News and insights about GAD, depression, phobias, OCD and panic attacks
Image via Wikipedia We all need to eat but the problem starts when you comfort eat when you are anxious. Stress and anxiety can be a bad aspect of your life if you react to it by overeating. This can lead to weight gain and health problems as well. I was one …
Did you know you can breathe your way through anxiety? As you get older you no longer get the same amount of oxygen to your lungs as you used to when you were younger. If you shallow breathe like I do then you will build up more carbon dioxide in your lungs. This does not help you when you get anxious and can actually lead you to a panic attack. When you are anxious you also rapid breathe which not only …
Image via Wikipedia Many of us worry about our ability meet a loan or some other debt repayment and this causes debt stress. It has become so easy for us to pay for what we want with credit cards whereas in the past we may have saved for it. Negative stress from money worries is blamed for all sorts of physical ailments such as hypertension, insomnia, obesity and hives to mention just a few. Did you know that you are more likely to have health problems than those…
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is commonly known as GAD and it affects many millions of people in the United States and around the world. More women than men have this anxiety disorder and the age group it affects is broad, ranging from childhood to middle age, so it really can affect anyone at any age. GAD usually occurs with another problem which can include an addiction for example and so that has to be addressed first before treating the Generalized Anxiety Disorder …
Smoking is something I thankfully never did take up and according to new research about smoking and anxiety, it has been found that smokers are at a much greater risk of having anxiety attacks. A study that was done in the United States out of Columbia University studied anxiety attacks among teens in New York. It was found that there is a connection between teenage smokers and their emotional health especially in regard to anxiety attacks. Smoking is a habit that almost always begins in youth, usually before age 16 so these teens had their first interview when they were 16 …
I control my anxiety and subsequent panic attacks by keeping my stress levels down. This can be a challenge as you don’t always know that stress and anxiety are building until it is too late and you are showing signs like, in my case, talking quickly, being agitated and getting upset at …