Fear can be scary | WSLS 10

Extreme anxiety can cause disabling panic attacks, an intense fear that something bad is going to happen. The physical symptoms -- chest pain, dizziness, palpitations and a sense of doom -- can be mistaken for those of a heart attack.

"These are terribly frightening things," said Dr. Martin Buxton, chief of psychiatry at Tucker Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital.

"On the other end of the spectrum, you have things like generalized anxiety disorder, which I call the walking wounded," he said. "These are people who cannot relax and be in the moment. They are constantly worrying . . . What's been shown is these anxiety disorders untreated really can negatively impact peoples' overall health."

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X Factor's Cher Lloyd suffers from panic attacks before performances - mirror.co.uk

X Factor's Cher Lloyd suffers from panic attacks before performances

Cher Lloyd has revealed she suffers from panic attacks moments before she performs on the X Factor stage.

The 17-year-old says that each week she gets so nervous that she believes she won’t be able to sing.

However, Cher says her nerves disappear the moment the music starts.

She said: “To control my nerves I go into a little panic attack mode. I shut myself off from everybody and then I take a deep breath.

“Every time before I go on stage, I always think I can’t do it, and that I’m too nervous to do it, but as soon as the music starts a little switch turns on and I’m ready for it.”

via mirror.co.uk

Do you think she can win in spite of her panic attacks?

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Anxiety disorders affect smoking cessation

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Cigarette smokers who have a history of anxiety disorders have a harder time than others quitting smoking, U.S. researchers suggest.

Lead author Megan Piper of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention says the study offered free coaching and medications to smokers in Madison and Milwaukee. The study found the overall quit rates were high, but smokers with anxiety diagnoses were much less likely than others to quit smoking.

Out of the 1,504 study participants, 455 reported a panic attack in the past, 199 reported social anxiety disorder and 99 reported generalized anxiety disorder -- some reported having more than one diagnoses.

Smokers who said they had anxiety disorders also reported higher levels of nicotine dependence and withdrawal symptoms prior to quitting, Piper says.

In addition, study participants who had panic attacks or social-anxiety disorder experienced more negative feelings on the day they quit than did smokers without no anxiety disorder history.

The study is published in the journal Addiction.

via upi.com

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Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush admit to paralysing stage fright | Culture | The Guardian

Young actors can take some reassurance from the words of Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, who have been at the London film festival promoting The King's Speech – a wonderful, funny, moving film, rightly being tipped as an Oscar contender. The film is about the chronic stammer of George VI and his treatment with an Australian speech therapist. Asked if they had suffered from speech anxiety, both actors said yes. Firth recalled the appalling stage fright he had during his last stage appearance, at the Donmar Warehouse in 1999. With only two weeks of rehearsals, he got so terrified on opening night that he locked himself in the toilet. Then he decided he needed some air, and left the Donmar altogether, accidentally closing the fire door behind him, five minutes before he was due on stage. "So I had to go round the front, through the audience – the very people I was terrified of." Then he couldn't remember the pass code to get backstage and had to beg to get back in. Rush, for his part, said that in the early 1990s he went through a period of "dread-inducing panic attacks before going on stage . . . and then I got an international film career and they sort of disappeared."

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I wish mine "sort of disappeared"!

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Stupid Panic attacks!! - CafeMom

 So everything is finally becoming settled down in my life. I have gotten through a rough patch and we are doing great. I have recently started having panic attacks again and trust me I know what kind of things can cause them and I work hard to over come them.

  Today was a pretty cloudy day here, We are getting ready for snow to hit. Our weather has been great for this time of the year. SO my panic attacks were kinda a no show most of the day, I went and did laundry and had made dinner after words. I am settling down for the night. I get heartburn due to our dinner and of course nothing to take for it, so i am suffering from heartburn. My shoulders and upper back are sore and stiff due to weather changes and other areas of my body are effected and so now I am starting panic attacks. I can takew a trank if I need to. I really hate taking them though but I figure it is close enoough to bedtime in fact over and I am gonna take one soon. I just hate nights like this. I wish I could figure out a way to make them barable. I am so sick of them interrupting my life.

 I hope everyone else had better days. Please feel free to share them well I try and get control of myself so I can sleep.

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good luck with that

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The Witness

PIETERMARITZBURG mother Kalisha Rajcoomar (23), who with her husband, Amith Sewkarran (26), stands convicted of the murder of her lover, Sandesh Poorun, could not testify yesterday because she was suffering from “panic attacks”, anxiety and stress.

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That's convenient, isn't it?

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Earl of Sandwich appeals on behalf of valium victims (From Dorset Echo)

The Earl raised the issue during a House of Lords debate earlier this month and is calling on the government to speed up an ongoing review of people’s dependence on and withdrawal from benzodiazepene based medicines, which are often prescribed to treat insomnia, depression, alcohol addiction and anxiety.

He said the symptoms of withdrawal from these medications can include panic attacks, muscle fatigue and epileptic seizures.

via dorsetecho.co.uk

You're prescribed a drug to treat your anxiety then, when you try to come off it, you get panic attacks! There has to be a better way...

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Half of US teens have mental health issues | hc2d.co.uk | Healthcare News | teenagers | adhd | anxiety

The fact that children as young as six years old demonstrate symptoms of social phobia and panic attacks was among the surprising conclusions the researchers were able to draw from the data.

More than 30% of all teens had experienced either social phobia or panic attacks.

via hc2d.co.uk

It can start as early as 6 years old!

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Sonia's battle with anxiety - Local News - News - General - Central Western Daily

She said, at their worst, the panic attacks would leave her so frozen with fear that she would be unable to move until the episode passed.

