet trains using electricity and magnetism can that can run for several miles are a common sight.  The travel time is slashed to almost 75% compared to the usual.  This just means people have more time to do other things.

Also, people now prefer to send messages thru e-mail rather than using the services of the local post office thru the slow “snail mail”.  This is because e-mails or electronic mails can allow messages to be sent instantly even if the person is half-way across the globe.

With the way technology is progressing these days people can’t help but feel relieved and comforted that somehow they can do more things in so short a time.  Thus, in the area of communication, people must now need to catch up and be involved in the “information super highway” revolution.  Technology has become a blessing to most of them.

Yet, not all are feeling this way of being exuberant about the benefits technology has given them. The faster lifestyle brought about by a smaller world is in fact a bane to them.  They felt that coping in this ever changing, ever faster world causes great anxiety to them.  Their inability to change or inability to cope with the changes happening around is a concern too much for them to handle.

Worrying from time to time is normal because it can keep people on their toes and always be alert.  But excessive worrying has the potential to lead to anxiety attacks or panic disorders.  Anxiety attacks or panic disorders are symptoms of stress that can affect a person.

The effect of anxiety attacks can make people experience inefficiency at work, mood swings or sudden behavioral changes.  The chances that diseases and illnesses will manifest in the body also increase.  Psychologists often call this as the irrational or illogical fear. Most anxiety books can explain this.

In the same manner people who are suffering from anxiety attacks or panic disorders can find comfort in technology.  This is because technology can be the source of their sufferings. Ironic as it seems where technology is the source of their problems, technology can also be the cure.

Nowadays, there are several natural treatments anxiety.  There are the so-called psychotherapy, medications or the Charles Linden method.

The cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) falls under the psychotherapy treatment.  The slow exposure treatment therapy is one of the treatment methodologies.  CBT requires two components to be considered effective.  These are the: Behavioral component and the Cognitive component.

The behavioral component is designed to alter the person’s perception of the situation that causes him anxiety or stress.  For example an individual suffering from anxiety caused by a group of people can be helped by making the individual realize that the group of people are friendly and will not cause him harm.   This requires changing the perspective of the sufferer little by little.  A mindsoothe is perfect in this regard.

The cognitive aspect is about helping people become aware and alter their usual thinking pattern.  CBT is accomplished thru group sessions where everybody will be required to share and release their bad experiences regarding the things that causes them anxiety or stress.

Relevant to the treatment of anxiety attacks are medications and other natural remedies.  In the area of medications there are two classes that can be administered to the sufferer.  These are the: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) and Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRI). These are all antidepressants which are used to relieve or cure anxiety attacks.  The natural way of treatment can include mindsoothe, nerve tonic and purecalm, panic portal.

It is common for people to be under stress but to be under this situation most of the time is detrimental to one’s health.  When this happens people must relax and try to find comfort in medications or thru natural means.

One must not confuse anxiety attack with generalized anxiety disorder. The anxiety attacks are actually panic attacks that abruptly appear, reach its peak within ten minutes and then subside. Apparent causes of the attacks are not always clear, although the first attack can be triggered by fear, stress and even exercises, while the subsequent attacks can be triggered by the memory of the first attack. Indeed, an anxiety attack is so devastating that it leaves the person apprehending another attack and such apprehensions actually bring about another attack and the cycle goes on and on.

The generalized anxiety disorder on the other hand, characterizes long lasting anxieties, not focused on any subject or situation. The person is constantly worried about something or the other, however mundane that may be. Phobias are different too. They include all cases in which fear or anxiety is triggered by a specific stimulus or by a specific situation. Agoraphobia represents fear of being trapped in a close space and the sufferer needs to be in constant view of a door or other escape route.

That is not all. There are other pathological fears too. Obsessive-compulsive disorder characterizes repetitive obsessions and compulsions such as washing hands or keeping the windows shut. Then there are post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety, social anxiety etc. All these fears have been grouped under anxiety disorder because they have close connection with each other and can occur simultaneously in one person.

