There is such an simple solution to anxiety attacks. Most forms of anxiety have little to do with what you think. Your sick body makes you think in anxious ways because you are over-producing stress hormones - such as adrenaline and cortisol. This can cause you to think in a delusional way, believing that you can control your anxious thoughts with thoughts - an impossible task. These stress hormones helps your body to send glucose to your brain, whenever you brain is starved of energy. If you have hypoglycemia your brain will be starved of energy, because of unstable blood sugar levels. This will trigger the release of adrenaline. Adrenaline functions to convert sugar stores in your body, back into glucose so as to feed the brain again with energy.
Proof: use glycerine. It stops the anxiety attack. It by-passes glucose and enters glycolysis (glucose metabolic pathway) as Phosphoglyceraldehyde and is not recognized by the pancreas as sugar. Hence does not trigger excess insulin causing a hypoglycemic dip ---> anxiety reactions.
Solution: The Hypoglycemic Diet
It is as simple as that!
There is no way you can talk yourself out of "anxiety attacks" if hypoglycemia causes you to have anxiety attacks!!!!
Hi Motif,
You say you have had 'every possible" test, but I bet you did not have a four hour glucose tolerance test as described here.
If you are experiencing endogenous stress, over which you have no conscious control, it is most likely to be due to some inner biological imbalance. There are many other silent diseases that can cause mood disorders.
From a psychonutritional point of view we FIRST need to treat the biological disorder that is responsible for "mental" symptoms, and then, there after, treat the psychological aspects (retraining the mind as it were). People who tend to have a "mentalistic" point of view of human behaviour, often tend to confuse symptoms for causes. Aberrations of the mind are then seen to be caused by the mind, instead of the body.
Breathing exercises, meditations, yoga are examples of Management Techniques, that may give temporary relief but do generally not "cure" the disease.
I agree with you to a point. However, when individuals undergo severe emotional trauma, this can also be responsible for the overwhelming surges in adrenaline and cortisol. It can also serve to zap important nutrients out of the body. Prolonged unresolved trauma can affect the chemicals in the brain and cause that chemical imbalance that the medical profession uses as an excuse to prescribe antidepressants. Diet plays an important part and a poor diet can make the symptoms of panic and anxiety much worse. Unresolved issues are also the cause of deep seated depression. Life's circumstances are complicated and anxiety and panic result when you are caught between a "rock and a hard spot." In some cases, yes, it is purely physical.
That is why when dealing with anxiety and panic it is imperative to address both the physical and emotional causes. It's all about Body, Mind, and Spirit.
My Best,
Luella
I fully agree with you, LuellaMay, but it is important to deal with the biological abnormality FIRST before dealing with the "psychological". In psychonutritional therapy we have a motto that says: BIOCHEMISTRY BEFORE PSYCHOLOGY. (Hardware before software) as it were.