Comments on: Anxiety Attacks and Disorders

By: Bob Rosen

Bob Rosen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:44:33 +0000

In 1985 I couldn’t drive from 23rd street to 41st Street(Miami Beach) Oct of 1985 I started on Ativan and Tophrenil, 2 month later I drove from Miami to Cincinnati. The next 3 years were pure pleasure for me…2 pills in the morning and no anxiety or FEAR. Years later the problem returned…now I am on Efexxor. It doesn’t help as much…nothing against Efexxor…maybe the original JOLT of those first two pills just overpowered my fears. I just not as STRONG these days.

By: Glosinger

Glosinger — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:45:36 +0000

Severe anxiety disorder can ruin a persons’ life because it becomes the life. There is no explanation for why, it just is. Complete inability to function is the end result. There is no talking yourself out of it once it has reached it’s peak. It needs to be treated immediately, upon first presentation which is usually during puberty. If not treated early, there is no control and the only treatment is medication and extensive counseling. The biggest problem in treating the disorder early enough is that most parents don’t recognize the symptoms and attribute the cause as “just a stage they are going through.” Unless you have had a severe panic attack, you cannot understand how debilitating it is and how much it disables a person.

By: William Connellan

William Connellan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:13:25 +0000

ACCEPTANCE is a personality condition in whose pursuit a great many people are compelled to invest enormous amounts of time and effort. Sadly, the need for such efforts is an illusory one, premised on an unconscious conviction — acquired very early in life and thereafter remaining unchanged despite one’s chronological growth, unchanged and highly resistant to dismissal — that we are viewed by others as undeserving of permission simply to be.

Logically, the insatiable but irrational hunger for acceptance formed
during the individual’s early childhood would be among the “childish
things’” the Apostle Paul considered to have been “put away” in
the course of one’s path to adulthood.

Unfortunately, and in many cases tragically, the need for acceptance can be a lifelong
struggle. What’s been said about it so far  first, its unconscious nature, second, its formation and immobility at the most tender of ages — suggest virtual invulerability to dismissal. Unless it can be dismissed, however, the lives of persons afflicted with it can and too-often are blighted beyond measure, forever to be denied the security the unafflicted take for granted.

And why, really, should that be? Why is it even open to question, that without repeated assurance of the good opinion of “others”  and not only significant others  one does not have the right just to be. This has nothing to do with guilt: nothing remotely classifiable as evil or the bringing of harm has been committed. And yet, absent acceptance, a firm sense of worth (necessarily only temporary, needing constantly to be renewed) cannot exist.
Quite the opposite: the harm has been done not by the child but rather to him or her. And, except in the most extreme cases quite unintentionally.

By: Harry regis

Harry regis — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:17:14 +0000

Anxiety is a real and potentially adisorder,that can and will,have many have many negatiye consequences on a persons life.Unfortunately medication, seems to be the only one that woks the medical community needs to come up with some drugs with out the sideeffects.