Agoraphobia is defined as fear of the market place. Actually this nervous illness makes people unable to go anywhere outside the home. It is also said to be a phobia of leaving the home.  It is true some cases of agoraphobia keep patients locked up in their homes, other less severe cases cause them to be afraid to venture out to a select few.

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• Performance Anxiety – A condition where a person is unable to make speeches or cannot function under pressure while participating in a participation sport.
• Test Anxiety – A similar condition where a person fails tests in school, even though he or she is adequately familiar with the content of the test.
• Separation Anxiety – When a person, often a child cannot stand to be left alone.
• Anxiety or Panic Disorder – Where a person experiences spell of intense panic when there is no external reason to be in a state of panic.

Though these conditions seem to run the gamut of a wide variety of situations, often times self-help treatments can be very beneficial and maybe even sufficient to start to bring about a cure to each one. A couple of self help treatments that can be very beneficial to anxiety and panic sufferers are reading an excellent psychology book, such as “Psycho-Cybernetics or partaking in progressive relaxation.  First however, we must make this disclaimer:

Panic attacks will sometimes make the sufferer feel as if he or she is experiencing a heart attack or a stroke. It is important a person suffering from this condition gets a clean bill of health from a doctor before assuming the panic has brought on these common mock heart attack or stroke symptoms. Once the patient’s health is no longer in question, he or she should no longer pay any attention to these false symptoms while under the influence of the adrenaline brought on by the panic attack.

Though ignoring anxiety’s symptoms is difficult when one’s nerves are sensitized, doing so is key to putting an end to panic attacks.  One technique many people have used to start down the road to desensitizing their nerves is progressive relaxation.

There are three stages to progressive relaxation exercises. First, the anxiety sufferer lies down or relaxes in an easy chair. Once comfortable, the patient instructs the major body parts to relax. This is accomplished by instructing the body starting at the bottom and moving to the top. In other words, “feet relax, legs relax, lower legs and buttocks relax,” etc. This is continued right up to the head and in this way some degree of relaxation is accomplished.

In the second stage, the patient becomes aware of the breathing, which should be slower than normal but comfortable. He or she should pay no attention to any outside noises but only tune into this slow, comfortable breathing.

After a few minutes, the patient should think of some relaxing time or scene he or she has experienced some time in the past, or if no peaceful scene from the past can be thought of, the patient should make one up. The key is to use the imagination and the breathing to be drawn into a peaceful state of mind.

Finally, the patient should imagine him or herself acting in a way that would be his or her ideal. For instance, the test anxiety sufferer should imagine being calm and confident while taking a test. The panic sufferer should imagine dismissing any hint of panic and continuing on through the day undisturbed.

While this may seem too simple to give any real results, I used this method when I suffered frequent severe panic attacks and it was what got me to turn the corner and head toward complete recovery. So, I know it works, but there is one more key to a successful recovery.

An anxiety sufferer needs to recognize the fact he or she is suffering from anxiety disorder and needs to acknowledge it will only leave after the body’s overly sensitized adrenaline system becomes healed. This can only happen on its own timetable and will only happen after the patient realizes that no amount of fighting the condition or trying to run away from it will help. However, acceptance together with time will heal panic attack anxiety.

The key is to use relaxation and recall relaxed feelings throughout the day. Then, live through anxieties symptoms, paying them as little attention as possible. A complete recovery will come soon after this acceptance takes hold.

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• Social anxiety
• Test anxiety
• Separation anxiety
• Panic anxiety
• Performance anxiety
• and many subtle types of anxiety that fall into the category of “Anxiety Disorder.”

Anxiety, in itself is very common and though it is wise to control it, anxiety really doesn’t amount to much until it crosses over into the realm we term anxiety disorder.  Anxiety disorder is anxiety in doses that tend to control the lives of those who are inflicted by it.  In fact, the main difference between ordinary anxiety and anxiety disorder is whether or not it actually controls what the sufferer does. 

For instance, does he cancel appointments because of anxiety?  Does the sufferer change or cancel travel plans?  Does he call in sick often because of his inability to to face the drive to work or his apprehension to talk a client or face the boss?  These things may frazzle the nerves of a sufferer of ordinary anxiety, but they will entirely overwhelm the sufferer of anxiety disorder.

Another symptom of anxiety disorder is panic.  Mot all, but most sufferers of anxiety disorder also have frequent, or at least occasional panic attacks and this is for a good reason.  Anxiety disorder and panic attacks are born of the fight or flight syndrome.  In other words, the more one tries to run away from, or fight off anxiety, the deeper and more overwhelming the anxiety will be.

One who has he ability to totally accept his anxiety will never suffer a panic attack because when fear is absent from anxiety, this anxiety will be unable to build into panic.  It is when the sufferer tries to escape the weird and horrific feelings anxiety brings on that anxiety receives the fuel it needs to build into strong anxiety disorder and panic.  Yes, fear is panic’s fuel, without it panic wanes.

Learning how to control fear while under the duress of anxiety is something that needs to be learned but it is a very learn-able trick as many have been cured from anxiety disorder and panic attacks.   

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It is most often one of these two major, physical life threatening developments a panic sufferer fears and so he or she feels their symptoms.  The reason for this is the panic attack sufferer is so overwrought, he or she cannot possibly realize it was adrenaline that brings on these very real feelings.  Still, as horrible as these feelings are, if he or she did not fear them, they would never develop.

