As if it wasn't hard enough, simply searching online for an anxiety cure can perversely cause more anxiety by being overwhelmed within the myriad of conflicting and confusing remedies, potions, secrets and programs out there.
Your Doctor should be of course the first port of call, although in some cases, the prescription pad simply dulls the senses masking the condition for temporary respite never really permanently addressing the condition.
Usually most good Doctors will seek more permanent solutions to rid the anxiety forever.
Avoiding hype (and short-term profiteering) is my principle aim in this article.
Online solutions in the form of a self-help eBook probably will not help much as they are being read from a distorted perspective and the anxiety itself will probably subconsciously delete parts of even well written and authoritative works of merit.
I am not saying that anxiety symptoms cannot be addressed using self-help products.
Merely, I think it unlikely any permanent solution will be found within them by the very nature of anxiety disorder if done alone.
Anxiety Symptoms are a matter of degree and proportion; • Social Anxiety - Can be in the form of not wanting to answer the phone, or it could be agoraphobia or paranoia.
• Panic - Can be a slight increase of heart rate, clammy hands or a full-blown paralysing hyper-ventilation event.
• Anxiety - Can start with foot-tapping or nail-biting and end in depression or self-harm.
To be able to author an all-encompassing and definitive self-help eBook that addresses each variation within the context of the readers condition would be unlikely, probably very general and in my view potentially damaging.
Anxiety symptoms are fluid and can worsen if left unaddressed.
My argument is that professional help should be found as opposed to cheap unqualified self-help is really good advice.
In the UK we have the N.
H.
S.
Direct service and the N.
H.
S.
Choices website, (they also have a YouTube channel) which offers FREE and Expert advice so I would recommend this as an alternative to an eBook.
N.
H.
S.
stands for National Health Service for those reading outside of the UK.
The best way to rid anxiety permanently avoiding the hype is to understand these simple strategies; • The first step is to draw a line in the sand and have the real desire to stop any anxiety symptoms in their tracks before they escalate.
• The next step is to get help.
A fresh perspective diagnostician to analyse impartially.
To permanently get rid of anxiety, adding hype and failed coping strategies is the worst thing to do.
It will undoubtedly worsen the condition.
There are many organisations, therapists, online consultants and licenced practitioners who will be able to help.
I have found over the years the best way to permanently address anxiety is by way of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which challenges the perception and within a very short space of time completely refutes any distorted assumption that has led to the anxiety in the first place.
Changing the way you think changes the way you feel about things.
This is what Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, (or C.
B.
T.
) does really well.
Some other talking therapies can be very time consuming, expensive and can be focused on finding the origin or catalyst that formed the anxiety in the first place.
This approach assumes when you understand the catalyst then you understand the current way of thinking is flawed.
C.
B.
T.
deals with "now" and clients have been transformed in day and weeks rather than months and years.
C.
B.
T.
does not have to be expensive.
True, the hourly rate for a licenced professional C.
B.
T.
therapist can be unaffordable.
However, most Doctors today understand the transformational advantages of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and will refer rather than prescribe medication.
On a final note, there are online therapists many of whom are Licenced Mental Health Professionals who understand the difficulties some people experience seeking therapeutic intervention and offer bona fide and effective alternatives to one to one therapy.
There are some products available today which do the same as they are created by professionals.
There are many that are not so please be careful and I hope you consider what I have said in this article and at least speak to a Doctor before buying an eBook.
Remember, locked in a state of anxiety, people's lives can be seriously affected and left unaddressed these states can escalate into serious, and in the extreme, "life-threatening" conditions.
For example mild separation anxiety could lead to depression, self-harm or suicide.