Natural Anxiety Therapy Beats All Others
One of the reasons that conventional therapy for anxiety has not been as successful for many is because anxiety manifests itself very differently in different people. A person may experience a slight tightness in the chest, increased heart and breathing rates, and a slight flush just before going on stage to give a public speech. Another may experience the sudden onset of a full-blown panic attack that includes profuse sweating, shortness of breath, and a severe headache at the thought of talking to a single person they don’t know at a small party.
In our two cases above, the first is a very mild, completely normal and natural human fear response. Public speaking has been identified as the number one fear of adults of all ages, incomes, and professional backgrounds. It goes back to the dawn of time when man’s “fight or flight responses” were a little more primitive and had more deadly consequences than any botched speech is likely to have. This kind of normal anxiety response can actually be a good thing, as it helps keep that reluctant public speaker focused and alert to his audience’s response to his comments.
The second case, however, may just be “the last straw” leading to years of escalating attacks that are physically and emotionally crippling. When that happens and the anxiety is constant or overwhelming, when it interferes with your relationships and activities, that’s when you may think you’ve crossed the line from normal anxiety into anxiety disorder territory. The fact is, you may have been dancing near or in that line for years and for reasons that have little or nothing to do with strangers at a party.
Anxiety can look very different from person to person, and the putative causes of an anxiety attack can be just as diverse. As a result, the established medical community continues to treat the symptoms rather than the true underlying causes of most anxiety and panic attacks.
Those symptoms can manifest mentally and emotionally and/or physically. Some of the main emotional symptoms of anxiety include irrational and excessive fears. Worst of all is when you consciously realize that your fear or dread is irrational, but you can’t banish the feeling. Other common emotional symptoms are less easy to spot. They include trouble concentrating and sudden feelings that your mind has gone blank. You may also feel extremely tense, irritable, or nervous, but you cannot pinpoint the cause of the feeling.
Other times, your anxiety manifests itself physically, through an upset stomach, intense fatigue, or the pounding heart and shortness of breath we mentioned earlier. In some of these cases, anxiety sufferers mistakenly believe that they are physically ill. It can take many, many trips to the doctor before an anxiety diagnosis is made. It can also be a long and painful road from there to understanding the true root causes of your anxiety.
Only when those root causes are finally exposed and understood can you begin to reverse the damage and recover. The good news is that your treatment doesn’t need to include many medications or years of therapy. Natural anxiety therapy has proven to be the best and longest lasting course of relief.