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Anxiety Disorder Treatment
In the fifties and sixties they had it, but it was less present in the
typical nine-to-fiver and it was not nearly as complicated: I'm talking
about anxiety disorder or panic disorder a malaise characterized by
what are today called anxiety attacks that feature symptoms that
simulate those of the sympathomimetic system (the fight-or-flight
state) in overdrive: increased heart rate; edgy/nervous, stinking
thinking; intense feelings of dread or impending doom; impeding,
irrational thoughts; feelings of lightheadedness or vertigo;
tingling/chills in the extremities; nausea; tense(d) muscles;
constricted chest; dryness of mouth; trembles; shakes; sweats;
breathing struggles; and/or odd feelings of being detached, or that
things are unreal or strange.
In the fifties, sixties, and early seventies (and sometimes probably
now), my mother had panic attacks. She would call for one of us to go
get her one of [her] pills, would remove herself from the source
usually one of us of the anxiety, and be fine within twenty minutes to
a half an hour. While this is seemingly a now obsolete or defunct
anxiety disorder treatment, my mother whom people labeled as oh, just a
little high-strung was actually making use of some of the more
effective of anxiety disorder treatments available at the time. Yes,
the sixties were for homemakers and mothers working two jobs a time for
pills. The sixties were the place also known as the Valley of the
Dolls. But maybe pill-popping as an anxiety disorder treatment is not
so antiquated a strategy nor so knee-jerk a solution. The response for
some especially those who are physically ill and therefore more
susceptible to the disorder and the panic instances is the only thing
that works.
Others also use one of the oldest self-help anxiety disorder treatments
the paper bag.
Right before I would
come to befriend her, one friend in the eighties (now a contemporary of
over 25 years) would walk into the classroom before philosophy class
began with her backpack, a drink, and a paper bag bunched at where the
neck would be. She would breathe deeply into and out of the bag
inhaling and sucking the paper with a crackle and exhaling and
returning the brown lunch bag back to an expanded balloon state.
Evidently, her need for this maneuver was brought on by an anxiety
attack (a. k. a. panic attack) a sudden surge of dread and fear
combined with a variety of the above-described symptoms. THE PHYSICAL
PROPERTIES of ANXIETY ATTACKS
The anxiety attack instigates an imbalance of blood gases, for want of
the appropriate amounts of carbon dioxide in the blood (often caused by
the unwitting hyperventilating the anxiety-stricken individual is
doing. Inhaling and exhaling steadily through the paper, then, levels
out the carbon dioxide.
Because the anxiety syndrome has become more prevalent in specific
cultures and countries, experts in the medical and therapeutic fields
have added to their list of suggestions for self-help anxiety disorder
treatments. Some of these include talking yourself up (or down, but not
depressedly or negatively), taking your point of focus to a place
outside of your body and bodily reactions/symptoms, and sitting calmly
with this too shall pass approach and attitude or mindset.
Sometimes, the
anxiety attacks are not psychologically -based, but are instead
symptoms accompanying a physical illness (such as hypertension, for
instance). Then, the anxiety disorder treatment you seek might be more
involved. Some chronic sufferers consult doctors or therapists or visit
clinics dedicated to such disorders. In addition, people access the
options and alternatives for anxiety disorder treatment: they partake
of medications prescribed for them, get therapy (such as
biofeedback/Neurofeedback or psychotherapy), or learn new
life-management skills. As well, some experiencing chronic anxiety will
endeavor to learn new techniques for breathing, stress-management, and
better problem-solving.
While time has passed, some symptoms, syndromes, and treatments have
not. And some are new and improved, depending upon severity, need, and
response to healing strategies whether it is pills for the high-strung
or paper bags for the harangued.
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