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About 15 years ago, I sat eating lunch in a restaurant, something I used to do on a fairly regular basis. I was about 15 minutes into the meal when all of a sudden, I felt an overwhelming need to get out of the restaurant. It was very serious. In a matter of minutes, I flagged down a server, paid my bill and left. Once outside, I began to breath normally again. Then I looked around and became a little upset. What the hell was the matter with me? This had never happened before. The sense of urgency to escape was so intense, I felt like I was going to die. From that point forward, every time I tried to go to a restaurant, I had a similar experience in varying degrees of intensity. I didn't understand it and I couldn't explain it.
A short while later, I moved away from that town (a small town) and I moved back to the city. I was a city girl at heart and had moved to that small town about two years earlier. Once back in the city, I resumed my restaurant activity, as normal, but it was some time before I noticed that going to restaurants no longer caused a panic reaction in me. What was the difference? Why, for that 2 year period, was restauranting such an unpleasant experience?
Well time passed and with age comes wisdom. Years later, I've had occasion to look back on that time in my life and I have, of course, realized that I was experiencing panic attacks and since becoming a stress management consultant, I have learned about panic and anxiety and I now know that the experience of living in that small town was very stifling to me for some reason and that feeling of suffocation was manifesting itself in panic attacks at restaurants.
The human mind is a very strange creature. It will come up with many ways to protect you from whatever causes you fear or trauma. The Endocrine System is responsible for producing hormones for all kinds of things and each hormone has a counterpart to balance it out. It really doesn't take much for things to get out of balance. Long-term chronic distress is one of the biggest causes of imbalance in the body's hormone production center. Thankfully, there are many natural solutions to rebalancing the body's hormones.
The solution to my problem happened by accident - I moved away from the place that was making me feel stifled. I wonder, if I knew then what I know now about stress, hormones, panic and anxiety, how I would have handled my developing panic attacks. Perhaps I would have tried flower essences or aromatherapy, perhaps I would have cut sugar out of my diet (sugar messes with the pancreas, a major component of the Endocrine System), perhaps I would have gotten into the great outdoors more often, perhaps I should have gotten some more exercise, perhaps I could have visited the city more often, and the list goes on.
As I have grown older, I have learned that recognizing and accepting stress when it is happening is the first step and I have also learned that we can all benefit greatly just from understanding more about stress and the body's response to it. If you know what stress is and how your body responds to it, then you will be far more likely to keep your toolbox stocked with the right stress management tools for you.
I was lucky, my panic attacks were mild and they only lasted for two years and the cure was accidental. Not everyone is so lucky. For some people, anxiety and panic, literally controls their lives as was the case with Charles Linden which led to his development of the Linden Method for curing anxiety disorder. Watch the video below and then click on the link to cure your anxiety once and for all.
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