Do you know why many anxiety patients suffered long term panic attack and only able to control their condition with medication? When the person became rely on the medication to control their anxiety, they risk more severe anxiety attack as those treatment will only relief the sensation of the body but not the mind.

Long term or heavy dosage of most medication will have different level of side effects, that’s why many people turn their attention to herbal or natural treatment for anxiety. Using natural remedy is good, but will not have “instant effect” like medication, it takes time and effort to see result.

When I mention about time, it ranges from 3 days to 3 months. I think this is not a long time to see result, but you gain permanent benefit from the treatment. To maximize the effect of natural treatment, holistic treatment for anxiety was introduced.

Holistic treatment the combination of many natural treatment methods, and treat the problems as a whole. The patient undergo holistic treatment will need to change their bad lifestyle and habit. Any lifestyle or habit that contribute to enhance anxiety are considered bad.

This guide will help you analyst your condition, know the trigger and cause of your panic attack and help you to cure anxiety from the root, permanently eliminate anxiety from your life. Some of the method requires you to invest on certain medication and program, while most of them are free.

You must be prepared to change your lifestyle, habits, diet and use the guide as reference to outline your own treatment plan. Holistic treatment requires a treatment plan that will completely eliminate any kind of activity or event that will contribute to enhance the sense of anxiousness, and only you will know your own condition to outline the treatment plan for yourself.

Let’s get started…

Anxiety and depression are among the leading mental disorders around the globe. Statistics show that about 20 million Americans suffer from this condition. Impressive, isn’t it? You would think anxiety would be more likely to occur in Third-World countries where life is tougher than in Super-Powers such as the USA, where everything is there in plenty. Facts are often stranger than fiction - and this is one scenario that proves this adage amply.

Anxiety can attack at any age. Once upon a time, this was believed to be a problem, which affected most the 18-55 years old bracket; today, you will find anxiety symptoms in children as young as 7. There is too much competition, too many expectations, too much uncertainty and to top it all, there is no way to escape from it. Right from the pre-school days parents instill into the minds of their children that they have to be the best and stay ahead in the race, or they would be total losers. The parents’ nervousness is transmitted to their children who gradually become trapped into a ‘do-or-die’ self-imposed pursuit of excellence. This might not be such a bad idea, if that came from within the child; however, when this comes from outside and does not match capacity, anxiety is born. Once it catches roots, it grows and eats you up from inside every time you want to be the best, to outdo your competition.

Adults are exposed to stress and anxiety every day, too. The lucky ones identify it for what it is and adopt measures to eliminate it. Others, who are not so lucky, all prey to it and gradually find themselves falling into a vortex of physical and mental ailments. Then, there are the middle-age people who worry about their direction, personal and professional success in life, their past versus their future, and unless they are really careful, they leave the door wide open for anxiety to creep into their lives.

Senior people are as vulnerable to Anxiety disorder as any others are. They, who are looking at a stretch of indefinite time ahead of them, supported by diminishing income generation powers, and possibly no emotional support is easy prey to feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and fear of what-tomorrow-brings. Their imminent mortality and inability to stay in full control of their own lives can indeed be depressive.

In order to identify anxiety you need to be very familiar with the symptoms it manifests. The symptoms of anxiety are many and these are broadly classified into five categories:

(i) somatic,

(ii) behavioral,

(iii) cognitive,

(iv) emotional, and

(v) defense mechanism.

Each one of these categorizations is briefly described below to enable you not only to diagnose anxiety but also have a basic understanding of the condition:

<a href=”http://www.onlinepharmacylist.net/2/1/Soma/”>Somatic

‘Somatic’ refers to the physical symptoms of anxiety, which is the result of sudden changes in the hormonal balance in the body and its impact on the cardio-vascular, nervous and muscular system. These are shortness of breath, nausea, paleness, lightheadedness or head reeling, chest pain, profuse sweating, tight feeling in the shoulders, back of the neck and the lower back, headaches or migraines, diarrhea, tingling of the skin, butterflies in the stomach sensation, cold and clammy hands, among others.

