Article by Razif Radzi

Jane’s story

“Jane has always been a worrier, but it never interfered with her life before. Lately, however, she’s been feeling keyed up all the time. She’s paralyzed by an omnipresent sense of dread, and worries constantly about the future. Her worries make it difficult to concentrate at work, and when she gets home she can’t relax.Jane is also having sleep difficulties, tossing and turning for hours before she falls asleep. She also gets frequent stomach cramps and diarrhea, and has a chronic stiff neck from muscle tension. Jane feels like she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown.”

What is GAD?

Everyone gets worried sometimes, but if you have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD),it is overwhelming and can dominate one’s day with inappropriate and exaggerated worries and tension, even when there is nothing present to worry about. GAD is often accompanied by physical symptoms or sensations like a racing heart, breathlessness, nausea, can’t sleep,chest pains and sweating for example.

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) involves anxiety and worry that is excessive and unrelenting. This high-level anxiety makes normal life difficult and relaxation impossible.

If you have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) you may worry about the same things that other people do: health issues, money, family problems, or difficulties at work. But you take these worries to a new level.

Normal worry vs. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Normal” Worry:

* Your worrying doesn’t get in the way of your daily activities and responsibilities. * You’re able to control your worrying. * Your worries, while unpleasant, don’t cause significant distress. * Your worries are limited to a specific, small number of realistic concerns. * Your bouts of worrying last for only a short time period.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder:

* Your worrying significantly disrupts your job, activities, or social life. * Your worrying is uncontrollable. * Your worries are extremely upsetting and stressful. * You worry about all sorts of things, and tend to expect the worst. * You’ve been worrying almost every day for at least six months.

GAD sufferers seem unable to eliminate or ignore their concerns, even though they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the situation warrants.

GAD sufferers may often feel light-headed or out of breath. They may also feel nauseated or have to go to the bathroom frequently. Generalized anxiety is constant and can cause anxiety /panic attacks during the day and night. Night time anxiety and panic attacks are especially disturbing and can often wake the sufferer from deep sleep feeling particularly frightened. Night time anxiety can be minimized with some practical steps which minimize the impact of such things as blood sugar level fluctuations during sleep.

Individuals with GAD seem unable to relax, and they may startle more easily than other people. They tend to have difficulty concentrating and often, they have trouble falling or staying asleep.

The sort of symptoms you can experience in generalized anxiety are generally milder than those experienced during an anxiety / panic attack. Although distressing, they are usually much less extreme but may include some of the symptoms outlined on our anxiety symptoms list.

Your stomach may churn, your heart races or beats slower or you may get palpitations you may also feel sweaty or clammy, dizzy or shaky and general unrest.

You may just feel as if you have the Flu with shaky or weak legs and clamminess. You might get disturbing thoughts or feel depressed, this is perfectly normal and will pass, it is purely a response to anxiety and must not be mistaken for depression. Remember, these thoughts and feelings are harmless but unpleasant none the less.Treatment

The goal of treatment is to help you function well during day-to-day life. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and medications are the mainstays of treatment.

Medications are an important part of treatment. Once you start them, do not suddenly stop without talking with your health care provider.

Medications that may be used include:

* Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are usually the first choice in medications. Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) are another choice. * Other antidepressants and some antiseizure drugs may be used for severe cases. * Benzodiazepines such as alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), and lorazepam (Ativan) may be used if antidepressants don’t help enough with symptoms. Long-term dependence on these drugs is a concern. Short-term memory problems may also develop with long-term use. * A medication called buspirone may also be used.

Cognitive-behavioral therapies should be used together with drug therapy. Ten to 20 visits with a mental health professional should take place over a number of weeks.

Common parts of this therapy include:

* Gaining an understanding of, and control over distorted views of life stressors, such as other people’s behavior or life events. * Learning to recognize and replace panic-causing thoughts, decreasing the sense of helplessness. * Learning stress management and relaxation techniques to help when symptoms occur. * Learning not to quickly think that minor worries will develop into very bad problems.

Avoiding caffeine, illicit drugs, and even some cold medicines may also help reduce symptoms.

A healthy lifestyle that includes exercise, enough rest, and good nutrition can help reduce the impact of anxiety.

GAD affects about 4 million adult Americans and about twice as many women as men. Anxiety disorder comes on gradually and can begin across the life-cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age. It is typically diagnosed when someone spends at least 6 months worrying excessively about a number of everyday problems.

Can These Anxiety Medications CURE ?

Anxiety is often misdiagnosed as depression by physicians, who’s ‘knee jerk’ reaction is to reach for the prescription pad, not only is this premature but wholly inappropriate treatment for an anxiety condition. Anxiety isn’t caused by a mental or physical illness and certainly not by a chemical imbalance which requires medicinal ‘correction’… anxiety disorder is a behavioral condition and can not be eliminated by adding chemicals to the blood stream.

No matter what anxiety medication you may have been prescribed, it is NOT the solution… it may give you temporary relief from some acute symptoms, however, it will not provide the curative treatment you require in order to permanently eliminate your anxiety, panic attacks, OCD or/and phobias.

The ACTUAL solution will surprise you. It is so very, very simple and requires NO medicinal or psychological intervention at all.

What is expressed by Mr. Charles Linden, The Founder Of The Linden Method ?

“The switch, which is situated in the autonomic nervous system is called the Amygdala… to re-set it back to ‘normal’ doesn’t require an anxiety treatment. Under normal circumstances, the switch is set to OFF and is only switched ON when anxiety is needed, for instance, when there is something threatening us. When this switch becomes stuck ON, anxiety disorder becomes evident. This is when an anxiety treatment is required.

To be an effective anxiety treatment, this mechanism needs to be reset. This isn’t difficult to achieve. My anxiety treatment can achieve this through a structured, scientific and time tested method. The Linden Method is fast and simple to implement and also the most effective anxiety treatment available with an over 96.7% success rate. Tens of thousands of people have used this anxiety treatment in the last 12 years alone, enabling them to become 100% anxiety free… and stay that way!”

Scientific research supports his discovery

In December 2000, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health released a summary of research into the causes, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders. According to this report, more than 19 million adult Americans from age 18 to 54 suffer from one or more of the following anxiety disorders:

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

The NIMH then summarized the scientific research findings as follows:

Studies in animals and humans have focused on pinpointing the specific brain areas and circuits involved in anxiety and fear, which underlie anxiety disorders. Fear, an emotion that evolved to deal with danger, causes an automatic, rapid protective response that occurs without the need for conscious thought. It has been found that the body’s fear response is coordinated by a small structure deep inside the brain, called the Amygdala.

These brain findings point the way to new approaches, [to develop therapies for anxiety disorders] so that the “act now, think later” response can be interrupted.

The Linden Method IS THAT therapy! They have been using it for over 12 years to achieve 100% anxiety elimination!

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Graduated from Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

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