Treating Anxiety & Depression
Treating Anxiety & Depression Naturally
An unexpected illness, especially a sudden diagnosis with a life threatening illness, can bring on extreme anxiety. Losing a job, a close family member, or being unable to get relief from an auto-immune illness, can cause deep depression and anxiety. Having money or friends and family is not a deterrent to anxiety and depression.
Fear and anxiety are part of life. You may feel anxious before you take a test or walk down a dark street. This kind of anxiety is useful - it can make you more alert or careful. It usually ends soon after you are out of the situation that caused it. But for millions of people worldwide, the anxiety does not go away, and gets worse over time. They may have chest pains or nightmares. They may even be afraid to leave home.
There are several methods that people use to treat their depression and Anxiety disorders. Here on this site we mainly share info on natural solutions, natural remedies that help with these conditions. The thinking is that most people usually have already tried conventional methods, so here we introduce you to alternative methods.
People have anxiety disorders of all types including:
Panic disorder Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It causes panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of terror when there is no real danger. You may feel as if you are losing control. You may also have physical symptoms, such as
- Fast heartbeat
- Chest or stomach pain
- Breathing difficulty
- Weakness or dizziness
- Sweating
- Feeling hot or a cold chill
- Tingly or numb hands
Panic attacks can happen anytime, anywhere, and without warning. You may live in fear of another attack and may avoid places where you have had an attack. For some people, fear takes over their lives and they cannot leave their homes.
Panic disorder is more common in women than men. It usually starts when people are young adults. Sometimes it starts when a person is under a lot of stress. Most people get better with treatment. Therapy can show you how to recognize and change your thinking patterns before they lead to panic. Medicines can also help.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder. If you have OCD, you have frequent, upsetting thoughts called obsessions. To try to control the thoughts, you feel an overwhelming urge to repeat certain rituals or behaviors. These are called compulsions.
Examples of obsessions are a fear of germs or a fear of being hurt. Compulsions include washing your hands, counting, checking on things, or cleaning. With OCD, the thoughts and rituals cause distress and get in the way of your daily life.
Researchers think brain circuits may not work properly in people who have OCD. It tends to run in families. The symptoms often begin in children or teens. Treatments include therapy, medicines, or both. One type of therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, is useful for treating OCD.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a real illness. You can get PTSD after living through or seeing a traumatic event, such as war, a hurricane, sexual assault, physical abuse, or a bad accident. PTSD makes you feel stressed and afraid after the danger is over. It affects your life and the people around you.
PTSD can cause problems like
- Flashbacks, or feeling like the event is happening again
- Trouble sleeping or nightmares
- Feeling alone
- Angry outbursts
- Feeling worried, guilty, or sad
PTSD starts at different times for different people. Signs of PTSD may start soon after a frightening event and then continue. Other people develop new or more severe signs months or even years later. PTSD can happen to anyone, even children.
Treatment may include talk therapy, medicines, or both. Treatment might take 6 to 12 weeks. For some people, it takes longer.
Phobias
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger.
There are many specific phobias. Acrophobia is a fear of heights. Agoraphobia is a fear of public places, and claustrophobia is a fear of closed-in places. If you become anxious and extremely self-conscious in everyday social situations, you could have a social phobia. Other common phobias involve tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, animals and blood.
People with phobias try to avoid what they are afraid of. If they cannot, they may experience
- Panic and fear
- Rapid heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
- Trembling
- A strong desire to get away
Phobias usually start in children or teens, and continue into adulthood. The causes of specific phobias are not known, but they sometimes run in families.
Treatment helps most people with phobias. Options include medicines, therapy or both.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Treatment can involve medicines, therapy or both. Some people use Psychotherapy, conventional medications or both. Some tough it out in silence.
Is it true that certain foods worsen anxiety and others have a calming effect?
Anxiety symptoms can make you feel unwell. Coping with anxiety can be a challenge and often requires making lifestyle changes. There are diet changes that can help relieve anxiety, watching what you eat will certainly help.
