Anxiety is a stress related affliction which affects a great many people throughout the world. In fact, it is estimated that over 80 million people suffer from this debilitating condition worldwide. The symptoms of anxiety can start from early childhood and continue all through one's life, if not properly diagnosed and treated.
Stress and its more serious offshoot, anxiety, affect almost everyone at some time during their lifetime. It is common for people to become stressed, and therefore anxious, for a great number of reasons, such as because of financial worry, before examinations, at an interview or when having to give a speech - or any other important milestone in one's life. Symptoms of stress and anxiety include heart palpitations, sweaty hands, shakiness, dizziness, nausea and loss of appetite, to list just a few.
There is a multitude of ways in which one can treat the symptoms of stress and anxiety, but just how to deal with anxiety is a contentious subject. One school of thought is to go the serious medication route. This form of treatment is favoured by most doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, who believe that antidepressants and tranquilizers will lift one's mood and the relaxing effect of these drugs will neutralise the symptoms. This, unfortunately, is not the case, as these specific drugs are known to have some very nasty side effects on certain people, which include heightened depression (believe it or not), sleeplessness, loss of appetite and nausea, weakness, restlessness and, amazingly, in very extreme cases, to cause suicidal behaviour, hallucinations and even panic attacks.
As the generally accepted medication route seems not to be satisfactory, other methods of how to deal with anxiety should be attempted. The holistic or homeopathic way of treating stress and anxiety is fast becoming the treatment of choice, especially with those sufferers who prefer a more 'green' and natural way of dealing with problems. This method involves taking special compounds which are prepared by a homeopathic doctor, which tend to treat the entire body and mind as a whole, rather than only the specific symptoms associated with anxiety or stress. These natural practitioners will, in all probability, ask you to remove certain foodstuffs from your diet, such as caffeine and sugar, which are known to aggravate the symptoms, to ensure a faster recovery. A lack of magnesium and/or potassium is known to aid and abet the symptoms of anxiety, so these should be increased in one's daily intake, either by eating specific foods or by taking them in tablet form.
Finally, one could choose to buy an online coaching course offered by one of the gurus of this form of treatment, which does not include the taking of any medicines or compounds. These courses help one to identify the causes behind one's anxiety, so that it is easy to pinpoint the onset of an attack and take steps to neutralise it before it actually takes hold. The best known proponents of this course of treatment are Charles Linden who uses the Linden Method; and Barry McDonagh, whose system is known as Panic Away.
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