Curing Anxiety Without Medication...What The Professionals Don't Want You To Know.

As a psychotherapist in private practice for over a decade, I certainly have seen it all: watching my clients suffer through anxiety and stress, watching them go from medication to medication looking for "the right pill", and rarely finding it, spending inordinate amounts of money desperately trying to find the correct method to make their stress go away.

Can Anxiety Be Cured By A Pill or through Mental Health Counseling?

Anxiety is a complex issue...not just something that can be cured through popping a pill, or through one or two visits to a mental health counseling professional. And while a combination of both medication and counseling can be effective, unfortunately it can take years to see results...and often a lot of money.

If I Do Decide To Take Medication And See A Therapist, What Is The Best Type Of Therapy And Medication I Should Take To Help My Anxiety?

I can't answer that for you specifically, because every one is different (for example, you may have an allergy that precludes you from using a certain type of medication; Or you may not take well to a specific model of psychotherapy). That said, I can say that I have seen many of my clients do pretty well with what is known as "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy", in combination with a medication that their psychiatrist prescribed.

Isn't There Any Way To Get Rid Of My Anxiety Right Away, Instead Of Waiting The Years It Can Take For Medication and Counseling to Kick In?

Yes. For every year it takes to go through therapy and anti-anxiety medication, people can actually learn to make their anxiety disappear in 10 to 15 minutes. That doesn't mean that counseling and medication aren't viable options...but they are not the end-all cure-all for anxiety...they are merely supplements to help you get better. The majority of the work is done by "you". Not to mention...you save a great amount of your money and time.

Why Don't Psychiatrists Ever Tell You That You Can Learn to Make Your Anxiety Disappear On Your Own?

Bottom line: Because they need to make a living. If you did not see them for visits, these docs would not be in business. Don't get me wrong...there are some darn good professionals out there in the field of psychiatry.

But, the fact is, if the docs and shrinks let you know that you can learn, in 10-15 minutes, the secrets to curing your anxiety...they would lose a great deal of income.
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Anxiety and Responsibility

I am diagnosed as bipolar with severe depression/anxiety. At times, the anxiety is a very crippling thing. There are days that I can only handle doing one thing at a time. If you add going to the store, crowds of people, commotion, loud traffic or personal relationships, things become very hard to cope with.



One big thing I have been able to accomplish in the last few years is not taking it out on other people when I am so stressed out. It's possible that I am able to refrain from doing that partly because I try to stay away from people as much as possible. Living by myself accomplishes most of that, but it's still a special thing I have learned to do and it comes from an action that is called being responsible.



After I started receiving Veterans Administration Disability, it was very difficult managing my money. Well, I went through this for about four years. Then, I guess I got tired of it. It started appealing to me to be comfortable as opposed to spending money frivolously. This special newly acquired trait of being responsible soon spread over to other aspects of my life.



I started paying more attention to my children as far as the important things are concerned, even though I deeply affected them in a negative way prior to my getting help eight years ago. I have come to the realization that the best and only way I can help them from now on is by the example I set with the rest of my life. That awakening and the one regarding not taking my hardships out on other people helped me to stop justifying my negative actions or words that I thought were the result of someone else's actions or words directed toward me.



I guess if I had to wrap it all up into one word, I couldn't. It means more using two words....."being responsible". When we all turned eighteen we became (officially) our self's own individual. It didn't matter whether we had the most perfect parents of all time or whether they were only human ones who made mistakes. We were who we were, a confused person with both negative and positive qualities and probably unaware at the time of how to retain the positive and discard the negative.



It is a shame that if we are lucky, twenty years later we may see the light when our children are resenting us because we made mistakes being a parent. After eighteen years of age there is no one responsible for you but you. You may try to hide from that truth your entire life, but you will never truly be happy.

5 Ways to quickly ease stress, depression & anxiety

Copyright 2006 Christopher Green No ceremony with this article, we are going to go directly to five quick ways to help you find relief from stress, depression and anxiety.