Charles Linden is one such person who suffered from panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive disorder and agoraphobia simultaneously. He tried to get respite from his condition by various conventional means, but could not. Without giving up, he undertook a thorough research on the subject to find a way out and he did that. Today through Linden Method panic attacks, GAD, OCD, PTSD and phobias can be cured in a drug free way. Later he said, “The moment you think you are beaten, you are.  The moment you decide that, you will not be beaten, you are on the path to victory.” Let that be your mantra too.

If you buy the Linden Method pack, you will get a 365-days guarantee. Unless it works, you will get full refund, though rest assured it is going to work and you will not be asking for refunds. Now, what does the Linden Method pack contain? It contains:
•The Linden Method Manual
•The 7 linden Method CDs
•The Linden Method DVD
•Free and unlimited counseling from qualified counselors and psychologists

There are other such programs too. Panic away is a book on panic attack written by Joe Barry McDonagh, another ex sufferer who did not give up when the conventional method failed. In his book, Joe Barry not only talked about eliminating anxiety attacks and generalized anxiety disorder, but of ways to bring down the anxiety level back to normal without the use of drugs or any other alternate therapies. He calls this ‘One Move technique’ and in his Panic Portal, he has talked about it vividly in layman’s language so that you and I can follow. There is no high flaunting words or phrases to follow. Everything is simple and clear-cut.

If this One Move Technique has put you off, wait. It is not hypnosis, nor is it any kind of Neuro-linguistic programming. To be frank, it is an advanced form of time tested cognitive behavioral therapy. Such therapies are combination of cognitive and behavioral therapy. Under cognitive therapy, your irrational thought process is channelized into a safe zone, while the behavioral therapy tries to control your irrational behavior. Joe Barry used this technique to remove the apprehension of a forthcoming attack to break the cycle of fear and in this way free the sufferer from panic attack for good.

Although there is no place for medication in Charles Linden and Joe Barry’s method, you can use some homeopathic medicines to help you to tackle these attacks while you are undergoing the treatments. PureCalm is one such medicine that comes as concentrated tincture and acts fast to promote calmness and soothe the tensed up nervous system in minutes. The medicines of the benzodiazepines group can also do that. However while these allopathic medicines are habit forming and may lead to abuse very soon, PureCalm is cent percent safe and what is more is totally non-addictive. You can take it on regular basis for an overall feeling of well-being or take it on as-is-required basis. Try it while you try others because whatever it will do, it will never harm you.

It is true that anxiety disorder is often accompanied by attention deficit hyperactive disorder and two of them together make life more miserable for the sufferer. The exact co-relation between the two entirely different disorders is not yet known, but researchers suspect that such disorders may coexist because of malfunctioning of certain chemical messengers in the brain. These are known as neurotransmitters and there are many types of them, each having a specific role to play. However, as they are all interconnected, failure of one affects the function of others. Without going into details, we can say that very often anxiety disorder are caused by the ADHD and in such a case the ADHD has to be cured to get respite from anxiety disorder.

That is why, if you have anxiety disorder, it often helps to look back to see if as a child you suffered from ADHD. If you did, there are chances that you still have it, but may be the symptoms are not so pronounced now. As you have grown older, you have unconsciously learnt to camouflage them. The disorder is there nonetheless. That however is beside the point. Let us now talk about the treatment procedure.  

To combat ADHD psycho stimulants like Adderall or Vyvanse are often administered. Such medicines increase norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, which in turn increases alertness, concentration and cognitive behavior and decreases fatigue. However, the aftereffects of these medicines in the long term or their effects at such tender age have not yet been ascertained properly. On the other hand, it is known that these medicines can be addictive and may give rise to other types of disorders by interfering with the neurotransmitter.

