This means that eating fruit can satisfy your sweet tooth without having a bad effect on your Anxiety.

Other therapies We suggest you look at the guidelines published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on using complementary therapies for mental health problems: complementarytherapy.aspx. Mild depression can be treated through self-help - exercise is particularly helpful. Many studies have focused mainly on two specific portions of the brain that are responsible for inducing feelings of fear and anxiety. It stops me getting bigheaded. Choose specific goals Dont say my goal is to be happy. It is simply an unannounced trigger that sets off one's “fight or flight” defense mechanism, kicks in the adrenaline, and BAM! Bulimia Nervosa - periods of overeating followed by vomiting or purging to control weight alternate with periods of starvation. The answer is that the whole system evolved a very long time ago, when primitive people were living lives filled with physical danger. When Im very anxious I cant get to sleep because of the thoughts going round and round. Ive always slept well. Now that Im so used to it I dont need to count, and I just breathe slowly and evenly through the nose and from the abdomen, breathing out for slightly longer than I breathe in. I was told it was best to breathe 10-12 times a minute and I had to learn to slow down by timing myself with a stopwatch. Make a list of your own particular extreme thoughts, and then work out ways of countering them. Think back to the time before you had Anxiety. Even someone whose Anxiety has become this bad can start a recovery programme - there is no situation so bad that it cant be turned round by slow steady repeated steps towards carefully chosen goals. If you can get someone else to do the tiresome chores, if you never have to be the one thats responsible, if you can cut out having to deal with office politics, dead-end jobs and relationship issues, then you might secretly feel that Anxiety has some advantages. In the lift example the person might set boundaries in this way: How can you do that? There are millions of other people struggling with Anxiety just as you are every single day. For them, life becomes a question of doing anything to avoid another panic attack. I made really good improvement, I could still improve but the vast majority of the time it isnt a problem and I can live my life quite comfortably. When you set up a recovery programme you aim to work steadily, curbing your impatience and taking one step at a time. As if they are drowning in a sea of chaos and disparity,unable to pull themselves out.