Real
Help for Anxiety
Brought
to You By
TopLifeSolutions.com
Living Bigger, Better,
Brighter
Simpler than You
Think .....
. . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
Join
Today
Live Bigger, Better,
Brighter ....
it's simpler than you think
Click
HERE to Join
TopLifeSolutions.com
is part of the Kind
Communities Initiative and is
non-religious and non-political, dedicated to
the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities.
|
Cure Anxiety
Although depression and anxiety are
considered to be 2 quite different disorders, they frequently occur
together.
What
are the Anxiety Disorders?
It is believed by some researchers that
as
many as 30% of the general population may suffer from one or more of
the anxiety disorders, to at least some degree. So if you
struggle with fear, anxiety, or low mood, you are not alone!
Types
of Anxiety Disorders
"The anxiety disorders" is a name given to a range of disorders having
different characteristics. These are:
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
(GAD),
suffering from worries, fears and stress even though the particular
concerns may not be, of themselves, at all important. The
person
may have difficulty thinking straight or even making simple decisions.
- Phobias, suffering from a
specific fear
of an object or situation, or fear of social engagement, usually due to
fear of extreme embarrassment or humiliation. The person may
go
to extremes to avoid the situation or object which is the source of
fear, dramatically limiting quality of life.
- Panic Disorder, where
feelings of
terror, or overwhelming dread strike very suddenly and repeatedly,
sometimes in response to known triggers, and perhaps for no apparent
reason at all. Almost always there are extreme physical
symptoms
related to heart rate, breathing difficulties, nausea, and many others,
which may or may not be apparent to bystanders.
- Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD),
reliving the terror of a past event which continues to maintain an
intense emotional hold over the person's present life, even though it
may have occurred a long time ago. Usually involves
hypervigilance (a state of heightened awareness of possible danger or
threat) or some degree of "numbing" where the person has a flattened
mood and may be unresponsive to other people or events.
- Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD),
usually characterized by extreme stress relating to objects, people or
situations, and repetitive thoughts or rituals which the sufferer finds
as distressing not only because of the urgency and anxiety surrounding
the thoughts and behaviour, but because they are quite outside of their
control.
- Depression (which is further
broken down
into differing types of depression) is not actually an anxiety disorder
but a mood disorder often associated with anxiety. Depression may not
mean "sadness" (which is the common misconception), and rather may
include amongst its many symptoms a flatness or "nothingness" as many
describe it.
How Do
These Anxiety Disorders Arise?
Usually anxiety disorders are observed to be more prevalent in families
with a history of anxiety disorders. A sufferer can most
probably
remember a fearful, controlling, or over-anxious parent, and so on back
down the family line. This suggests both genetics and
environment
as causes, and recent research bears this out.
However even though genetics may lay the groundwork for anxiety
disorders to arise, we cannot predict whether that will eventually be
the case -- environmental factors are just as important and may build a
temperament which entirely counters genetic factors.
What
Types of Treatment are Available?
It should never be simply presumed that if someone has all the symptoms
of anxiety, that they have an anxiety disorder! This is
because
there are several physical illnesses which also produce those symptoms,
and left untreated these could have tragic consequences.
Always,
always, have your symptoms thoroughly investigated by your doctor to
exclude underlying pathology. (Eg thyroid disorder can produce all of
the symptoms of the anxiety disorders, and yet is frequently missed.)
Most treatments conventionally used take weeks or months to achieve
benefit, if ever. These include a range of medications, and
psychotherapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
People often try to cope with their disorder by using dangerous
strategies such as drinking too much, or using illicit drugs.
Good therapy will seek to discover if these types of coping strategies
are being used, and ensure that treatment for these forms part of the
program, with the aim of full recovery so the person can go on to live
a full and satisfying life.
Typically, therapies offered by qualified health practitioners are
"evidence based" meaning that they have been clinically tested and
therefore objectively evaluated. You will notice that it is
rare
to read client testimonials for these therapies, not only because it
would be unethical to ask for them, but because the research speaks for
itself.
Where "therapies" or "treatments" are offered by unqualified people,
particularly over the internet, it is common to see testimonials, and
you should keep in mind not only that there is no proof that these
testimonials are real, but that 1000 testimonials from happy clients
often hide 100000 disappointed stories from clients who got no such
result.
The problem is that "placebo effect" (positive benefit arising merely
out of the belief that the "treatment" will work) is at work in every
case, so that there will always be people who improve, but they may be
very few amongst many. The placebo effect is at work in
clinical
trials also, but in properly-designed trials this is taken into account
in order to more properly judge the effectiveness of the treatment.
The program which we offer has been trialled around the world, and our
actual research papers, as well as the research of others, is on this
site and the "mother" site: www.bmsa-int.com.
Our program is quite different from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and
has a far higher success rate. We focus on identifying the
conditioned triggers to your problem thoughts and behaviour, and use
modern BMSA (Brief, Multi-sensory Activation) techniques to completely
alter your natural responses to those old triggers.
For example, you might have the thought of making a telephone call, and
feel highly anxious about that. Utilising BMSA techniques,
you
could quite deliberately try to get anxious about making that call, but
simply be unable to do so. Instead, you would find to your
surprise that you felt quite calm.
We do not offer testimonials, but do describe actual case studies on
this site which may assist you to build a realistic expectation of what
you may experience with this program, and at the same time protect the
privacy of our clients.
Click HERE to read about our anxiety program.
|
