Trying to work your way through anxiety disorder is a lonely road. Try as you might, people just can not seem to wrap their head around it. It is not hard to understand why. Most of us that have suffered through anxiety disorder fully understand how complicated and confusing it can be. I know for me it is the one thing in my life that I have not been able to fully master, and I have my doubts that I ever will entirely. When you consider this, it is even easier to understand how someone that is not experiencing it can be confused and frustrated. What are we to do? Read the rest of this entry
Posted July 6th, 2010 by C. King, M.Ed.
Posted March 30th, 2010 by C. King, M.Ed.
Everyone that suffers from panic and anxiety attacks in public knows that familiar feeling of shame and embarrassment. Your heart starts to race a hundred beats a minute, you begin to sweat and the world sometimes begins to spin around you. Recovering from an anxiety attack in public is possible, no matter how hard it may seem to be on the surface.
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Posted March 15th, 2010 by C. King, M.Ed.
When you experience a panic attack your body is tricking itself. You are feeling all the normal things that a person would feel if they were facing grave danger. Your body reacts in such a way that you are at optimal attention levels. The only problem is, there is generally no real danger. The result of this panic attack is usually a sensation of being unable to breathe and any number of other symptoms. How do you stop a panic attack in simple language? You show the body that there is no real danger…
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