However, you can take up ADHD natural treatment procedure without fearing these addiction or adverse side effects as much for yourself as for your child. You can include certain herbs in the diet and take certain supplements to fulfill the deficiencies. However, this may not be feasible for a long time. Taking homeopathic and herbal medicines is more convenient. They come in the pill form or as tincture and many parents will vouch for them. Bright Spark and Focus are two such medicines. They can be taken simultaneously for better results.

While Bright Spark improves concentration and reduce impulsive behavior, Focus by improving the flow of oxygen and nutrients in the brain cells supports brain function including information processing and memory. It also helps to balance the mood and normal energy level. If however, you would like to keep your moods balanced in the time of pressure and stress, PureCalm is more suitable for the occasion. The same company that produces Bright Spark and Focus produces PureCalm. All these medications are 100% safe and non-addictive.

PureCalm comes in the form of concentrated tincture and therefore acts quickly to promote a calmed mood in minutes. Those who have regular anxiety attacks will do better if they keep the medication by their side all the while. Even if it cannot eliminate the anxiety attacks, it can at least make life better for you. In fact medicines can cure neither ADHD nor anxiety disorder, but they can keep the symptoms under control while you are taking therapies for complete eradication. If you are looking for alternate method of treatment, look for Linden Method UK on the web.

Linden Method UK is promoted by Charles Linden of UK. He has been suffering from different types of anxiety disorders since his childhood, but his condition became acute when he was twenty-three. With his wife Beth at his side, he tried different conventional and unconventional treatment procedures, but none could really help him. Finally, he decided to take it in his own hand and discovered a technique that uses the body’s own natural anxiety control centre to modify anxiety levels back down to a normal level.

Charles has a best seller called Stress Free In 30 Days to his credit too. Of course, not all anxiety disorder books1 are worth reading. However, Charles is different. As he writes from his own experience, it has its own benefit. The Times newspaper has added it to its ‘Must read’ lists and that is not without any reason.
•Firstly, it is very modestly priced and anybody and everybody can afford a paperback edition of the book.
•It is easy to read and easy to understand
•Each chapter focuses on a different stress relieving technique
•That makes it the most simple, structured and informative program available

Follow Charles to lead a stress free life.

Anxiety attacks cannot be described by mere adjectives like disabling, upsetting, frightening or even life threatening. They are all these and at the same time, much more. During the span of the attack, the sufferers feel that they are going to die or become crazy. When the attack is over, they live in dread of another attack. Therefore, it is natural that their first priority is to find out how to stop anxiety attacks for good.

Theoretically, it is easy to stop these attacks. The psychiatrists generally use a two pronged strategy:
- Pharmaceutical – Medicines of the benzodiazepines group are generally used for rapid relief of symptoms, while antidepressants like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are prescribed for long-term relief.
- Physiotherapy – Mainly two schools of thoughts are followed. Some prefer cognitive behavior therapy and others have more faith on panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy. While the former tries to control the irrational behavior by channelizing the irrational thoughts into safe mode, the later goes deep into your psychic to expose the hidden fears and malfunctioning defense mechanism.

The above treatment procedure may run simultaneously. However, in many cases where the condition is not that acute, the psychiatrist depend more on the psychotherapy, life style changes and self help tricks to combat anxiety attacks. They know that the medications can at the most control the symptoms, but the real cure must come from within. However, psychotherapy requires many sittings and consequently a lot of time and money. Recovery also depends on the skill of the therapist and therefore it does not always work.

It did not work for Charles Linden either. He suffered for many years without any respite. What was unfortunate for him is lucky for many of us. He discovered a unique process that he later named the Linden Method and 130,000 recovered sufferers have testified for it. Through Linden Method anxiety can be eliminated in a very short period in a drug free way and what is more, you need not empty your bank account for that. Just buy the program once and get a full refund if you are not satisfied within one year. Moreover, the system boasts of a twenty-four hour support system and therefore you will never feel left out or on your own.

