anxiety disorder
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- CX
Do any of you have experience with an anxiety disorder or anxiety attacks? Has anyone overcome it, preferably without pills? I'll post my story and reason when I get a chance.
- tara|gee0
cut out sugar white flour all processed food basically
- BonSeff0
and stop spankin it
- CX0
Why and where did you learn that?
- CX0
That must be it. Thanks for the enlightening advice BonSeff.
- tara|gee0
my mom did it
- tara|gee0
ballenced out suagr levels in her or somethign - but ill tell u life was mcuh esier fo rme ;)
- brundlefly0
yeah, cutting back on sugars, and eating whole grain breads, and maintaining a good diet can make an enormous change in the way you feel...
most people that suffer from panic attacks are actually suffering from some other sort of ailment, low blood sugar, diabetes type 2 thyroid issues....all of these can make you feel very panicked when you are just actually sugar crashing or the like, and all of them can be controlled thru diet.
try adjusting your diet and lessening perhaps alcohol & sugars intake, made a massive difference for me :)
- Mal0
I had it pretty bad but it's beatablle without drugs.
- Nac0
Doctor says, relax during stressful times, and lot of exercise
- CX0
So you've had it brundlefly? How did you stop yours Mal?
I got mine from a reaction to Vicodin after I got my wisdom teeth removed and probably extreme built up stress. I just woke up one night feeling like I was having a heart attack. It came back a few times during the week. I found that beer made it go away and it seemed to only come when I felt more stressed. The doctor said my heart was fine and it was a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. He gave me a bunch of valiums to calm down before this Prozac related crap he gave me kicks in. He wanted me to take Prozac for 6 months and then ween off of it. I'm basically refusing to take any of it. Especially Prozac. BTW, I never get depressed and don't want to mess with that part of my brain anyway or depend on some crap drug to feel normal. It's been extremely mild anyway since I stopped thinking I had heart disease or something. I'm taking vitamins, etc. I've pretty much realized that it's all in your head and your own fear feeds it and and makes it worse.
I'm thinking of ordering the linden method.
http://www.linden-method.com/
It sounds like it works well. I wish someone would put it on P2P.
- loudubs0
1001 Heart Attacks: A Memoir
- Mimio0
Regimented exercise is the only thing that's worked for me.
- ozhanlion0
read buddha, put all of your bad thoughts and characteristics off. Believe you are purist.
stay away from all kinds of drugs.
That's your life man, you own it.so please feel good.
- driftlab0
Yes. For years, I struggled with generalized anxiety disorder. Tara is right on - it was related to blood sugar issues for me. I've been off the (evil) medications now for a while and these things are making life wonderful again:
1. prayer - good meditative prayer
2. healthy eating - avoiding simple carbs and fatty stuff (turns to sugar)
3. getting somewhat consistent excercise (usually on the tread mill).I'm still inconcistent with these, but moving towards being more disciplined. I have to be - no choice. I refuse to feel bad and be on the medicine anymore.
- paulrand0
I've had it in the past- a few relatively short (less than a week), relatively acute (racing heart beat, little sleep, no appetite) episodes, and a much longer but relatively less intense period of generalized anxiety.
My method of dealing with it was/is pretty simple: acceptance. Tthat may sound flip, but I think that much anxiety involves trying to escape what is happening in the moment and setting up a negative feeback loop of "fear of fear" .
also, it might be good to at least temporarily avoid caffeine and alcohol.
- rasko40
a good old friend of mine used to suffer them quite bad, he was recommended to stop smoking weed and get a more regular sleep pattern.. not sure if it worked though because he dissapeared one day and I haven't seen him since, that was 9 years ago. he phoned me out of the blue a couple of times tho.
- nessdog0
My mother suffers from panic attacks (and other nervous problems)... she pumps her body full of drugs, but i don't really agree with that.
I used to get the occasional attack a few years ago (after a couple of deaths in the family), so my doctor taught me how to breath properly. You may look ghey, but it's better than thinking you're about to die. It's a form of yoga breathing called Pranayama. (i'll have a look for a link)
- TheTaco0
Have you tried yoga?
hehe
- driftlab0
Oh, and spend some time in the book of Matthew... Chapter 6.