Anxiety And Panic Disorders – How To Deal With The Double Disaster
Anxiety disorders and panic disorders can cause some truly awful feelings and symptoms. The symptoms of a panic attack can be extremely uncomfortable, such as dizziness, heavy sweating, hard breathing, and uncontrollable shaking. A panic attack is an exaggerated version of the human fight-or-flight response to danger. When you have a panic disorder, you may experience all these symptoms even though there is no actual danger to trigger it. An anxiety attack, on the other hand, has symptoms that often mirror those of a heart attack, including chest discomfort, tingling or numbness in the extremities, and an impending sense of doom. It is unfortunately all too easy for a panic attack to trigger an anxiety attack, or vice versa.
What Are Anxiety Disorders?
An anxiety disorder is present any time some form of anxiety interferes with your daily life. For example, you may be too nervous to go to the store one day, but be fine the next. People with anxiety disorders may develop various phobias, like claustrophobia. But in almost all cases, anxiety disorders are linked to specific fears of activities, situations, or events.
What About Panic Disorders?
In addition to the often differing symptoms when compared to anxiety disorders, panic disorders are usually diagnosed when these symptoms suddenly start and stop with no discernible trigger. This is extremely disheartening to the sufferer, since they cannot seem to control the onset of these symptoms, or avoid any noticeable triggers.
Anxiety and Panic Disorders Together
It is not uncommon for panic disorders to lead to the development of anxiety disorders, due to the constant stress and fear of having a panic attack. Often the panic attack will start being a trigger for an anxiety attack, and soon progresses to the point that the worry over having another panic attack is in itself triggering another anxiety attack.
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Living With Anxiety and Panic Disorders
It can be extremely difficult to live a normal life if you suffer from either or both of these conditions. Even things like commuting to work become hazardous, as a sudden panic attack can make it difficult or impossible to drive safely. A sudden panic attack in the office can be both embarrassing and interfere with your work.
The biggest thing to keep in mind is that even though the symptoms of anxiety and panic disorders can be frightening, they don’t actually cause physical harm. Think calming thoughts, and avoid dwelling on the symptoms. If you suspect you have an panic or anxiety disorder, you should visit your doctor. There may be medication that, in conjunction with therapy, can greatly ease or eliminate your anxiety disorder or panic disorder. Take up meditation, and try to eliminate as much stress from your life as you can. If you are working too hard, take time off regularly to relax and reflect. These are just a few of the things you can do to help reduce the effects of an anxiety or panic disorder.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/anxiety-and-panic-disorders-how-to-deal-with-the-double-disaster-709319.html
What’s your Presidential Disaster Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico?
Everyone’s doing a lot of conjecturing about what the President of the US should have done from day one. My guess is he did everything he could.
But once the leak is halted there’s likely to be a Presidential Disaster Declaration. All over the Gulf Coast Emergency Managers at all levels of government and in the private sector will be trying to put response plans within their own agencies and jurisdictions they’ve been formulating since the first week after the leak started. FEMA will arrive on the coast if it isn’t already there so’s to coordinate Federal, State and local responses. Resources will be brought from all over the US to address every facet of the somewhat fluid situation on the coast.
But the resources are going to be limited and even so the cost will be astronomical. Getting the oil and methane out of the water of the Gulf and re-oxygenating it is the sort of matter nobody even knows how to begin on this scale.
There will be questions of wildlife rescue, toxic threats to residents, possibly some evacuations, everything that can be done to neutralize the damage and reverse the processes set in motion by that quantity of oil in a vital body of salt water.
If you were the president how would you organize those activities in the form of a Presidential Disaster Declaration?
What would your priorities be? The economic devastation to the fishing industry? The threats to the residents? Research to find ways to remove the methane from the water and replace it with oxygen?
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We’ve all had a lot of answers but mostly haven’t known the questions. In large part we still don’t.
But if you were responsible how would you handle it?
Old Dog, those are all valid questions but they aren’t valid answers unless you’re suggesting the response should be to track down those who didn’t do things differently and identify them for whatever purpose.
The question is about how to respond to what has happened. Priorities, actions, who does what and what gets sacrificed to allow them to do it.
Thanks for the reply
My guess is that he did and is doing everything that he could / can possibly do. People blame him for what? – I really don’t know.
If I were the President, yes, most definitely, there would be a Presidential disaster Declaration. I would assign one person / agency in charge as oversight and to whom all agencies report daily their operations….central location for all managers. Priorities would definitely be clean-up of oil; wildlife rescue and rehabilitation; economic and legal assistance for those effected to recover their losses; and in-depth analysis and regulation of continued deep water oil and gas exploration so this kind of accident never, ever happens again.
What is the Republican’s response to the oil spill?
What is their response? What do they think America should do because of the spill? How do they think America should change in response to the disaster? What do they think should happen to BP? What is their ideas on preventing another disaster of this kind from occurring again?
First, the response is one of empathy for those who are affected the most. They have lost their income and maybe their fishing industry for decades to come if the leak is not stopped. The most important part of the process is twofold, stopping the leak and compensation for those who need help, the compensation is starting to trickle in, but more is needed soon. The leak on the other hand is going to prove to be more of a problem for everybody.
The handling of this disaster is in itself a disaster. Citing the Jones Act, aid from other nations was refused, the problem of plugging the leak was left to BP and what resources they could find, but the Army Corps of Engineers should have been dispatched from the get go. The outcome may not have changed, but at least there would have been some recognition from the administration that this is serious. The Jones Act should have been suspended until the emergency was over, the help from other nations early on may have reduced the amount of damage.