Joe Barry McDonagh is another such recovered sufferer who discovered his own method after failing to get help from mainstream medication and psychotherapy. He noted down his experience in a book form and named it Panic Away. Moreover, when he wrote the book, Joe Barry had you and me in his mind and so he had written it in an easy to understand format. No complicated term has been used to confuse your mind and to show off his knowledge.

He has not only described the symptoms in easy language, but has put in many real-life examples to prove his points too. He then goes on to explain what causes the anxiety attacks and how to stop them. Very concisely, he says that the anxiety attacks are caused by the fear of another anxiety attack. Each attack is so devastating that once it subsides, the sufferers get no relief at all, but are left more demoralized, apprehending more such attacks. A vicious circle is thus formed. One attack causes another attack and this goes on forever. Whoever wants to cure himself has to break this cycle of fear. Medicines can only keep the symptoms in control; they cannot help you to break it.

Charles Linden too has talked about it, but in a different language. In fact, all good books on anxiety attacks speak about the same loop and the need to break it. However, you ought to read such books even if you follow the conventional mode of treatment. The psychiatrist may not have time to explain everything in details and therefore if there is something you want to know, these books on anxiety may be able to provide the answer.

What is more, these books on anxiety with all their case histories tell you that you are not at all abnormal. There are thousands others suffering from the same ailments. It will help if you highlight the sentences or even paragraphs, which show a similarity to your condition and have the pages bookmarked. Always keep such books by your side and if you feel the panic rising inside, you can open the book start reading. It will make you feel much better and will help you to quell the fear before it becomes full-blown without the use of drugs. In the end, you will surly learn to master your fears and lead a normal life.

Treating anxiety disorder does not always mean taking some allopathic medications that have more adverse effect than good or spending all your hard-earned money on psychotherapy without getting any results. Through natural treatments anxiety can be cured more safely as well as more effectively. Only you have to know how to do that. It is true that many anxiety-related sites make impossible claims; that their only interest is to make money for themselves. However, not all apparently impossible claims are rubbish. There are many genuine ones too.

Take the example of anxiety books that you find on the internet. They mostly make tall claims, but do not tell you much about their methods in their preface. You have to buy them to know what is in it and in the process, you may end up being cheated. The writers of such books do not have many options either. If they reveal all their techniques in the preface only, who is going to buy the book? Not me, for sure!

These books are generally written by ex-sufferers. These people had anxiety attacks on regular basis and suffered terribly for years before taking things in their own hands. Yes, they had undergone all types of conventional treatments too, but did not get relief from them. At the end, they started researching on different methods of treatments and the more persistent ones came up with a unique method that worked for them. Once they cured their own anxiety disorders, they decided to write down their experiences in the form of a book so that others may get benefit from it. May be one or two such books will turn out to be a fraud, but definitely not all.

Of all the anxiety books, Panic Away, written by Joe Barry McDonagh,himself an ex-sufferer, is worth mentioning. In his Panic Portal, he has shown how to cure anxiety disorders for good using a ‘one move technique’. Well, this is no tall claim. It is true that each panic attack leaves the patient apprehending more such attacks and these apprehensions give rise to more attacks, which in turn give rise to more apprehensions. It is indeed a vicious circle and one only has to break that cycle of fear to get rid of the anxiety attacks for good. It is indeed a ‘one move technique’!

Charles Linden is also another such name. He suffered simultaneously from panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and agoraphobia and if you are suffering from one of these, you should realize how badly he had to suffer! However, he did not give up when traditional methods of treatment failed, but kept on looking for newer ways and the result is what we now call Linden Method. It is a drug free way to cure your anxiety disorder and though there is one year’s money back guarantee, you do not have to wait that long for results. You will start receiving the benefits from the very beginning.

