| Thousands of people each year seek treatment for | | | | - Muscle tension |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). If you are | | | | - Disturbed sleep |
| suffering unnecessarily form GAD, anxiety or panic | | | | - Difficulty concentrating |
| attacks you may be all too aware of the symptoms | | | | - Fatigue |
| that either anxiety or a panic disorder can cause. | | | | - Restlessness |
| Whilst frightening, common symptoms of anxiety are | | | | - Irritability |
| often caused by the fear of actually suffering a panic | | | | - Increased startle response (over-reacting to shocks) |
| attack in the first place. Bouts of anxiety often occur | | | | - Increased heart rate |
| when something the sufferer would consider stressful | | | | - Shortness of breath |
| is about to happen. This could be a job interview, flying, | | | | - Dizziness |
| driving or even just leaving the house. In order to | | | | While some of these symptoms are similar to many of |
| temporarily stop the symptoms the sufferer often | | | | the symptoms associated with panic attacks, they are |
| avoids such situations. | | | | usually less intense. Another significant difference is |
| Panic Attack | | | | that unlike a panic attack the symptoms of anxiety |
| Symptoms can be sudden and extremely intense. | | | | may be persistent and very long lasting -- days, weeks |
| These symptoms can often occur "out of the blue", | | | | or even months. |
| last for up to 10 minutes and then subside. However, | | | | General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
| some attacks may last longer or happen one after | | | | GAD can be extremely debilitating and often the |
| another, making it difficult to work out when one attack | | | | sufferer has to adapt their lifestyle or change career |
| ends and another begins. | | | | because of their anxiety disorder. This can be |
| A panic attack is generally characterized by four or | | | | depressing for the sufferer and may lead to them |
| more of the following symptoms: | | | | becoming isolated and withdrawn. GAD is, as you can |
| - Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate | | | | see, a vicious cycle. The more a sufferer worries, the |
| - Sweating | | | | more likely they are to to feel disconnected from their |
| - Trembling or shaking | | | | normal life and extremely unhappy. |
| - Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering | | | | If you are suffering from any of these symptoms then |
| - Feeling of choking | | | | you are surely looking for a way to cure anxiety and |
| - Chest pain or discomfort | | | | stop panic attacks before they start. Therapy and |
| - Nausea or abdominal distress | | | | medication might help -- but may not fully relieve you |
| - Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint | | | | of the fear of having another anxiety attack. |
| - Feelings of unreality (derealization) or being detached | | | | Whichever of these symptoms you are dealing with -- |
| from oneself (depersonalization) | | | | effective treatment is available. |
| - Fear of losing control or going crazy | | | | A technique has been developed, which can remove |
| - Fear of dying | | | | the fear and break the cycle of panic attacks, GAD |
| - Numbness or tingling sensations (paresthesias) | | | | and anxiety allowing you to return to your normal |
| - Chills or hot flushes | | | | everyday life. This system has helped over forty |
| Anxiety | | | | thousand sufferers in the last seven years to |
| Anxiety, on the other hand, generally intensifies over a | | | | completely eliminate their symptoms. |
| period of time and is directly connected to | | | | Reality is you do not have to ever suffer from another |
| disproportionate worry. The symptoms of anxiety are | | | | panic or anxiety attack again -- how nice would that |
| similar to the ones above and may include: | | | | be? |