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Signs of anxiety | recognize the symptoms

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dark feelings How do I know I have anxiety? You may be showing the signs of anxiety if the feelings or behaviors below affect your everyday life: Worrying about everything Feeling negative Feeling restless or irritable Find it hard to do everyday activities like work and study Lack of concentration Difficulty sleeping and/or relaxing Avoidance behavior Physical symptoms like heart palpitations Irrational thinking Have muscle pain …

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Preventing panic attacks

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Positive Mind Map Print this page, stick it somewhere you can easily see it, and look at it each day as a positive mind map to reinforce what you need to feel about yourself and your life. Staying positive and fearless goes a long way towards preventing panic attacks.

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Panic attacks and how they start

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Listen to the video below as it explains how I felt when having a panic attack but I didn’t know what to do then.   Eating in restaurants always made me anxious and this is where my panic attacks started. When I looked at this video I identified immediately with how I felt when I first suffered from panic attacks. What it didn’t talk about though was what I call ‘the wave’ which comes with panic attacks. I used to…

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Living a Stress Free Life

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Can you really lead a stress-free life? Probably not completely as living a stress free life is not a reasonable goal in this high tech world. Dealing with everyday stresses is a more achievable goal. Look at people in your lives that deal with stress well. These are the people who…

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Relaxation Video for you to watch

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Relaxation is so important in keeping anxiety at bay but it can be quite difficult to maintain.  I work at keeping my stress levels down and music I found is great for this.  This is a great video and it has great music.  Please take some time out to put on some headphones, sit in a relaxed position, turn off your cell phone, close the doors and listen to this video. This is a 26 minute video so you will definitely feel yourself relaxing. Save it to your computer and you can listen to…

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Does Prozac really give Anxiety Relief?

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Image via Wikipedia Prozac (Fluoxetine Hydrochloride) is a antidepressant and is considered by many to be the best anti anxiety medicine out there and that is probably because it is the most popular.  Prozac was a phenomenon when it first came out.  Prozac is an antidepressant that belongs to the group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. Prozac and its generic equivalent, fluoxetine, is manufactured in scored tablets and capsules of 10, 20 and 40 mg.  It is also available in a liquid oral solution.  It is also often used for Obsessive …

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Eat Oily Fish to Boost Memory

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If you want to boost memory then eat your oily fish. Just increase your intake of oily fish like salmon, trout, sardines, herring and mackerel to increase your Vitamin A, D, selenium and Omega 3. Oily fish does this by preventing the formation of plaques. The image says it all. How are you going to include oily fish in your diet?  Don’t think memory problems can’t affect you. As we all grow older we need to boost

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Public Speaking Anxiety | How to overcome it

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Giving a speech  or presenting before a group, whether the group is a thousand or just ten, qualifies as one of most people’s biggest fears. It is not uncommon to find a person who is terrified at the prospect of having to speak to a roomful of people. But why do we fear speaking in front of others so very much? Psychologists believe that it is not really public speaking that make people experience so much STRESS but the fear of making a mistake in front of others. Public speaking anxiety can however be conquered…

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4 tips to reduce divorce stress

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Getting a divorce is a very stressful time in a person’s life.  It is a bit like losing a person to death but still having them around, which can be in itself quite distressing, and of course there is the hurt and/or betrayal which one side feels. When I went through this many years ago I must admit I didn’t do well.  I was very angry and this anger actually was not good for me or my family and I came to …

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Autogenic Therapy | What is it?

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Ive never heard of Autogenic Therapy until recently and I’m sure most people haven’t.  Well what is it? Autogenic Therapy (also called Autogenic Training) is a relaxation technique involving self suggestion which was developed by the German psychiatrist, Johannes Schultz and first published in 1932.  It is a powerful and proven deep relaxation technique similar to mediation, which enables you to relax your body and calm your mind quickly.  Autogenic therapy is one of the simplest and most effective ways to activate the …

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Overcoming panic attacks

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Moving on after panic | living a normal life I really cant say that I am cured from, and that I have succeeded in overcoming panic attacks. If I let my anxiety levels rise then it is a possibility that I may have another panic attack. The difference is now …

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