As the technique is to break the cycle of fear, you do not really need medications to get rid of your anxiety attacks, but one has to agree medicinal help comes handy at times. Some excellent herbal and homeopathic medicines can relieve the effects of stress, worries and nervous tension if taken regularly. The Triple Complex Nerve Tonic prepared from bio-chemic ingredients like Ferrum Phos, Kali Phos and Mag Phos is one of them. The company’s own home page says that if taken regularly, it can

• Relieve the effects of stress and worry
• Reduce everyday nervous tension
• Calm frazzled nerves and anxiety
• Support a naturally balanced mood
• Support systemic balance on a cellular level

PureCalm is another such medication. It is a homeopathic medicine sold in a highly concentrated tincture form. It acts fast and can bring about a calmed mood in minutes. Therefore, if you take it at the onset of the attack, it will stop the attack from becoming full blown and give you immediate relief. If taken regularly it can improve the overall feeling of wellness and keep the complete nervous system healthy.

MindSoothe is another medicine formulated from extracts of herbs like St. John’s Wart and passionflower. It is available in the capsule form. It not only controls anxiety, but also elevates depression so that a well-adjusted temperament can be maintained. If necessary, you can have three of them together. It will help you to keep a balanced mood and a positive mental attitude while you try to eliminate your anxiety disorder through Linden Method or Joe Barry’s ‘one move technique’. Let us keep out thumbs up.

Treatment for Anxiety attacks: There are several methods of treatment for anxiety attacks. You can get counseling from your family doctors or counselors. Making relevant changes in your lifestyle can help you overcome your problems. You can make small changes in your lifestyle like:

•    Taking a Yoga class near your place.

•    Limit your intake of Nicotine. You can reduce your intake of smoking. This will help you to reduce your anxiety level and calm your nerves.

•    Limit your caffeine level intake by drinking less tea or coffee per day.

•    Proper sleeping habits help your mind to relax.
One of the best  available  treatment for anxiety attacks  is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This technique uses the paradigm, “The way you think, affects the way you do things.” It helps to change the way that you think, when you are in a tense situation. This involves

•    Learning to relax through new breathing techniques, exercises.

•    Stop creating negative thoughts and replacing them with more balanced views.

•    Start realizing the reality of the situation and getting things done in a systematic way rather than being fearful.
Group therapy is also used in cognitive behavior technique. These include acting, video recording and observing, and other exercises that help you to cope up with the anxious world. These therapies help you to prepare for situations that you fear most! It helps the patient to gain confidence and work more comfortable in real society.

Panic disorder Medicine: Panic disorder medicine which  are used to relieve the symptoms of social anxiety, but it is not a complete cure. It is very helpful in addition to taking the therapy for social anxiety or social phobia. They are

•    Beta blockers help in blocking the flow of adrenaline when you feel anxious. Though they do not stop the emotional symptoms of anxiety, they help to curb physical factors like sweating, trembling hands, voice change and rapid heartbeat.

•    Antidepressants are helpful when the condition is severe and unbearable.

•    Benzodiazepines are fast acting anti-anxiety medicines, but they are sedative and addictive in nature. So they are used only in extreme cases.

Though these medications may relieve some of your symptoms they have their own side effects and risks! Talking to your medical counselor may help you about the right type of medication that you must take. Biological contributors to depression are elevated stress hormones, immune system suppression, nutritional deficiencies, some abnormal activities in certain parts of the brain and shrinking brain cells. Social and psychological factors such as loneliness, low self esteem, poor diet and lack of exercises play a big role in depression of the mind.

Doctors believe that if the panic disorder medicine if taken at the right time  are life saving! Suppose you have severe depression that’s interfering with your ability to function, then taking medicines is the best choice. Using medicines with additional therapies is a better strategy with no or lesser side effects.

Side effects of medicines: In our Brain there is a chemical called, “serotonin.”This helps to regulate our moods. It helps in regulating our digestion, sleep and other body activities. These antidepressants contain serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s). They create common problems like drowsiness, sexual problems, nausea and sleeping problems. They may lead to bone loss in adults leading to risk of falling in adults. For some these may be temporary, for they may become continue to persist.

When you take your medications there are few things to consider.
Question to ask your Mental health professional

•    Am I taking the right prescribed medicine and how long should I continue with the medication?

