| Overview: | | | | Stressor Foods: |
| What is General Anxiety Disorder? Most physicians | | | | There are many ingredients in foods that can cause |
| describe GAD as a feeling of constant worry or | | | | your anxiety to flare. However, these three are the |
| anxiousness. These feelings can occur out of the blue | | | | most common. |
| and during any event. For me, my attacks would | | | | 1) Sugar |
| always come early morning during the workweek. The | | | | 2) Alcohol |
| embarrassing trips to the hospital as I claimed to my | | | | 3) Caffeine |
| employer that I was having a heart attack left me | | | | One recent study claimed that dairy foods and MSG |
| mortified. | | | | may also lead to an anxiety attack. |
| However, after a dozen or so these false claims they | | | | What can you do? |
| got use to it. A lot of people have gone to the ER | | | | See a physician if your symptoms interfere with your |
| confusing an anxiety attack with a heart attack. It is | | | | daily functioning. |
| actually not that uncommon. Even so, it does get | | | | A trip to the doctor's office will most likely get you a |
| costly. | | | | prescription that can help Treat Anxiety. However, |
| Symptoms: | | | | most medicines come with side effects, sometimes |
| So what exactly are the symptoms of General | | | | dangerous ones. I have gone down the medication |
| Anxiety Disorder? | | | | road in the past, but found that after a few months of |
| GAD has the following symptoms: | | | | medication my symptoms had become worse than |
| Problems concentrating | | | | before. |
| Worry that is out of proportion to the situation that is | | | | I became depressed and a recluse. Both my |
| occurring. | | | | professional and personal relationships suffered |
| Sweating and intestinal problems | | | | severely. |
| Exhaustion | | | | Fed up, I went on a mission to find a better way. I |
| Irritability | | | | began to research certain foods and herbs. There are |
| Heart Palpitations | | | | a number of foods to avoid and vitamins and herbs |
| Feeling like your internally shaking | | | | that you can take, which will in some cases help |
| Headaches | | | | quickly treat your anxiety symptoms. I prefer this |
| Restlessness | | | | approach over medicines. However, they are only |
| Shortness of breath (My personal favorite) | | | | treatments not cures. |
| Unsteady Legs | | | | In 2008 one of my wife's friends who happened to |
| Causes: | | | | also be an anxiety sufferer introduced me to a new |
| Generalized anxiety disorder is rapidly becoming a | | | | theory in the cure of anxiety. She said that there is |
| common condition. The cause is not really known. | | | | one difference between those who eliminate panic |
| However, doctors claim that biological and | | | | attacks in their lives and those who do not. |
| psychological factors play a key role. Certain stressful | | | | It doesn't require medications or other ancient and |
| life situations may also contribute to Anxiety as well as | | | | out-dated relaxation exercises. No meditations or |
| certain foods that nutritionist call "stressor foods." | | | | breathing lessons. The true key to overcoming anxiety |
| Anxiety can start at any time in life, even childhood. | | | | is when you no longer fear the thought of having a |
| Most people with GAD claim that they have been | | | | panic attack. I thought this sounded crazy. However, it |
| anxious for as long as they can remember. While little | | | | was true. This new system allows a person to shatter |
| is known about the causes one fact remains that | | | | the cycle of anxiety allowing them to return to normal |
| women suffer from anxiety more often than men do. | | | | everyday living. |