Anxiety and Depression
Insomnia Anxiety
Recently I signed up to take the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT. The LSAT is not a test of your accumulated knowledge, but a test of how your brain works. Can you make logical deductions Can you unravel word problems, and keep your wits about you under the strain of a timed test
It was intimidating, and as a result I suffered from Insomnia Anxiety. I spent the week before the test taking practice tests, acing most of them, and should have been relaxed and confident. Instead I was unsure and filled with self-doubt, unable to sleep regularly or concentrate when I most needed to. I was so anxious that I completely psyched myself out and, on test day, bombed miserably.
Insomnia Anxiety is to blame. My inability to still my mind and complete the task at hand was all because of Insomnia Anxiety. When attempting a difficult task, you need to be rested and clear-headed. Instead I was as exhausted as I’d ever been, having gone more than a week without ever sleeping more than two hours a night. I was unable to concentrate because of that, and as the test went on my anxiety kept building and building til I couldn’t even hold a thought in my head. Instead, all I could think of were the repercussions of my failure to score well on the test.
Obviously I was suceptible to the pressures of the situation. We all are, to one degree or another, and it’s important to recognize that in order to rise above what are essentially self-inflicted wounds.
Insomnia Anxiety and depression go hand-in-hand, and operate as a sort of vicious cycle. The more anxious you are, the less likely it is that you’ll be able to fall asleep. The less sleep you get, the less rested you’ll be in the morning and the less likely you are to perform well at work, in school, or just at life in general. That causes two kinds of anxiety – the anxiety of potential failure, as well as the bio-chemical anxiety of simply not having gotten enough sleep.
Both of these can then be the cause of depression. The general loginess caused by sleeplessness can morph into depression in-and-of itself; combine it with anxiety and self-doubt, and the process with progress much faster.
So it’s important to recognize the early signs of insomni anxiety, discuss them with your doctor and treat them as necessary. It could be as simple as changing your diet or exercise routine, or in some cases can be solved by medication. Either way, it’s not something to ignore.
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Surviving Acute Anxiety Disorder
Lets face it the modern world is a very anxious place. The rise of psychological disorders has been one of the largest health crises of the 21st century, with a vast number of new and resurgent diseases dragging down brains across the globe. One of the most prevalent is anxiety disorders mental conditions in which the bodys natural panic reflex kicks in under inappropriate circumstances, removing the sufferers ability to deal properly with the stresses of life. Arguably the worst of these disorders is Acute Anxiety Disorder. The afflicted are seized by full-bore panic attacks when triggered, with quickening heartbeat, sweating, dizziness and multiple other physical indicators.
Acute Anxiety Disorder attacks can last from five to twenty minutes, but many sufferers can be seized by waves of attacks over the period of several hours, dropping in and out of the anxious state multiple times. The outward symptomatic display of these attacks can often lead to social stigma, which can in turn lead to additional attacks. As a result, an estimated thirty percent of acute anxiety sufferers are agoraphobic as well, avoiding the outside world for fear of public panic attacks.
The estimate for panic disorder sufferers is as high as 1.7 percent, but the disorder is not necessarily a lifelong condition. It typically begins to show in young adulthood, with a large percentage more women than men being diagnosed. The regularity of panic attacks varies greatly from patient to patient, with many going months and even years between attacks. Episodes can be triggered by a variety of factors, both psychological and physical. There are some hypotheses that substance abuse can be a major cause of Acute Anxiety Disorder as well new studies show that smoking cigarettes can play a major part in triggering attacks, as can long-term alcohol use.
Acute Anxiety Disorder can be successfully treated with psychiatric care and medication, as well as more organic methods. Cognitive behavioral therapy can be used to assist sufferers in dealing with the root causes of their panic attacks by overcoming the fears and traumas that trigger anxiety attacks, the disorder can be mitigated. If medication is necessary, both antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs can be prescribed. One treatment that has proven effective is the study and practice of diaphragmatic breathing techniques like the ones found in yoga or some meditation methods. By focusing the consciousness on the intake and exhalation of the breath, the mind is quieted and the anxiety symptoms fade. In addition, changes to diet and exercise habits can lessen the frequency and severity of attacks.
This disorder is not one that is well-understood, even after years of study, but medical science is moving closer to understanding the causes and treatments of Acute Anxiety Disorder. One can only hope that a cure comes soon for all of those afflicted with this traumatic and embarrassing condition.
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The Benefits Of Stress Management
You may think that the benefits of Stress Management are only good for clearing your mind of the things that bother you the most. Much stress comes from a job or career, but almost anything in life can be stressful. Children are a common source of stress, as are personal problems and even drama in the family. This can add up to a person feeling like they are a bundle of nerves and that they may just lose their mind at any moment. Learning how to manage stress takes care of some of that, but it has other benefits as well.
The most obvious things that Stress Management does it that it takes some of the steam out of worries, no matter where those worries come from. This cannot take away things that are bothersome, but it can change the way that you deal with those things. That means you will learn to see problems in a different light, and you will also learn Stress Management techniques that show you how to solve some of your issues rather than carry them around with you forever. When stress goes down, you are going to embrace these ways of managing stress for a lifetime.
Stress can also have a bad effect on the body, and most dont realize this until they have a nervous breakdown, or even a heart attack. Stress of the mind puts stress on the body. This means that you are essentially and continually in a state of fight or flight. That can really take a toll on anyone at any time. After a while, your body simply cannot handle it any longer. Some stress is good, but Stress Management can help you eliminate some of the bad stress to keep your body from freaking out on you. It can even help you live longer.
Stress Management can also help in other areas of your life. You may be so stressed out that you are snapping at and nit-picking everything and everyone in your life. This can mean others feel your stress as well, and they start doing the same things. That is not good in any relationship whether personal or family related. When you go through courses to help you manage stress, it is going to benefit your relationships in ways that you may not have imagined. In fact, you may never have known that the stress was affecting those around you until you go through Stress Management and you see the difference it makes.
“How To Stop Anxiety Attacks” is — a series of cutting-edge strategies that helps YOU to break your cycles of nervousness and anxiety, overcome anxiety and panic attacks for the rest of your life, and return to a happy, carefree life…