•    Will I be able to handle the side effects?

•    What non drug treatments will be helpful for me?

•    What type of therapy will be helpful to me with additional to this therapy?
Questions to ask your Doctor

•    What are the side effects of the medicine that you are prescribing?

•    What type of food should I avoid taking?

•    The time duration for which I should take this medication

•    Will there be adverse effects if you stop taking this medication?

If you use medication follow these rules. Visit your family doctor and go the psychiatrist he tells you to go for treatment. Take your medicines regularly and watch for the side effects. Don’t stop your medicines abruptly. Use psychotherapy, to help you remove and balance your negative thoughts and actions.
Today we live in a fast world filled with stress energies! We should help our fellow human beings to reduce their social anxieties and help them live a less stressful life!

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Dr. Granet speaks with leading expert, Dr. Murray Stein on Social Anxiety Disorder

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A nigh popular saying among first-time public speakers is “I’m having butterflies in my stomach”; a normalcy but if the butterflies keep fluttering even after the first few occasions, it might be the more serious case of being afflicted with the social anxiety disorder condition.

Anxiety is a natural biological reaction in everyone, actually. It is a trait that appears in us even from the early days of our being. Surely one can remember (or at least feign to do so) the anxious feelings we have in venturing outside the safety zone of the crib.

Later on in life, the same feeling appears in a more vivid form when one ventures out to meet others. The first social contact with another is an important aspect of life and it is these very experiences which would shape our future and how the person will turn out.

Are we born an introvert? Experts might just differ on this, but logically, this character trait is developed through the years. My thoughts are that people are naturally extroverts. We cry out for attention from the moment we were born to this world. As babies, we crave for love and attention, and go all out to get this experiences, hence our ability to grow and mature within our surroundings.

Nurtured incorrectly, this very craving for attention, for acceptance, could well be the catalyst for future social anxiety disorders in teens and adults. Being shy is, of course, natural when we meet new people, some of whom we would eventually adopt as our friends or even lovers. Introverts too, could blend into long lasting friendship once the initial shyness barrier is broken.

This, unfortunately, is not the case for those afflicted with social anxiety disorder conditions. They tended to look for extreme signs of acceptance from others. They fear even the littlest signs of disapproval from those around them. Butterflies are no longer just fluttering in their stomachs but flapping like deranged birds trapped in a cage in their mind.

The very need for approval and acceptance would somehow present itself physically. It might be stuttering, sweating palms, blushing, and in some cases, a loss of speech. Imagine the regressive nature of such disorders as the physical manifestations of the anxiety felt by a person so afflicted would be the very thing which would cause them to retreat even deeper within.

To treat social anxiety disorders, one needs to address the core issue of why exactly they are craving for acceptance in the first place. Someone afflicted with such condition might just struggle to provide a coherent answer to this question as they themselves might not know what causes them to freeze when confronted with such situations.

It is important to show them that anxiety is an important facet of social development. That it helps encourage one to get to know the myriad of personalities that differs from one person to the other. That it is a normal feeling to have. They have to be impressed with the fact that everyone will have their respective anxious moments; that what is more important is to accept that it is what defines us as being capable of an upwards learning curve by surpassing these very barriers created by our own psyche.

Once this is dealt with, then it might just be far easier to see what it was which had shaped this extreme timidity and shyness in the patient. This cannot be done in a single session. For all we know, the very reason and cause of the condition might never be discovered at all, but know that the very act of talking enhances the said patients self importance.

This is possibly the most important step needed in curing social anxiety disorder cases. How someone views his self worth would mould the threshold of his acceptance of others. This self worth needs strengthening to enable someone so afflicted to brush past the fear of rejection. “So What” must be the rallying call drummed into them so that they can finally see that everyone has the very same feelings when they are confronted with something new.

Medication helps, but by curing the very being, the very core, of someone afflicted with social anxiety disorder, he or she would grow out of the cocoon of needing acceptance and approved of far more permanently.