An Internet Article about Abusiveness

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What Is An Anxiety Attack

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Coping in an anxiety making world

Does this sound like you?

For many people, anxiety comes from clinging to the illusion of control... People think that they can control what happens in their country and with other people. They search for ways to control their environment to ensure safety and curtail anxiety. But the tighter you cling to the idea of controlling uncontrollable events, the greater your anxiety—because you inevitably fail.

Dualistic thinking—black-or-white, all-or-nothing thinking—also fuels anxiety: America is either safe or it isn’t; the economy is either swelling or sinking. There are no shades of gray, even though, as Tsilimparis said, few absolutes exist in life.

People with elevated anxiety also hold certain rigid beliefs about how they should live their lives, known as adhering to a “consensus reality,” or one-way thinking, he said. For instance, you might believe that by the time you’re 28, you should be married and have children. Or you might define happiness as owning your own home or success as making a six-figure salary.

What also drives anxiety is perfectionism—“you either succeed at 100 percent or fail at 97 percent”— and relying on others’ approval... Looking for outside validation inevitably leaves people walking on eggshells and panicked over whether they’ve said the right thing or have done the right thing.

If so, consider reading this article, from which the quote comes, and which goes on to discuss ways to manage your anxiety in an ever-faster, ever-louder, ever-more connected world.

If you're into thinking about ways the modern world may be contributing to panic and anxiety and other mental health ailments, we've discussed this kind of thing a number of times in the past here on PANIC!

Painting: "Subway", George Tooker, via.

An agoraphobic tells her story

Here is the winning essay from a writing contest aimed at lifting the stigma of mental illness, by an Irish 27 year old named Fiona Bradshaw. Following is just a taste:

Most people get up, go to work, go out and play and, in general, live their lives from day to day. Bills, mortgages, kids, jobs -- these are day to day concerns. The 'normals', as I call them, don't consider their mental health, or at least they don't need to -- why would they? I know that when I was well, I didn't consider mine. Not until its fragility was unveiled to me.

I'm not sure if I always had agoraphobia and panic attacks but since my mental health failed me, my world has shrunk epically and I am now tethered to home. I have, for all intents and purposes, become a prisoner in my own life.

But at least I have the best family and friends in the world to count on. Still, it took me a long time to find the confidence to explain everything to them. It also took me a long time to discover what I was going to have to explain.

Many books and many therapists later I think I have a handle on what handles me. I know what happens to me when I panic, I know why it happens. Still, when it creeps over me I always seem to fold because it is so brutally terrifying.

PANIC! wishes you well, Fiona!

Starting or stopping anti depressant use can be an unpleasant experience

To many with panic, anxiety, and/or depression, SSRIs are a gift -- a ticket to contentment, to an ease of mind that makes life liveable again. But anti-depressant use can be unpleasant, especially as you're beginning or stopping usage, as one recent article discusses:

Difficulties can develop at any time in the course of antidepressant therapy, but they seem to cluster at the beginning and the end.

Although it usually takes weeks for a therapeutic response, many adverse reactions—nausea, headache, somnolence, and agitation—appear soon after the first dose.

On the other hand, when some of the most widely used agents are discontinued, multiple symptoms across diverse bodily systems are common.

Early and late difficulties may be understood in terms of antidepressant neurobiology, said Dr. Pierre Blier, professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa.

“When serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SRIs] are initiated, there's an immediate surge in the neurotransmitter throughout the brain,” Dr. Blier said.

“It appears to be accentuated in certain regions [such as those that regulate nausea], while in areas involved in depression, like the hippocampus and frontal cortex, the surge of serotonin goes down because of negative feedback actions.”

Specifically, autoreceptors on serotonin neurons are activated by elevated levels of the neurotransmitter, inhibiting its release. Over time—the weeks before an effective response—these receptors become desensitized, allowing serotonin to rise in a consistent manner.

Discontinuation phenomena probably involve multiple neurotransmission systems that must adapt to reduced serotonin, Dr. Blier said.

I can speak to the unpleasantness of starting and stopping SSRIs from personal experience. While I've never experienced the heightened anxiety that some report when starting a new SSRI, I've definitely gone through the frustration, discussed in the article, of waiting for an SSRI to start working ("It's like purgatory," as I told my psychiatrist). And when coming off Paxil last year, I was in a constant dizzy-zombie state, punctuated by occasional moments of feeling like there was an electrical storm passing through my brain. (Apparently, this is called "the zaps," and I'm not the only one to have experienced 'em.)

Overall, though, in my experience the good of SSRIs far outweighs the bad; I'm very happy to have the opportunity to use SSRIs as part of my efforts to manage my panic, anxiety, and depression.