Chronic Anxiety?

Question

My wife has chronic anxiety. She often wakes up in the night with it. All the doctors she has seen just want to treat the symptom. They prescribe Xanax or some tranqualizer. Is there someone who has some insight as to the possible root cause? Could it be a vitamin or mineral defeciency or an alergy? My wife hates being a slave to pills, she wants to discover the root cause of her anxiety and fix it. Any insight would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It depends on what is causing the anxiety. If it's coming from the emotions, then you make two columns on a piece of paper.

Next, write down what you don't like in one column, then use those dislikes as a springboard to write down next what you do like.

Here's an example:

1- I don't like waking up feeling out of control. 1a. I want to feel relaxed in my sleep.

Write down as many things that you can think of...maybe 25 to 50 things. For each one that you don't like, write down something specific that you do like. As your wife does this, she can draw a line through each thing she doesn't like, one by one.

From those "do wants," create an ideal situation and write that down.

When focusing on the good stuff in your ideal scene, tell yourself you're "in the process of ..." getting your ideal scene.

If the problem is biochemical, then she'd need to take some herbs or vitamins, because self-talk therapy doesn't replace a shortage of nutrients.

I'd use St. John's wort and/or 5HTP (or tryptophan itself) to start. If that doesn't do the trick, it could be a deeper or more complex challenge, such as digestive problems, which can produce many seemingly unrelated symptoms.

Good luck and be well.

Kelley

Answer 2

Advice is what advice does. Experience however is a great teacher.
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Answer 3

The first thing is to find a professional who can help to help your wife discover the source of her anxiety. It can be work related, family related, some past trauma, or just inability to cope with stress. Instead of using medications, which causes a dependency, investigate neurofeedback for anxiety. It is a safe, effective, alternative approach that is approved by the American Psychological Association for the treatment of anxiety and depression and many others things like ADD/ADHD. It requires several sessions but it works. Read below on my website to learn more

Answer 4

There are usually always physical (rather than "mental") causes to anxiety. Fatigue, insomnia, mental confusion, anxiety, nervousness, mood swings, faintness, headaches, depression, phobias, heart palpitations, a craving for sweets, cold hands and feet, forgetfulness, waking at night, dizziness, blurred vision, inner trembling, outbursts of temper, sudden hunger, allergies, and crying spells are all symptoms of hypoglycemia. For one person in every ten, sugar is a deadly food, paving the way toward a hundred distressing physical symptoms, plus all the tortures of neurotic and even psychotic behavior.
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Other problems could be anemia, which has symptoms like racing heart, weakness, fatigue, insomnia. A blood test will determine this.

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Homeopathic Remedies for Anxiety / Stress / Depression(Bereavment) / Mood Swings :-

ANXIETY & STRESS :-

Sudden with restlessness and fear of death Aconite 30X or 200X,1/2 hourly (3 Doses)

Prolonged with periodic and panic attacks Arsenic Alb.200X, 4 hourly (3 Doses)

With fainting spells; profuse sweating; worse in the morning Sulphur 30X or 200X 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Makes patient walk fast; due to anticipation Argentum Nit 200X, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Worse lying in bed and closing the eyes Carbo Veg 30X or 200X, 4 hourly (6 Doses)

Anxiety aggravated by upward or downward motion; going in an elevator; worse till 11 P.M, Borax 200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Anxious about business even when seriously ill Bryonia Alba 200X 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Full of apprehensions in the evening Causticum 200X, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Anxiety and fears in the evening with restlessness and palpitation Calcarea Carb.200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Anxiety worse while lying still. Sad music ameliorates the complaints Manganum Acet 200X 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Anxiety due to fright, fear,exciting news; stage fright; worse while appearing for examination or interview etc Gelsemium 30X or 200X 3 hourly (6 Doses)

Mood Swings, Anxiety due to grief or shock in the subconscious mind Ignatia 200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Anxiety; better after eating Anacardium Or 30X, 4 hourly.

DEPRESSION & GRIEF(Bereavement) :-

Severe shock due to sudden death of loved ones; restlessness, anxiety and fear Aconite 200X. 10 min (3 Doses)

Prolonged mournings; cannot overcome the loss of loved ones and/or Mood Swings. Ignatia 1M or 10M, 6 hourly (3 Doses)

When the grief is in the conscious mind; patient weeps; does not like sympathy Natrum Mur.200X or 1M, 6 hourly (3 Doses)

For chronic grief and indignation Staphysagria 200X or 1M, weekly (3 Doses)

Depression with suicidal thoughts feeling of worthlessness, Aurum Met 30X, three times a day half hour before meals.


Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms. No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in the fridge.
Curing without any side effects or Complications Thats the Beauty of Homeopathic Medicine (Cures Par Excellence)

Take Care and God Bless You !

Answer 7

Just based on personal experience yes. Whenever I have a panic attack I get so exhausted that I have to sleep and when I am going through a period where I am very anxious I am more exhausted then usual.

Answer 8

General Symptoms of the Disease
A distinctive sign of depression is a feeling of sadness, even misery, which is worse in the morning and lasts for nearly all of the day. Other general symptoms consist of:

-Loss of interest in and enjoyment of work and leisure activities.
-Reduces energy levels.
-Poor concentration.
-Reduced self-esteem.
-Feelings of guilt.
-Tearfulness.
-Inability to make decisions.
-Early waking and failure to resume sleep or an extreme need to sleep.
-Loss of hope for the future.
-Recurrent thoughts of death.
-Weight loss or increase in weight.
-Decreased sex drive.

In adults, other symptoms may occur, including confusion, forget-fullness, and personality changes, which may be mistakenly attributed to dementia. Neglect of person hygiene and diet in an adult person may also be an indication of underlying depression. Sometimes, depressive illness manifests itself as a physical symptom, like fatigue, or may lead to a physical problem, like constipation or headache.

Severely depressed people may see or hear things which are not there. Irrational delusions may also occur. For instance, a depressed person may become influenced that his or her partner is having a sexual relationship with somebody else. Depression may also exchange with periods of euphoria in a person having manic depression.

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Answer 9

Tell her to see a psychologist. Therapy helps a lot of people, tell her to give it a try, what can she lose? A lot of people don't like taking medication, myself included. So tell her to try it out.

Answer 10

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