1 Take regular breaks from the line of fire. Hard work without regular breaks is a great way to build stress and tension. Make sure you have at least one break of 15 minutes in the morning and another in the afternoon, as well as at least 20 minutes to eat. If possible, eat food out of your workstation. Also, if you have much to deal with in your life, take a day or a weekend elsewhere, more if you can - get some respite help really. Even a day away from the line of fire allows you gain some distance from the problems and help you to collect your thoughts.

2 Regular exercises can help relieve stress, depression and anxiety. Exercise releases endorphins in the system and give a natural impulse. Will also provide you with a jump of brooding and housing problems and problems, but only if the right kind of exercises. Avoid: Exercises that allow you to brood (weight lifting, jogging, treadmills) and perform exercises that require your full concentration. Competitive as squash, tennis, badminton and the circuit sports are all excellent examples. It is important that it does not serve the exercise because although it will benefit physically, they are still stressing you mentally and stress, depression and anxiety will deepen.

3 Stop yourself beat. Self-deprecation is a huge part of stress, depression and anxiety. Everytime he beat on himself, will erode confidence and self-esteem. Not say never you're useless, useless, stupid, desperate, boring, ugly and a loser. Never convince you that other people hate them, that others find it hard to be around you and that you are better to be alone. You may never consider acceptable to say these things to other people and should be regarded as equally unacceptable say himself. These words and phrases are powerful and it hurt him. Accept that you are not perfect and do mistakes: as everyone does - and cut yourself some slack. From this day, make a pact with me never surrender auto-censura anymore. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE.

4. Isolation is another problem experienced by stress, depression and suffering from anxiety. OK, there will be times you want only to his own company. During these times, you can wait over and over again about the problems and events and you beat up for hours. Not good. Instead, use the isolation more positively. Occupy your mind dealing with a puzzle, a problem of logic, a crossword puzzle, read a book or make a hobby like painting, playing a musical instrument or anything else that it has an interest in. In this way, isolation helps you to grow rather than cause more pain.

5 Television, radio and newspapers can all provide a daily hit of negativity and low helps your state of mind. In general, focus on the negative side of life: crime, corruption, war, natural disaster and scandal and you can give a distorted picture of reality. Not to mention the amount of image manipulation that submitted you. Of a respite from this source of drip refusal and avoid completely for a week. You can find, as I have, that they have place in his life after that. Trust me, do not miss them.

That is five quick tips to help you combat stress, depression and anxiety. Please give them a try, will all help to increase their levels of mood very quickly.

Always tired, fatigued, full of anxiety? Perhaps you need an evidence of depression.

The depression has become one of the older disorders diagnosed in this country in recent years. Things like the economy falls, causing a decrease in personal finance, as well as daily tensions of life and concerns have caused many Americans to become depressed.

It may have seen television ads recently announced offering evidence of depression. Depression not only saddened the mental state of an individual, but it also causes symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety and loss of motivation, even in the simplest of daily activities. Depressed people are not temporarily temperamental or sad. The condition is, unfortunately, in the long term and affect negatively the way a person feels, thinks and behaves.

Depression is a real medical condition that can be treated, but the help should be sought. That in itself same can sometimes be a difficult task for someone who experiences this ailment. A depression test is important because depression is a disease that requires care and medical treatment. If not treated, can last for months and in some cases, even years.

If they have been feeling out of class for an extended period of time, it might take a depression test. There are several ways to do so. If you don't feel to a visit to the doctor, go online. Visit a Web site that can offer a simple questionnaire to decide or not could be clinically depressed. There is a wonderful site called lexapro.com which offers proof of very good depression which is the form of a simple questionnaire. You'll also find there answers to any questions you may have on how they're feeling. Another good web resource is depression.com. Please note that if the results of the test of depression will be believe that actually suffer from depression, must make an appointment to see a doctor and receive treatment.

If you are, or know someone who suffers from depression, seek help. There is nothing to be ashamed. You don't have to live in sadness to not let life pass you. You are a valuable part of this world and you deserve to experience the same happiness as everyone else around him.