Category Archives: anxiety

Toilet Anxiety

Toilet Anxiety can be very debilitating. There are two distinct forms of toilet anxiety: not wanting to use unfamiliar or potentially unclean toilets (shy bladder syndrome), and fearing being too far from a toilet. Being afraid to use unfamiliar or … Continue reading

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Chromium for Anxiety

Chromium might be a good supplement for anxiety sufferers. As with all supplements the research to prove or disprove this theory simply does not exist, but there are reasons to link a chromium deficiency with anxiety. Chromium is used by … Continue reading

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Xanax Rebound Anxiety

Xanax (alprazolam), like other benzodiazepines, is famous for its rebound anxiety – the anxiety that you can get after you stop taking a drug or as the effects of the drug wear off. With Xanax you can get a rebound … Continue reading

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Does Xanax Work for Anxiety?

Xanax (generic name alprazolam) definitely does work. Most people find, that with the right dose, they can effectively control anxiety to the point where it doesn’t bother them. In that respect Xanax is the most effective medication for anxiety and … Continue reading

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Rebound Anxiety

Rebound Anxiety is anxiety that is caused by stopping taking some form of medication. It is most common to get rebound anxiety from tranquilisers such as benzodiazepines (see Does Xanax Work for Anxiety) and also anti-depressant SSRI’s such as Prozac … Continue reading

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How Physical is Anxiety

I recently read about a woman who had a mental disorder and was trying to come to terms with the possibility she had been abused as a child. As I read I became angry at the arrogance of psychology. The … Continue reading

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is Anxiety a Mental Disorder

Anxiety is a mental disorder, that is what most doctors and health care professionals will tell you. Anxiety, they say, is all about stress and mental health, not physical health at all. The answer to this problem tends to be … Continue reading

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Anxiety sites – Useful information

BBC Anxiety/PTSD/Depression The BBC now has a mental and emotional health section which you can check out here. It is a little bit simplistic perhaps, as you would expect from the BBC it stick to the medical rule book and … Continue reading

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Hyperventialtion and Anxiety

The link between breathing and how much anxiety we feel is well documented. It is important to not breath too much and also not to breath into the chest. The thing is many of us have got into bad breathing … Continue reading

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Dizziness Vertigo Anxiety

A while back I blogged about the links between anxiety and dizziness and how more often than not the two seem to go together: people experiencing dizziness as part of an anxiety attack or a panic attack. Today I want … Continue reading

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