How do i lose my anxiety?

Question

I don't really go out anymore and today i was going to go in to town and when i was ready to leave the door,i just stood there with the door in my hands and i could'nt bring myself to open the main door,i've been like this for years so any advice would be helpful...

Answer 1

Take the Homeopathic Remedy ACONITE 1M(1000) once a week for three weeks, and let us now about your progress. No side effects or complications.
Wishing you all the best !
Take care and God Bless you !

Answer 2

Have you consulted a Doctor? I had panic attacks that would happen for no reason. I now take Klonopin that stops the attacks before they go into the second stage where I couldn't breathe and thought I was going to die. Check the phone book to see if there are support groups for this kind of anxiety. You may be able to talk on the phone about it.

Answer 3

Though I agree that medication is often a great start to curb your symptoms, cognitive behavioral therapy is a great start to reducing your anxiety. Medications like SSRI's (used continuously) and benzodiazepines (used sparingly) may ultimately curb your symptoms, but when coupled with cognitive therapy, the success rates are the highest. Recent trends in clinical psychology have demonstrated that medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy double your chances of diminishing the anxiety. You have a great deal of options open to you, and it's great that you're taking the first step towards ridding yourself of the anxiety. I wish you the best of luck!

Answer 4

Anxiety is a complex combination of emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath.

Anxiety is often described as having cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. The cognitive component entails expectation of a diffuse and uncertain danger. Somatically the body prepares the organism to deal with threat (known as an emergency reaction); blood pressure and heart rate are increased, sweating is increased, bloodflow to the major muscle groups is increased, and immune and digestive system functions are inhibited. Externally, somatic signs of anxiety may include pale skin, sweating, trembling, and pupillary dilation. Emotionally, anxiety causes a sense of dread or panic and physically causes nausea, and chills. Behaviorally, both voluntary and involuntary behaviors may arise directed at escaping or avoiding the source of anxiety. These behaviors are frequent and often maladaptive, being most extreme in anxiety disorders. However, anxiety is not always pathological or maladaptive: it is a common emotion along with fear, anger, sadness, and happiness, and it has a very important function in relation to survival.

Neural circuitry involving the amygdala and hippocampus is thought to underlie anxiety. When confronted with unpleasant and potentially harmful stimuli such as foul odors or tastes, PET-scans show increased bloodflow in the amygdala. In these studies, the participants also reported moderate anxiety. This might indicate that anxiety is a protective mechanism designed to prevent the organism from engaging in potentially harmful behaviors such as feeding on rotten food.

A chronically recurring case of anxiety that has a serious effect on a person's life may be clinically diagnosed as an anxiety disorder. The most common are generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Mainstream treatment for anxiety consists of the prescription of anxiolytic agents and/or referral to a cognitive-behavioral therapist. There are indications that a combination of the two can be more effective than either one alone.

The acute symptoms of anxiety are most often controlled with anxiolytic agents such as benzodiazepines. Diazepam (valium) was one of the first such drugs. Today there are a wide range of anti-anxiety agents that are based on benzodiazepines, although only two have been approved for panic attacks, Klonopin and Xanax. All benzodiazepines are physically addictive, and extended use should be carefully monitored by a physician, preferably a psychiatrist. It is very important that once placed on a regimen of regular benzodiazepine use, the user should not abruptly discontinue the medication.

Some of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have been used with varying degrees of success to treat patients with chronic anxiety, the best results seen with those who exhibit symptoms of clinical depression and non-specific anxiety or general anxiety disorder concurrently. Beta blockers are also sometimes used to treat the somatic symptoms associated with anxiety, especially the shakiness of "stage fright."

I can give you a treatment plan, but it is better to consult a Clinical Psychiatrist.

Alprazolam 0.25mg SR in the morning and Sertraline 50mg in the evening. Stop Alprazolam after 6 weeks. You can increase the dose of Sertraline upto 200mg, if necessary.

Answer 5

You really need to get yourself to a Dr for treatment. There is help out there. Maybe you could get a friend to help you go to the Dr for treatment. I wish you the best. Anxiety is hard to deal with.

Answer 6

Why not try a solution that does not require the use of medication. Check out this site:

http://www.cureanxietydisorder.com/?utm_source=YahooAnswers&utm_medium=link%2Bpost

It has helped many people that have had panic/anxiety attacks....

Good Luck...

Answer 7

http://www.medicinenet.com/anxiety/article.htm#tocc

Answer 8

try yoga