Anxiety Panic Attacks

“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…

If you experience such a great degree of discomfort that you aren’t able to begin in a ‘live’ setting, try a virtual setting. Let’s say you love travel or gardening. There are hundreds of thousands of forums and message boards related to these topics. Get online and search out several. Give yourself a chance to look them over and get a sense of the participants. Look for a friendly group. Sign up and start posting. The first step in overcoming social anxiety is to socialize. Even if you’re not face-to-face, you’re still interacting with other people.

Don’t stop here! Once you’ve become comfortable in this virtual group, it’s time to widen your horizons. Your virtual experience shows that you are interesting to other people and can have lively exchanges and make friends. Overcoming social anxiety requires that you recognize that you have valuable information and good personality characteristics to share. Join a live support group in your community. When you go to your meeting, remember that the participants are just like you and the group leader knows just how to draw people out in non-threatening ways. Have fun!

When you feel comfortable in your support group, invite one or two members with whom you have developed a rapport out for coffee or a walk in the park. You’ll soon find it’s not nearly as scary as you once supposed. You may even find yourself talking easily and enjoying being in the company of others.

Now for perhaps the biggest step in overcoming your social anxiety: host a lunch or dinner in your home. Your party doesn’t need to be large, just three or four people will do. By now, your level of confidence has grown. No more sweaty palms or heart palpitations at the mere thought of such an event. You’ve got enough experience and support in successfully interacting socially to take this big step.

All along the way, keep a journal of each of these steps towards overcoming social anxiety. Write down your thoughts, list positive interchanges and things that people seem to like about you. Believe me, the list may become long. Your journal may also become a cherished keepsake of your successful journey. Good luck!

“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…

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.