However, it is imperative the sufferer of panic attacks has a medical professional clear him or her of any such medical problems as heart attack or stroke.  It is very important a doctor tell a panic sufferer it is an anxiety panic disorder causing these feelings of dyer medical concerns but his or her physical health is good. 

Having said that, it very common for people with anxiety disorder to have fake feelings of major medical calamities that to them, feel quite authentic.  To the sufferer of anxiety disorder these fake symptoms cause as much pain and are as disconcerting as the real ailment would cause.  You can see where this would be very upsetting to anyone!

The key to overcoming the symptoms of panic attack, along with its mock heart attack and stroke symptoms is to first be cleared of heart problems by the medical community and to secondly, gain an understanding of  how the human nervous system works.

It is adrenaline behind all the wrong doing that occurs when one is in the state of panic or heavy anxiety.  Adrenaline will normally flow in the body of anyone experiencing nervousness; even ordinary everyday nervousness.  Adrenaline causes strange and sometimes very disquieting feelings in a person.  Especially a person who is very much on edge.

These feelings, when the sufferer tries to fight them off or run away from them will come on even stronger.  This is because adrenaline in secreted in response to fight or flight.  So, what happens in a situation like this is adrenaline, which has brought on feelings that were unwanted in the first place, compounds these feelings after the flight or fight response triggers the adrenal glands to secret more.

The end result can be a major panic attack being manufactured from ordinary nervousness.  So, you can see, the key to the panic attack cure is the ability to learn how to not respond to feelings that are brought about by the secretion of adrenaline. 

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People who are bipolar come from all walks of life; even professions are not immune to it.  Most often, these people are responsible and hard working.

This disorder sometimes becomes subdued and is dormant in a person’s life.  Other times these mood swings will “flare up!”

A bipolar person used to be known as Maniac Depressive.

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Separation anxiety is most common in children.  This condition usually develops around the age of 12 months.  The causes of separation anxiety stem from a feeling of safeness and trust that has been built between a child and a certain person, usually, the mother.  As in most things anxiety related, separation anxiety involves fear of the unknown.

The cure to common cases of separation anxiety is to develop a strong trust between another party; sitter, friend relative and the child.  It is also helpful to build an association of fun with the act of leaving the child with this person.

Though separation anxiety is most common in children, it is also common in the elderly and dogs.  Those suffering from it actually may become physically sick when they are separated from their loved one.  Children may throw up, dogs may mess the house.  Even without intervention, the sufferer usually outgrows separation anxiety.

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You can find out a lot about your anxiety by making statements such as:

• I have anxiety because  have children
• I have anxiety because I drive during rush hour
• I have anxiety because I work for a jerk
• I have anxiety because my husband drinks and is volatile
• I have anxiety because I am overwrought
• I have anxiety because I am going through a divorce

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Composing such statements will help you find your underlying anxiety cause.  However, when we try to overcome anxiety by fighting , we can build our normal response anxiety into a disorder or even a panic attack.  Always approach the problem causing the underlying anxiety and not the anxiety itself.  Understand that while this problem is a part of your life, the anxiety will trick you into thinking there is something else wrong with you.  Don’t respond to these thoughts, they can elevate the anxiety into an anxiety disorder.

Sometimes an anxiety disorder can build without an apparent underlying cause.  This often stems from recreational drug use.  In such cases the underlying cause is bewilderment because you feel you would have nothing to be nervous about.  Just let this type of anxiety disorder run its course.  Don’t read anymore into it than just a nervous illness and if you do not cower from it it will go away in time.

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If we run away from these feelings or try to bury them, we could build ordinary nervousness into a panic attack.  As the saying goes, go with  the flow.  This is the main key to defeating panic attacks.

The reason the nervousness starts in the first place could be due to some deep seated cause, but knowing what that deep seated cause is, is not necessary to effect a cure for, or defeat anxiety panic disorder.

While overcoming panic disorder completely can take some time and practice, not responding to adrenaline’s feelings is the key to successfully completing this mission.  Like water off a duck’s back is how we should deal with any stimuli adrenaline throws at us.

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Maybe you are visiting this page because you have been having frequent panic attacks lately and would like to defeat panic forever.  Perhaps you are having panic right now.  Here is a tip for you.  For panic attacks to be really frightening, we have to be running from them or worried about what they can possibly do to us.

As we realize our apprehension is what is making them so horrible, they start to diminish in strength.  Panic builds in strength like a rolling snowball as we try to run from it, but when we stop trying to avoid panic, in melts.

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In more advanced cases of agoraphobia the sufferer will not be able to leave home at all.  Cases like this usually start with the sufferer being afraid to go shopping (fear of the market) or to church but build to the point where the agoraphobiac will not be able to go anywhere without having a panic attack.

The key to overcoming agoraphobia lies in defeating anxiety and panic attacks.

The fear of being able to get out of a crowded market often causes an agoraphobia sufferer to have a panic attack.

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Usually, there is something in the anxiety sufferer’s life that has made him /her overwrought and started the trend toward nervousness.  It could have been breaking up with a significant other, a physical disturbance such as illness, the use of a recreational drug or any of probably a thousand more things could lead one to slip into an anxious state.

It is only when one over-reacts to this stimuli a full-blown case of anxiety panic disorder can ensue.  Not responding to the tricks of adrenaline driven nervousness is  the way to  not only stop anxiety attacks from developing, it is the key to the cure of anxiety and panic disorder.

Remember, you always have the choice between thinking about everything that may be going wrong or some tranquil scene you remember from your past.  There is no reason you can’t chose the latter.

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