My Anxiety Cure

Every individual feels stressed or worried about something. Anxiety is the body’s natural reaction to stress. Anxiety comes up in situations that trigger the release of emotions – hectic work schedule; writing a speech that will be delivered in a few minutes; studying for a final examination; or getting ready for an interview. Your feeling anxious in these situations is perfectly normal.

Anxiety is not always a bad thing as it helps a person cope with stress. It makes you alert and attentive; it drives you to take action. But if the anxiety you feel becomes excessive, overwhelming, dreadful and irrational on ordinary days, you have already developed an anxiety disorder.

The physical symptoms of anxiety disorder are the following: feeling of breathlessness, fast pounding of the heart, chest pains, and sickness of the stomach, severe headache and nausea. The emotional symptoms of the disorder are known to be the following: irritability, feeling of overwhelming fear; expecting the worst to happen; expecting danger to arise; and blankness of the mind. The most common effect of anxiety disorder is panic attack. It is an abrupt gush of overwhelming worry and fear.

he attack may come with no identifiable cause and without warning. The symptoms of panic attack are more serious than the symptoms of anxiety. People who are under a panic attack think they are going to die; to have a heart attack; or to go insane. They usually fall irrational and they are unable to think clearly. Anxiety and panic attacks impede in the normal day-to-day activities of patients. This is the reason why they should be treated the soonest possible time.

Anxiety disorder is treatable. In fact, there are natural ways to anxiety treatment. If you wish to treat or prevent panic attacks from happening again, you may choose the natural remedies to curing anxiety attack. However, if you have a more serious case of panic attacks, you should seek the help of your doctor.

The natural ways of anxiety treatment are the following:

- When you are under an attack and you feel you’re running out of air, cup both your nose and your mouth with a paper bag to slow down your breathing. Slowly breathe in and out of the paper bag so that your oxygen levels will return to normal.

- To prevent anxiety attacks from recurring, it is best that you change your lifestyle. Exercise regularly to burn the extra fat stored in your body. Excess fat is bad for your heart. Choose food that will keep your heart healthy. Quit smoking and alcohol drinking as these rise your blood levels.  Toss the processed foods you have in your refrigerators.

- Make sure that you do not worry more than you should. Do not bottle up your emotions. If you have problems and issues, discuss them with a family member or a counselor. When you suppress emotions, you will feel anxious and stressed out. Let them go; you deserve a break.

- When you are under an attack, make sure to focus yourself on something else. Find an outlet; do not let the panic eat you. Try listening to soft music or humming to yourself so that the panic will diminish.