Have you ever tried these steps?:
- Eat a breakfast that includes some protein. Eating protein at breakfast can help you feel fuller longer and help keep your blood sugar steady so that you have more energy as you start your day.
- Eat complex carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are thought to increase the amount of serotonin in your brain, which has a calming effect. Eat foods rich in complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains — for example, oatmeal, quinoa, whole-grain breads and whole-grain cereals. Steer clear of foods that contain simple carbohydrates, such as sugary foods and drinks.
- Drink plenty of purified water. Even mild dehydration can affect your mood.
- Limit or avoid alcohol. The immediate effect of alcohol may be calming. But as alcohol is processed by your body, it can make you edgy. Alcohol can also interfere with sleep.
- Limit or avoid caffeine. Avoid caffeinated beverages. They can make you feel jittery and nervous and can interfere with sleep.
- Pay attention to food sensitivities. In some people, certain foods or food additives can cause unpleasant physical reactions. In certain people, these physical reactions may lead to shifts in mood, including irritability or anxiety.
- Try to eat healthy, balanced meals. Healthy eating is important for overall physical and mental health. Eat lots of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, and don't overeat. It may also help to eat wild fish high in omega-3 fatty acids, such as wild caught salmon, on a regular basis.
Changes to your diet may make some difference to your general mood or sense of well-being, but they're not a substitute for treatment. Lifestyle changes, such as improving sleep habits, increasing social support, using stress-reduction techniques and getting regular exercise, also may help. Be patient, as it may take some time before these changes have an effect on your anxiety.
If your anxiety is severe or interferes with your day-to-day activities or enjoyment of life, you may need counseling (psychotherapy), medication or other treatment. Some people refuse all of those.
Try Using Natural Food Supplements:
Mood Supplements help maintain emotional equillibrium. They promote a bright, positive outlook, helping to dispel the blues and doldrums.** In addition, mood supplements are known to:
Stress Management and sleep products are designed to support natural relaxation and rejuvenating rest. These products may also help to:
Essential Oils For Treating Anxiety
Using Medical Cannabis for Anxiety & Depression
Hey, there is something else you can do in the privacy of your home. You can do something to help yourself.
Let's look at Tapping and EFT.
Tapping is a technique that provides relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases. While Tapping is newly set to revolutionize the field of health and wellness, the healing concepts that it’s based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which utilize the body’s energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.
Your body is more powerful than you can imagine… filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of that power.
Mood Supplements help maintain emotional equillibrium. They promote a bright, positive outlook, helping to dispel the blues and doldrums.** In addition, mood supplements are known to:
- Inspire feelings of tranquility and relaxation.**
- Support deep, restful sleep.**
- Optimize peak neurotransmitter production.**
Stress Management and sleep products are designed to support natural relaxation and rejuvenating rest. These products may also help to:
- Promote feelings of calm and tranquility.**
- Maintain a healthy emotional equilibrium.**
- Assist with occasional sleeplessness.**
Essential Oils For Treating Anxiety
Using Medical Cannabis for Anxiety & Depression
Hey, there is something else you can do in the privacy of your home. You can do something to help yourself.
Let's look at Tapping and EFT.
Tapping is a technique that provides relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases. While Tapping is newly set to revolutionize the field of health and wellness, the healing concepts that it’s based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which utilize the body’s energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.
Your body is more powerful than you can imagine… filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of that power.
EFT Emotional Freedom Technique Energy Tapping video for anxiety, stress, depression and other emotional issues by Passionate Living Coach Abiola Abrams. This video is for informational purposes only. If you are feeling insecure or have issues with self esteem and self worth, then you may find this EFT script to be helpful for you as well. Please check with your doctor to find out what healing modalities are best for you. This video also explains what EFT tapping is.
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1) Introduction on Anxiety.
2) 3:44 About the EFT Pressure Points
3) 4:20 Affirmation Video Link
4) 5:18 EFT for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Begins.
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EFT Tapping for Anxiety Script
Introduction:
Karate Chop
- I choose to feel calm and I am willing to feel relief;
- I choose to feel calm
- Even though I feel anxious, I choose to completely love, honor and cherish myself.