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BP has to survive in order to aid in paying for the damages and keep people employed. The Russians, early on, suggested a small nuclear device be inserted and exploded in the well to seal it. They claim to have used this process successfully on wells that became a problem. Why this was not considered is a mystery.
Plans for prevention are only as good as the knowledge of exactly what happened to create this leak. Until there is a thorough understanding of the cause, prevention plans cannot be instituted with any assurance of success. There are many questions posed by this problem which have not been answered as yet, and may never be.
Considering the response time; would you rather Bush or 0bama be the POTUS if you were in a disaster?
Bush days, while the Democrat Gov of La. and Mayor of New Orleans sat around.l and now 60 days and much oil destruction of wildlife, natural resources under 0bama.?
GWB any day!
What do you think of Obama’s response to the oil disaster?
Do you think that he cares? Aren’t these the red states who really didn’t vote for him?
What response?
Overall which is slower: a snail, a tortoise or Obama’s gulf disaster response?
lol… Obama’s mind was on golf, instead of gulf those first weeks. He’s such a busy man.
A Recipe For Success, or Disaster?
I’ve been doing a study lately of so-called “intuition experts.” I’ve been curious to see what else is out there, and to see how they present themselves and their work.
What I’m finding is that 9 out of 10 “experts” claim to have been born with an amazing sense of intuition, or have been “clairvoyant” since they were small children. Stories abound about seeing angels, talking with spirits, and watching clouds of colors swirl around people.
Those kinds of stories are fun to read. But in my mind, useless.
Why?
Because if they’ve been intuitively-gifted their entire lives, how much good is that going to do me? What do they know about my struggles, my doubts, and my learning process?
Sure, they can tell me what it’s like to see firecrackers of light pop off someone’s head. But big whoopee, y’know? That’s like having someone in a candy store lean out the window and tell you how good the chocolate tastes. But you don’t care what they think – you want to eat the chocolate for yourself, yes?
It’s important to having inside knowledge, of course. If someone has never tasted chocolate, would you really trust their advice about how to make a truffle or a chocolate macaroon?
It’s inside wisdom that is really crucial: the wisdom gained by going from “not having it” to “having it.” That speaks of experience, overcoming adversity, and transformation.
Why this is crucial to you
If you want to learn to make chocolate, you’re better off listening to someone who has put in the time on the kitchen.
If you want to learn about having a successful business, you’re better off listening to someone who has struggled and succeeded, rather than someone who was just handed a successful company straight out of business school.
Example: My buddy Mark
When it comes to money, there’s no one I listen to more than my long-time friend and mastermind partner, Mark Silver. Why? Was he born with a silver spoon in his mouth (no pun intended)? Was he handed financial success right out of college? Not at all. He, by his own admission, struggled with finances for over nine years until things started to click.
Why would you want to listen to him, then?
Because he knows what it takes to make the transformation. He’s not leaning out of the candy store window because his parents own the store – he’s inside the store because he pounded on the door for years until he figured out how to get in – and now he’s in there, eating up all the chocolate. If you want to learn how to make the transformation, he’s the man.
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
So if you want to learn intuition, are you better off learning from someone who learned it themselves, who made the transformation? Or from someone born into their vision, who got handed the silver spoon without having to go through the struggle?
But how? I haven’t got years to learn – I need this now!
Many people I talk with who want to be more intuitive say, “This is great – I really want to learn this. But I can’t wait ten years; I need help now.”
I understand – really, I do. And here’s what I say in response: Good.
Why “good”?
Because if you’re motivated, you can accomplish more than you know. If you’re motivated, you’ll work at it harder at it than someone who’s just curious about it. And the old maxim on this one still stands: “It’s not quantity, it’s quality.”
You don’t have to devote a decade to learning to be intuitive – if you apply yourself, you can make huge strides in a short amount of time.
I read an interview with a famous artist once, who was talking about how he gets approached all the time by people who say, “I wish I had your talent.” His response? “It’s not about talent – everyone has talent. What makes an expert is discipline.”
If you’re willing to practice, to bring intuition into every part of your life, you can make huge strides in less time than you think.
In my own case, when I started learning intuition, I crawled along at a snail’s pace for the first few months. But then, I had a quantum leap in my intuitive abilities over the next six months – because I got dedicated, and practiced everywhere I went.
Listening to someone who was born with an ability can be inspiring. But if you want to experience a personal transformation, talk to someone who knows the challenges you face, the steps you need to take, and can share with you the inside wisdom about to get yourself into the candy store.
And then, apply yourself. Work for it. Pound on that door until it opens.
Unlike the “born with it” model, it’s a recipe you can use.
Adam Kayce
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/a-recipe-for-success-or-disaster-86363.html
BP Disaster Response… Why is it? BP is not responding with representatives having British speaking accent?
I am interested in your feeling on the matter. I feel BP should be responding to America with representative’s speaking with a British accent.
Cause their a multinational company, with a majority of Americans working for them.
Can Obama manage Health Care better than his response to this Oil Spill disaster?
At this point, I don’t believe the man can find his own hindquarters with a map and both hands. When the health issues from exposure to all this oil hits the residents of the Gulf Coast, how many will be turned away because Obamacare does not cover it?
Nope, and this joker is gonna ruin everything he touches..I hope our country isn’t in shambles by the time his term is up… EVERY ONE OF HIS ACTIONS (not his mouth, but his actions) SAYS HE HATES AMERICA!!!
BP Rejects Expert Volunteers For Disaster Response
6/14/10: MSNBC’s Chuck Todd interviews Don Abrams of OilSpillVolunteers.com, who describes how BP has rejected the help of thousands of volunteers, many with expert training and experience.
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