Behavioral

‘Behavioral’ refers to those signs that affect the way you react to anxiety. These symptoms include pacing up and down, acute restlessness, trembling, hyperventilation, repetitive behavior, forced speech, and the like.

Cognitive

‘Cognitive’ refers to thoughts and thinking process that happens when you suffer from anxiety. The symptoms here include confused state of mind, a sinking feeling like everything is going to end (badly), relentless attack of morbid thoughts, lack of concentration, loss of memory, experiencing obsessive thoughts and others.

Emotional

‘Emotional’ refers to the feelings that are associated with anxiety, which is terror, acute panic, stringed up, ready-to-explode or always-on-the-edge types of feelings, tension, unreal situation, and panic among others.

Defense mechanism

Here the reference is to automatic reactions of the human body when attacked by anxiety. These are basically psychological defenses, which are triggered to accommodate the extraordinary symptoms that come with anxiety attacks. Some of these defenses mechanisms are:

1. Repression - The thoughts that cause anxiety are simply ignored and pushed away from the mind; something similar to how the ostrich reacts in the face of danger - buries its head in the sand, leaving his whole body defenseless; but it feels that it is safe because at that time it is no longer able to see the danger.

2. Displacement - In order to rationalize these terrible symptoms, the fear and/or anxiety feelings are “attached” to a “reason for the fear”. This is one example of how phobias evolve. This means that the anxiety feelings are blamed on a scapegoat - and therefore, acceptable as long as the object to which these are attached are not within reach.

3. Somatization - These indicate translating anxiety into illness. Therefore, you would rationalize that the unpleasant feelings that you are experiencing are due to anxiety you suffer from such as diarrhea, headaches, muscular pains, recurring cough and cold infections, and so on.

4. Delusion formation - This is one of the more serious manifestations of anxiety where you would start believing that there are conspiracies generated especially to put you in trouble, or worse kill you. Logic and reality would not be able to influence or undermine these (usually) fantasy theories.

The symptoms of anxiety attacks can be classified into two categories. There are the physical symptoms and emotional symptoms. Before I tell you what they are we will need to know what is an anxiety attack also called a panic attack and what cause them to happen.

A panic attack is just a period of intense fear or discomfort .They are often cause when you feel nervous or afraid. When this happen your body response to it with anxiety. This is often called the fight or flight response.

It is called the fight of flight response because our body want to either run from the situation or fight what is causing this. Our body act like this because our ancient ancestors did. When they were faced with danger their body had automatic response which will tell them to attack or run.This was vital for their survival and for ours. This response has been program into us in case of real threat.

Before a panic attack you will usually feel these symptoms. Not everyone feel the same symptoms. We all are different and respond different in situations. Also the symptoms are harmless. Yes that is right they are harmless even though you do feel like something is wrong with you. This is just your body response which is completely normal. Below are the physical and emotional symptoms.

Physical Symptoms

• heart is pounding
• insomnia
• headaches
• shortness ofp>The symptoms of anxiety attacks can be classified into two categories. There are the physical symptoms and emotional symptoms. Before I tell you what they are we will need to know what is an anxiety attack also called a panic attack and what cause them to happen.

  A panic attack is just a period of intense fear or discomfort .They are often cause when you feel nervous or afraid. When this happen your body response to it with anxiety. This is often called the fight or flight response.

  It is called the fight of flight response because our body want to either run from the situation or fight what is causing this. Our body act like this because our ancient ancestors did. When they were faced with danger their body had automatic response which will tell them to attack or run.This was vital for their survival and for ours. This response has been program into us in case of real threat.

  Before a panic attack you will usually feel these symptoms. Not everyone feel the same symptoms. We all are different and respond different in situations. Also the symptoms are harmless. Yes that is right they are harmless even though you do feel like something is wrong with you. This is just your body response which is completely normal. Below are the physical and emotional symptoms.

  Physical Symptoms

  • heart is pounding
  • insomnia
  • headaches
  • shortness of breath
  • tired
  • dizzness
  • light headed

  Emotional Symptoms

  • restlessness
  • your mind goes blank
  • difficulty in concentrating
  • anticipating the worst feeling tense
  Automatic Response, Body Response, Fight Of Flight
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