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Social Anxiety Treatment – Without Drugs – Is It Possible?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

If you are a social anxiety sufferer and you’ve been prescribed any of the dozens of available drugs I’m sure you’ve either read about, or experienced first hand some of the side effects.

Nearly all of the drugs prescribed for social anxiety treatment (I’m including panic attacks and anxiety attacks as they are all much the same) will not cure the problem.

That’s right, they will not cure the problem. They merely mask or lessen the symptoms. Now, if you’ve had a panic attack while taking (say) Beta Blockers you’ll realise what a waste of time the mediation really is.

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I was once prescribed Beta Blockers for my anxiety attacks and I stupidly expected them to stop the attacks from starting. They didn’t, they just kept my heart beating at a nice slow pace while the rest of me was going berserk.

Having a panic attack but at the same time having a calm heart rate is not a nice experience I can tell you. Almost as bad as having the panic attacks anyway.

Needles to say I threw the drugs straight in the trash. Knowing I was more or less on my own with my anxiety problem I decided to research natural cures, if possible.

There were many types of cures to be found but they ranged from the absolute useless to the downright strange.

I tried breathing exercises and hypnosis (not cheap!) but neither had any real effect on my anxiety attacks.

I continued searching and researching and nothing seemed to work for me. I almost gave up hope that I’d get these things under control one day.

My problem started after a motorcycle accident. I lost control of my motorcycle one day while riding home from work. I slid into oncoming traffic (ouch!) and woke up with a crowd around me.

At that point I actually felt fine, in no pain and all I wanted was to get up and get my bike and get on home. Little did I realise that I’d smashed my wrist to almost dust.

Anyway, to cut a long story short I started to get hot and bothered when I was near to a crowd of people. Didn’t even need to be a crowd, three or four would do it.

These anxiety attacks escalated over time until I was literally running from the scene panicking. A strange sight indeed.

So to cut another story short I recently attended a football game. Thousands of people around me for a few hours. And I was under total control the whole time. No drugs, just me and a few tricks to keep the panic attack at bay.

So to answer the title of this post, “social anxiety treatment – without drugs – is it possible?”

You betcha!