How to make anxiety go away?

Question

I cant take it anymore ive been having the worst anxiety for the past 2 weeks. I went to the doctor and he sadi nothings wrong its just anxiety if u forget it it ownt come again. But it doesnt work, you cant forget osmething in oyur mind that easily. THe main casue of my anxiety is the fear it will ocme back. Like i have hard trouble breathing and heartp pounding, chest pain stomach pain sometimes to thep onit i feel liek im jsut ognna drop dead right there etc. When it goes away i fear it will come back. Even when im totally relaxed and not thinking on it at lal it randomly hits me and its very hard to control when it gets to that point No matter how hard i try it still wont go away. Does nayone have any tips?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Do you have spell check? I'm not trying to be a smart butt it's just hard to understand what you are asking? I don't know what doc you are seeing but anxiety attacks are usually brought on by things which you have no idea. Panic attacks are frightening and sometimes people think they are having a stroke, heart attack or maybe even losing their grip. (lol for the lack of a better word) I know I've had them. You can not just ignore them and hope they go away. Yes there are many stress relaxation techniques which will help but it sounds like you need to see a doctor that specializes in this area. There are many different meds and combined with stress relaxation techniques are very successful.
Please make an appointment with a psychiatrist and discuss the problem with them. Your anxiety sounds too high to control on your own. I know because I have suffered with them for years.
There are docs out there that can and will help you
Good luck

Answer 3

Well first of all it's important to note that everyone experiences anxiety once and a while. It only becomes a problem when it affects a person's ability to function. As anxiety is a normal part of being human, you will never be "free" from anxiety, but therapy will, hopefully, teach you techniques to manage and/or mitigate the anxiety before it gets to the point that it affects your functioning.

Answer 4

Yes. You have an Anxiety Disorder. This is easily treated. Very easily.

Go back to the Doctor and tell him exactly what you have written here. If you did that the first time go to another physician. Ideally you should schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist but since psychiatric appointments sometimes need to be scheduled a couple of weeks in advance, go instead to your regular physician.

You need a short term prescription for an anti-anxiety medication. There are several types. One is valium or a valium derivative. These are anti-anxiety hypnotics. They will minimize or eliminate your anxiety very quickly but prolonged use can be psychologically addictive. So you use them in the short term while waiting for a longer acting non-addictive anti-anxiety medication to take effect, like Paroxetine, one of the new drugs.

These medications are very effective but they can take as long as three weeks to become effective. Some take even longer. But they are indeed very effective and yet they do not affect your mentation in the way the valium sometimes does.

In the meantime, you need to isolate the things in your life that are disturbing you. Something is, even if you can't point to it and instead you experience only a free floating constant anxiety that isn't as far as you can tell tied to anything in particular.

Usually continual panic anxiety is tied to more than just one thing and the causes aren't new, they've been around for a while.

By isolate I mean that you need to figure out what these things that are bothering you consciously or unconsciously are. Sometimes we supress the things that bother us so much we are not aware of the effect they are actually having.

Most of the time these things are so integrated into our lives can't be eliminated. . Instead circumstances require that we continue to live with them even though they are producing anxiety in one form or another.

If that's the case you need to figure out what the are, and having done that, then figure out a better way to deal with and handle them then you currently are using.

Now, you may really think you are handling them adequately but the fact that you are anxious establishes that your method isn't adequate enough.

What's required may be just be an attitudinal change in which you really decide not to ponder things that can't be changed. More like it may be (and probably is) a new form of action toward the problem(s). Sometimes living with a problem and doing nothing but changing your attitude so that you really recognize that you can only change the things you can change and this isn't one of them is the best thing you can do for everyone concerned including yourself.

Sometimes its the worst thing to do. It depends on the circumstance and it depends on you and on your resources. You can't change something when you don't have the resources to change it.

For example you can't make someone with Lung Cancer stop smoking. Only they can do that. All that you can do it make them and yourself miserable and anxious about it.

Either way you need to make a change. But change probably won't be very effective unless you get the help you need. At the very least it will be about a thousand times harder, and you are more likely to fail without help.

Good luck. But if you go back to the Doctor you probably wont need luck. This is easily treated.

Answer 5

I can help you with this, as I have suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

1. Learn to ride with the anxiety. Don't fight it. It comes in waves.

2. Distract yourself by doing something you like.

3. Learn Qigong (pronounced Chi-Gong), a system of self-healing that stems back 5,000 years to China. It works great for anxiety disorders.

Here is a very basic Qigong exercise, called The Sitting Meditation:

Sit down in a comfortable position with your back straight.

Place your hands palms-up on your lap with the fingers not touching one another. The palms have minor chakras in them and you may feel a tingling sensation because energy is entering your hands.

Breathe in slowly and deeply in order to aid in relaxation.

Visualize yellow, violet, sky blue and/or white energy (whichever color works for you) coming into your body from all sides and forming a continuous pillar of light that goes from inside your head down to the pit of your stomach. As you do this, the healing energy will go to where it is needed in the body. Breathe in the energy as you do this.

Whenever you have an anxiety attack, do this Qigong excercise.

4. Avoid all softdrinks, cake, candy, cookies and pastries.

5. Drink filtered water or spring water when thirsty.

6. Eat only organic meat and then only sparingly. Regular meat has antibiotics and hormones in it that do all sorts of nasty things to the body.

7. Eat a salad once a day that has celery, shredded carrots and green leafy lettuce (like baby spinach or romaine but not iceberg as it has zero nutritional value). Those three ingredients are very important for lowering stress levels and aiding in digestion, among other things.

8. Start taking Vitamin E daily. It lowers blood pressure, helps the heart, and lessens stress and anxiety. If this is new to your body, start out with only 1 capsule of 100 I.U. per day. Gradually build up to 400 I.U. - one capsule in the morning and one in the evening. If you are taking too much Vitamin E you will know it because it will make you dizzy. So make it a gradual increase.

9. Start taking Coral Calcium. I took a health class in college that informed me that people who have had heart attacks also have a massive calcium deficiency. Calcium is what the body uses to regulate the heartbeat. Better than a glass of warm milk, it helps one to relax naturally.

10. Start taking a green powder supplement, like Perfect Food or VerdiSyn. When the body is under stress, B-Vitamins are used up very quickly. Green powder supplements have an abundance of B-Vitamins and related that your body needs to fight stress. Mix the powder in a glass of water, not fruit juice - as the latter has sugar which increases stress levels.

11. Depending on your fitness level, start an exercise program of low-impact aerobics twice a week for at least twenty minutes, with additional time to warm-up and warm-down.

12. Avoid ALL medications. They DO NOT treat the cause - ONLY the symptoms. My nutritional doctor says that the American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical companies are "in bed with one another." She is quite right. Let them get rich peddling their hamful drugs to others who are less willing to take responsibiilty for their health and their lives.

You are now on the road to recovery. You may still have anxiety but if you follow all the tips I have outlined above, you will find that the severity of your attacks will lessen over time.

I overcame my PTSD without a medical doctor or drugs.

You can too.

Save your hard-earned money for other things more beneficial.