- Even though I hate feeling like life is beyond my control, I want to completely love, honor and adore myself.
- Even though life has me completely stressed and anxious right now, and I’m almost almost too worried to deal with it, I’m open, willing and able to completely love, honor, cherish and accept myself.
Round One:
- Eyebrow: I feel anxious.
- Side of the eye: I’m a ball of tension.
- Under eye: Life has me overwhelmed.
- Under the nose: It’s almost too much.
- Chin: I’ve been feeling trapped.
- Collar bone: I can’t tell if I’m anxious, stressed or panicking.
- Underarm: I shouldn’t have to go through this.
- Top of the head: This definitely isn’t fair.
Round Two:
- Eyebrow: Why me?
- Side of the eye: Why do I have to feel this anxious?
- Under the eye: What if I didn’t feel this way?
- Under the nose: What if my life wasn’t so stressful?
- Chin: What if my life was stress-free?
- Collarbone: Either way, I hate feeling like this.
- Underarm: I can’t stand feeling overwhelmed.
- Top of the head: Overwhelment is resistance.
Round Three:
- Eyebrow: Knowing that fact stresses me even more.
- Side of the eye: What if this anxiety was my body preparing for something great?
- Undereye: What if I am more powerful than I ever thought possible?
- Under the nose: I probably could release this tension.
- Chin: I don’t know if I really need to be this stressed.
- Collarbone: I’ve felt like this before and gotten past it.
- Underarm: Maybe I am in control.
- Top of the head: Or maybe I’m not in control and that’s okay too.
Round Four:
- Eyebrow: I’m thinking about the stress.
- Side of the eye: I’m thinking about the anxiety.
- Under eye: Maybe holding on to this feeling isn’t that helpful.
- Under the nose: What if life was getting better?
- Chin I am willing to feel like things are getting better.
- Collarbone What if everything was already better right now?
- Under the arm What if I am just scared?
- Top of the head Maybe I’m just scared.
Round Five:
- Eyebrow: I’ve been scared before.
- Side of the eye: It happens.
- Under the eye: I’m human.
- Under the nose: Stuff happens.
- Chin: Maybe one day I’ll laugh about this.
- Collarbone: What if I could laugh about it right now?
- Underarm: I think I’ll get through this.
- Top of the head: I always get through it.
Round Six:
- Eyebrow: I’m a good person.
- Side of eye: I deserve to be happy.
- Undereye: I am willing to be happy.
- Under the nose: Life loves me.
- Chin: While I’m still breathing there’s still hope.
- Collarbone: While I’m still breathing there’s still joy.
- Underarm: I’m starting to feel better – and grounded.
- Top of the head: I might even feel like dancing.
Round Seven:
- Eyebrow: And I probably can’t dance without smiling.
- Side of eye: Life does not have to be perfect.
- Under eye I will do the best that I can.
- Under the nose My best is good enough for me.
- Chin: I am proud of myself.
- Collarbone: I release all resistance.
- Underarm: I am going with the flow.
- Top of the head: I release anything I cannot control.
- And millions of people will feel better today.
- Millions of people will have good experiences today.
- Millions of people will enjoy today.
- Why not me?
- I release the pain, I release the fear, I release the shame and guilt.
- Eyebrow It feels good to be me. And for this I am so grateful.
Introduction to The Tapping Points
Here is a Little More For Those Who Really Want to Learn How to Use EFT To Support Their Wellness.
Here is a Little More For Those Who Really Want to Learn How to Use EFT To Support Their Wellness.
Introduction to Surrogate Tapping Video
Surrogate Tapping Audio
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Disclaimer
The information provided on this site is intended for your general knowledge only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice or a treatment for specific medical conditions. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or any health concerns. The information on this website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Never delay seeking medical advice or not follow it because of anything that appears on this site
Disclaimer
The information provided on this site is intended for your general knowledge only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice or a treatment for specific medical conditions. Always seek the advice of your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or any health concerns. The information on this website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Never delay seeking medical advice or not follow it because of anything that appears on this site
