Understanding anxiety

I remembered a short little add that's been on the telly here a bit lately. When I watched it I remember being struck by what the people were saying and how they were feeling about things in their lives.

There's another one I think but it doesn't seem to be on YouTube, where the person asks "Why do I feel like something bad is going to happen?". So I followed the link at the end of the add. 

Today you are not diagnosed as nervous, there are in fact different names for different anxiety disorders.  Valium is no longer the drug of choice for treatment.  There are now many drugs on the market that can be prescribed by your physician.  Medication is a good treatment option and sometimes it is the best option.  Beware these drugs like others may have serious side effects such as liver damage from long term use. 

Therapy sessions can be helpful in the treatment for anxiety and panic attacks.  There you can learn effective methods for coping with them.  Once in therapy one can explore the fears and learn to not let them overwhelm you.  

Another effective method is to face your fears.  The problem is most people with anxiety have an extreme fear of the unknown, such as fear of death, fear of the future, fear of economic hardship, etc. 

To beat this try telling yourself that whatever happens you can handle it.  Just repeat to yourself the mantra "I can handle this".  This is a way of leading your thoughts to a better solution than just imagining all the worse case scenarios.  Lead your thoughts to what you desire.  Do not contemplate what you do not want to happen.

Remember just about everyone suffers at one time or another from a degree of anxiety.  Everyone has fears.  How we deal with these fears is what makes some go to church, some take to alcohol  and drug abuse, and others on anti anxiety medication.

The symptoms for anxiety are something that most will experience at some point.  Some of the symptoms of Anxiety include but not limited:  feeling shaky, dizziness, nervousness, trouble sleeping, fuzzy thinking, feeling overwhelmed, and thinking you are going crazy.   Dealing with these symptoms depends on the severity and its cause.  Some stressors when removed usually alleviate the anxiety.  When a person deals with a major stressor in their life this can upset the tranquillity in their life.  

http://www.understanding-anxiety.com/

What I like about this link is that the person writing it is someone who's actually experienced anxiety herself. Not some professional talking through his ass. 

Seeing the psychologist Monday after some delay this time. I expect the happy pills I take would already be playing some part in anxiety treatment for me. I don't want to take any more pills if I have to so will look into other ways first. I think we all get tempted at times to just want to take a magic pill and not do anything else.

I'm hoping that once this money thing is finished much of the anxiety will go away by itself. It's been a big thing to address that "stressor" over the last 8 months, biting the bullet and finally actually doing something about all this debt I'm in. There certainly haven't been any easy solutions, but it does appear am nearly at the end with it all.

I actually felt a bit better last night when Simon arrived and we went to the pub together. He was in a very good up beat mood, but despite that he understands very well all about anxiety as he's suffered through it all his life. As a British child his family was at one point living in Cyprus. There was some war going on there and they had to get out in a hurry back to England fearing for their lives. Since then he's always had trouble in big loud crowds, like at football matches. Their home was actually bombed and mobs everywhere.

But anyway after a couple of drinks and chatting with this really happy friendly person that he was, we talked about going to 357 after all. Simon had never been there, and the poor boy looked like a kid who'd just been told Christmas was cancelled. So I agreed to go, as being with him had made me feel much better. 

You can look on the site if you're interested. It's got 4 levels; 3 sex floors, sauna, steam room, bla. It was "Black Out" night, which I've never heard of before. They turn all the lights off on level 3 and the whole floor is in darkness. I thought it was a bit too dark myself, I mean at some points you couldn't see a thing it was pitch black. Just a small night light would have been much better. 

I was reading earlier about the etiquette of sex clubs. Dunno why some of it's pretty funny to read, for me anyway.

Watching where you walk was important, he said. A first-timer is easy to pick as he walks into mirrors and walls.

If you walk into the sling room or wrestling room you are indicating that’s what you’re looking for, so look inside rooms before entering, he said. Likewise, entering a black room is inviting people to touch and grope you.

As long as you leave the attitude at the door and look confident you’ll enjoy yourself, Dovans said.

But once you’re in the door and you’ve found what’s what, a first-timer is still going to learn how to let men know whether he’s interested or not. While the male mind can sometimes be likened to that of the caveman, cruising is usually more subtle than clubbing your preferred man over the head and dragging him away.

James said most of it comes instinctively when you watch how others behave. Looking someone in the eyes shows interest, and looking away says -˜no’. In darker areas you can’t see people’s eyes, so a hand gesture replaces it. Touching someone shows interest, and flicking someone’s hand away says -˜no’.

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