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The Anxiety Epidemic - Why are more people suffering from Anxiety?

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Channel: Natural Health Remedies · 2015 · People & Blogs

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The Anxiety Epidemic 
Although people have suffered from anxiety or panic attacks since the dawn of time, the sheer numbers over the past 50 years have increased to an epidemic rate.  Why?
Our lives have changed so much in the last 50 years for example 
• The working week has increased, it’s not uncommon for people to work 60 hours a week.
• We are all leading much busier lives nowadays.
• Social and family networks tend to have broken down.
• 24 hr News channels show only negative worrying events.
• Money matters play an ever more crucial role in our lives.
• We spend much more time travelling on crowded trains and planes, and driving on busy roads.
• Technical innovations such as the internet, mobile phones mean our brains are bombarded with constant information.
I also believe we have lost touch with our inner mind and bodies, for example
• Being in touch with nature and the countryside has a positive effect on our bodies.
• Our eating habits have changed so much, with fast food, chocolate, coke cola, etc.
• Are lives are ruled by consumerism.
• Some people are more likely to make a comment on a social network than have a meaningful conversation with their family face to face.
• We simply don’t exercise enough.
Our mind and bodies have not changed much since we lived as cavemen and cavewomen.  Back then we would have lived off the land and ate fruit, fish and meat.  We would have exercised by foraging for food. We would have lived in groups having family support networks.   Money, work stresses and consumerism would not have entered our heads.   I’m not saying life was a bed of roses thousands of years ago.  Venturing out potentially meant coming across a wild animal which could attack us.  In this scenario the fight or flight response was totally appropriate and worked.  Today will still need this function but more commonly it’s being triggered for all the wrong reasons. 


The Psychological Symptoms of Panic Attacks
There are psychological symptoms to panic attacks.  Once a panic attack is triggered we tend to perceive everything in our environment as a potential threat.  This leads to us psychologically exaggerating the dangers around us.  The reason our minds do this is because our rational mind is bypassed to survival mode.  Anything in our immediate environment can potentially make us fearful, resulting in us feeling that we should remove ourselves from the situation.
These psychological symptoms are often called the ‘mental side’ of anxiety and can make you feel
• Detached from your body
• Like your dying
• Apprehensive and fearful
• Feel like you’re going crazy or mad
• Constantly worrying
• The need to escape
In doing the above our mind has shut down the rational side of our brain and falsely activated the flight or fight.   THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOU.  WHAT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IS NONE OF IT IS REAL – IT’S YOUR MIND BLUFFING.  IT’S TRICKING YOU TO BELIEVE THERE IS A PROBLEM OR THREAT. 
Positive Panic Attacks will show you how to overcome both physical and mental symptoms in this course.

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