There is not much research per-say on anxiety.It is considered 'normal" at a resonable level. When it becomes extreme, they say it's personality Disorder, manic-depression,bipolar,shizophrenia,psychosis. We get boxes and name and MEDICATED, but researched...UM-not really!!

ta darlin....such a shame....dont know what box i am in i think maybe bi-polar....up down i go !

OMG! We could be TWINS! I could have wrote your post! Yeah! WHY DON'T THEY FIND A CURE? And like you, running all around like a mad woman, doing this and that, 100 things at one time, sometimes yelling and screaming, animals looking at me like I've lost my mind, etc., etc., etc. I'm right there with you girlfriend!

Hell I can't even find a decent pdoc. Just pull out the damn prescription pad. What good is that? I've been on so many different things and it will work for awhile and then POOF............ it's back.

Mine is so severe that I was put on SS disability 3 years ago. I thought I had it together and had not had a panic attack for over a year. Decided I was NOT going to let this thing control me and I took a leap of faith and opened my own business.

One year later and everything is back again. I've been diagnosed with so many different things by so many different doctors, but NONE of them really take the time to listen to EVERYTHING. They are too damn busy watching their watch. Heck, at least in years past you would get an hour............. what is it now, 45 minutes???

And then the health insurance business crap. If you are diagnosed with a "mental illness" of any kind, it's hard as hell to find a health insurance carrier. Luckily I have medicare, but I still need a supplement to go with it.......... and a drug plan......... and do you want to guess how many will cover drugs for mental illness? Especially when these doctors are trying this one and that one and this one and that one.

I have BEGGED for a study. Stick me somewhere, where an anxiety/panic/disorder department is doing a free study and study away! Figure me out! FIX IT! I want my OLD LIFE BACK!

I'll get off my soapbox now and let YOU back on. LOL!

i found ya linduh.....yeppers we are in a situation and you write it well... 100% agree darlin !

I Loved reading this!! =) Nicely put!

thankyou sweetie glad you enjoyed
love mistybladexxx

Hey wait a minute.................. You've changed your face, Mistyblade! You can't be doing that! PUT IT BACK! LOL!

Ya know................ it's too funny because the way we both sound sounds so funny to others, the way we describe it, the speed in which we speak it, the way we write it, etc., but it truly is our life.

I guess you just gotta find the humor......... without humor I'd be............ hell.............. I don't know where I'd be.

I was wearing my Tazmania Devil outfit yesterday. Went to my store and just went into overdrive. From one thing to another to another. I can be productive as hell, but NOBODY better get in my way. My part-timer just watches me. She knows better to say anything to me because if she disrupts me, I DISRUPT........... Don't break my concentration! I'm like a VCR in fast-forward............ but don't utter a word or you will throw me off all track. Not that I'm really ON track, I just think I am. I'm getting things done faster than Superman, but I will be doing one thing, see something else, go do that, see something else go do that, then go back to the first thing and finish that, then go back to the second thing to finish that, se e something else and go do that, and then go back and finish the second thing and it just goes on and on like that.

BUT NOBODY BETTER TALK TO ME! LOL!

Hope everyone has a GREAT Friday! Who shall I be today? Tazmanian Devil or MONK or hmmmmmmmmmmm............ let's see what the day shall bring!

I'm on an Anxiety Course but some of it is rubbish. I'm trying to fight my anxiety without medication although I'm on an anti-depressant which is supposed to help with anxiety. I just don't understand how to make the anxiety go away sadly. I run and listen to music when I'm anxious but other times it freezes me.

Love Helen.

There has been quite a bit of research done and there is a cure for anxiety. The physical symptoms of anxiety manifest because of disordered thinking. Our nerves then become sensitized so then even just the little things send us into a vicious cycle of anxiety and panic. Medications are of benefit but there is no magic potion that will cure anxiety. Read "Hope and Help for your Nerves" by Dr. Claire Weekes. AnxietyRidden has been posting the book on her journal. I ordered my copy from Amazon.com. It only cost $7.00. I don't take meds and am enjoying life again. Anxiety related to other psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar, OCD, etc of course require more extensive treatment. I'm just speaking to those who have straight anxiety disorder.

I must respectfully disagree with vanilla. Anxiety is not caused by disordered thinking, but by a more complex disturbance in neurotransmitters. But I do want to agree with vanilla that there has been research done by many people. Each one of these people have a theory of how to treat anxiety. Unfortunately there is no magic wand, and you have no idea how much pain it causes me to admit that. At this point in time, with psychiatry still in a very young developmental stage, the best we can do is a trial and error aproach to medications and/or therapy. Wow, is that depressing or what?

Meow, wow you sound like a very depressed person with bleak outlook for your future. With a mindset like yours, then you are correct there will be no cure (for you anyways). Are you a scientist? Do you study the brain? A disturbance of neurotransmitters? Is that some sort of fancy word for fear? Because FEAR of FEAR is what causes panic attacks. There is no scientific explanation for a disorder that is simply caused by your own thoughts and reactions to your thoughts. If I chose to be scared of my palpitating heart then I would have a panic attack. Since I know my palpitating heart is my sensitized nerves on alert for anything fearful then I am able to go about my life without adding second fear to my anxiety symptoms without further panic attacks. Does that mean I fixed my own neurotransmitters?

Actually I really am not depressed at the moment. I am a critical care nurse and I enjoy reading neurobiology. I do hope that there is a cure one day, I also hope there is a cure for diabetes. There is some move on the diabetes front. "Neurotransmitters" is not some fancy word for FEAR. It is how our brains work chemically. Bleak outlook? I see daily the things that people fight against. The obsticles that are overcome. I am awed every time I see a person come back from a coma and start to rebuild their lives. I like to try to be respectful when I post and not jump to conclusions. I am glad that your aproach to anxiety works for you. If it works, keep it up. But to reject every other explanation is not respectful to other's experiences.

I need to relax. Thank you for sharing. Sometimes I get so worked up I lose my mind. I can't seem to calm down. I don't like living my life like this. I don't think there will ever be a cure. I wish there were but life just isn't that easy.

May I quote you on saying..."Anxiety is not caused by disordered thinking, but by a more complex disturbance in neurotransmitters." then followed with this "But to reject every other explanation is not respectful to other's experiences." Is this not what you just did in your first post? If I did not have the information that I have now and know how to overcome this and had just read your first post...I would be in despair. I would be so discouraged that this is just the way life is and the only thing that will cure me is medications. I refuse to accept that as an answer because I know better. I feel sorry for the others who read your post and feel like they are now stuck in a life of hell.

i thank you all for the info i will take it all on board and try and process it.

love mistyblade xxx