“There was never a clear-cut trigger and they would come without warning,” she said.

“If I was driving, I would have to pull over and get out of the car.

“I had trouble leaving the house sometimes, socialising, going out for dinner, shopping, just everything that you do every day.”

via centralwesterndaily.com.au

She's not alone in her suffering is she?

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Daniel Pink's Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US - Telegraph

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Teacher Karl Fisch has flipped teaching on its head - he uploads his lectures to YouTube for his students to watch at home at night, then gets them to apply the concepts in class by day.
What could you flip-think about?
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International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)

OCD Awareness Week | October 11-17, 2010

What

The International OCD Foundation and its affiliates from across the country will come together to educate their communities and the public as a whole about obsessive compulsive disorder and its treatments. Learn from the nation's leading experts about how they work with those who suffer daily from the debilitating disorder. Have the opportunity to hear testimonials from patients both recovering and just beginning treatment and learn about the different treatments and therapies that help people hold jobs, balance relationships with family and friends, and lead more typical and productive lives.

Why

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an all-consuming, debilitating disorder that affects up to 4 million people in the United States. The disorder also affects millions more: family, friends and caregivers of those with OCD suffer along side their loved ones.

OCD Awareness Week is presented by the International OCD Foundation as a vehicle for support, advocacy and education to help end the stigma surrounding OCD and encourage sufferers to identify the disorder and / or seek treatment. The national Foundation has enlisted the support of its Affiliates nationwide to join in this education effort.

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A lot of panic attack sufferers also have OCD so I thought I'd share this

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After 66 days underground, Chile's trapped miners greet their jubilant rescuers with the immortal words: What the hell kept you?! | Mail Online

THE MEDICAL PROBLEMS

 Most of the miners are suffering from some sort of medical condition.

Almost all of them have teeth ailments including bleeding gums and cavities.

Many have skin problems from the humidity and dirty conditions in the mine, including boils, acne, psoriasis and eczema.

Many also have chesty coughs from the dust-filled air.

The air quality has been judged ‘poor to severe’ since 700,000 tons of rock crashed down around them on August 5.

Chile’s health minister Jaime Manalich refused to comment on reports that some miners had become depressed during their ordeal but did concede: ‘We have sedatives like Valium available for those who need it.

‘We have one man, I cannot give his name, who suffers panic attacks in confined spaces.

'He has been OK so far but he is medicated and will almost certainly need to be sedated on the way up.’

via dailymail.co.uk

Good luck to the panic attack sufferer on the way up

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My analyst kicked me out of bed | Anna Blundy

My analyst told me we should start seeing other people. It was a strange experience. I first clomped self-consciously up the stairs in his Victorian (could be Edwardian) house in a grim area of North London when I was 25.  I had realised very slowly that my state of constant terror, insomnia and blind panic was actually something I needed to address. I lived on my own and, as my state of mind didn’t much affect anyone else, it was just something I gritted my teeth against until my teeth refused to grit any more.

Since then my ex (analyst)  has changed the carpets twice, painted the walls and woodwork, fitted a new bell, changed a painting from a Japanese mountain scene to a bright, childish abstract thing, moved a few volumes of Freud around the shelves and got fifteen years older. He may well have done other things too, but these are the things I know about. Actually, that’s a lie. I know he has published a lot of work, some of which is on the reading list for a course I’m doing. I’m nervous about reading it. Perhaps it will begin: ‘I had one particularly irritating and boring patient, a young woman who….’ etc. Or, since I am talking about these things, perhaps I am hoping I will star in his essays and papers and will be devastated to find that I do not feature at all.

via thecollectivereview.com

15 years in therapy! There has to be an easier way ...

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Hugh Grant - Grant Ran Away From Panic Attack Cure - Contactmusic News

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Grant Ran Away From Panic Attack Cure

HUGH GRANT took up jogging in a bid to combat his crippling panic attacks, but quit when he realised working out gave him a sense of humour failure.

The Four Weddings and a Funeral star has long suffered from crippling anxiety issues and he started running after all other remedies failed to help.

But even though exercise successfully steadied his nerves, Grant gave up when he found himself getting grouchy.

He tells OK! magazine, "I get these panic attacks. So I have always tried to do everything I possibly can - herbal remedies, chemical remedies. Running was the only thing that really helped.

"It calmed me down, so I didn't have the panic attacks. But at the same time, I found it lowered my sense of humour. I lost my edge a bit. So in the end, I stopped running."

via contactmusic.com

Maybe Hugh should try this instead ...

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Carrie Underwood fought panic attacks over crowded malls : SFGate: Daily Dish

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Newlywed country star Carrie Underwood has revealed she used to suffer panic attacks in crowded shopping malls and elevators.
The "Jesus Take The Wheel" singer, who recently revealed she likes to shop for groceries in empty supermarkets at midnight, admits she used to have a big problem with personal space when she was a teenager growing up in Checotah, Oklahoma.
She tells WebMD the Magazine, "I'm a big personal space person. You know, if you go to the restroom, you use the stall that's not near anybody. Or if you're in the gym, you go to the treadmill where there's space in between you. And it seemed like in crowded situations like that, people would just completely violate your personal space."
She tells the publication that Christmas shopping was "my worst nightmare" and reveals she still has moments when crowded elevators make her start sweating - like one that took place just a day before her interview.
She explains, "Every floor we stopped on, we'd cram more people in, and by the time we were done, there was just a ton of people.
"So I start thinking about all the bad things that can happen, and I'm like, 'I've got to get off the elevator, I need to get off the elevator.' I was just like, 'No more stops, please, no more stops!'"

via sfgate.com

Hmmm... being famous and not liking crowds sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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