Anxiety and those we love...

This article is aimed towards helping our loved ones cope with Anxiety Disorders.

Reaching out to a love one with anxiety can leave us exhausted. Moreover, we begin to feel desperate and hopeless in our day-to-day lives. In the end, we too start feeling anxious, as our relationships become dearly effected and dictated by Anxiety disorders.

As we know, anxiety is an illness which makes us feel uncomfortable in the world we once felt at home in. We illicit an emotional response of fear to much of anything we come in contact with.

Helping those we love can be a draining task. Being patient is extremely rewarding, your partner and self will reap the benefits of such a gratifying experience.

The first step to helping a loved one is learning about Anxiety disorder; there are many resources online providing you with informative content on symptoms, causes and how to effectively combat the illness.

People suffering with anxiety experience multiple physical symptoms. Generally speaking, we are unable to relax and most often suffer from insomnia. Examples of the various symptoms are as followed: fatigue, trembling, muscle tension, headaches, irritability, or hot flashes.

People with this disorder tend to expect the worst; they worry excessively about money, health, family, or work, even in situations where there is no signs of trouble or danger.

Once you recognize and comprehend the causes and symptoms of anxiety, it will be easier to understand from the sufferers perspective and adjust to your world more accordingly.

More specifically, a few useful tips in how to help a loved one can be as easy as giving praise when a task is accomplished.

It is important to change your expectations. Understand that things they have done in the past are different now. Anxiety controls our body and minds, so adapting to change is vital to the success of good help.

Make sure you measure the progress of your loved ones disorder subjectively. Be sure to base it on individual improvement, as there is no standard to follow. Being more flexible is critical to coping and enables both parties to maintain a more regular routine.

Having a loved one by our side can be the key to paving the road to recovery. It is not the cure but a gift knowing we are not alone in this that matters most.

Newest online Anxiety group - Check it out

Hey everyone,
I wanted to take a short moment and tell you about my newest project.

'All about Anxiety' is the newest place online, offering yet another opportunity for those suffering from all types of anxiety illnesses to connect, gather information and just meet similar people.

Over the coming days and weeks, useful content and info will be added regularly. The group will also feature many confirmed things i can't talk about yet (hush hush) so check it out and join.

You'll need to open an account at Mychillpill in order to join, but that will take 2 minutes of your time max. See you over there!

Anxiety, Depression Blogs and Social Networks...

I haven't posted for a few days, i took it easy like i said i would. I watched an amazing film, apparently I'm one of the last people to see it - Requiem for a dream, excellent film!

I had a very low key weekend, i braved the supermarket and this resulted in me having a fridge full of fruit and vegetables, which meant a nice healthy weekend.

I want to spend some time talking to you about two things today, first a good friend of mine who also dabbles in blogs on-line has created a very informative blog on depression, Down with Depression. I'd like all of us to spend some time reading it, as anxiety sufferers, most of us at some point have probably suffered or are suffering from depression. The blog is detailed, interesting and everyone will learn something new from it, I'm sure.

Secondly, I want to spend some more time talking about something new and beneficiary to many of us. Mychillpill.

This new social network is unique in that it is aimed at those of us with social disabilities and mental health needs. Be it claustrophobia or anxiety, you're welcome and encouraged there to meet people similar to yourself.

Mychillpill has all the usual things any social network will have, blogs, groups, profile and chats as well as additional tools aimed at assisting those looking for info and ways to meet people suffering from similar illnesses.

I'd like your feedback on both things i've past on to you today, i hope we can all use these as two more useful tools and platforms in which to connect to people similar to ourselves.

Anxiety Today reaches 500 members!

Hi everyone,
For those of you that don't know, I also work very hard on a group i created in Facebook called Anxiety Today, i started the group a month ago with the aim of helping anxiety sufferers come together on Facebook without being spammed or drowning in a group of thousands of people.

The group has done amazingly well in such a short period of time, people are turning to it for advice and to offer support, it is quickly becoming the most popular place on facebook for Anxiety Sufferers to meet others.

Today we stand at 500 people, i hope it will continue to grow in the tasteful way it has so far.

I'd like to add a big thank you to everyone who has contributed, to everyone who has invested time in making it an appealing place and to all the sufferers who shared their personal experiences with the public. Thank you.

Buying my meds in times of need

As any reader of my blog will know, i take Xanax. I haven't delved too much into my level of medication, but for some reason i now feel able to, maybe because of the level of comfort i now feel when i write on the blog, and also from the support i receive in way of your kind comments and messages.

My Xanax is also accompanied by Prozac and i take herbal sleeping tablets from time to time. My depression has often been crippling, the good times have seen me lower the dosage.

The recent death of someone very close to me has left me feeling empty and without much to give to the world. It feels right to raise the dosage for now, and as most medicated people will know this also means finding the extra anticipated funds to ensure you can stock up.

I'm fortunate enough that i can work from home, so i do have a minimal income, but minimal it is. I do get by, but not with much space to breathe.

I've taken liberty of my own posting about Licensed RX and have gone ahead and ordered my next batch of Xanax, this time I've also ordered my Prozac and sleeping tablets from them as it seems to make sense to put it all into one place, especially with the saving coupon and compared to the cost of getting it from my doctor.

I've decided that with the money I'll now be saving by ordering with Licensed RX, I'll eventually be able to take myself on holiday. Any suggestions?