Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, for people who are going through nicotine withdrawal, Asian ginseng might be a good choice (see post-traumatic stress disorder for more information on Asian ginseng, p. 875). For others, a slightly more calming tonic such as American ginseng or rhodolia might be more suitable. As mentioned above, check with a medical herbalist to determine which herbs will be most useful for your specific condition.
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PANIC ATTACKS
DIAGNOSIS
Panic attacks are feelings of intense fear and anxiety that come on without any warning, and often have no apparent trigger. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Almost one in every three people will suffer from at least one serious bout of anxiety, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. One in four people will have some sort of impulsive-control problem, such as explosive outbursts and defiant behavior. One in five people will suffer from serious depression or bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. One in every eight people will abuse alcohol or drugs. | | Physicians with the Veterans Administration diagnosed Bill as having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—he had been in combat, had been shot at, and had seen some of his army buddies wounded or killed. The doctors prescribed drugs, such as Prozac, and recommended psychological counseling. Although Bill's symptoms lessened, they did not go away. His moods and lack of interest in sex were hurting his marriage. At work, customers sensed that something was not right.
A friend suggested that Bill visit a nutritionally oriented naturopathic physician. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  In the early 1980s, the American Psychiatric Association responded to intense lobbying by Vietnam veterans by recognizing a new diagnostic category: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This diagnosis replaced the diagnostic category "war neurosis," which during World War II had in its own right replaced the World War I concept of shell shock. | | The idea of post-traumatic stress disorder was closer to the old idea of shell shock: war itself is a trauma, its advocates insisted, that results in breakdown and dysfunction.
That was not the end of the matter, however. The 1980s saw an astonishingly rapid expansion of the PTSD diagnostic category, much of it driven now by a new wave of feminist activism. In these years, the spotlight was put on the widespread realities of domestic violence, rape, and (perhaps most radically) the rediscovery of the existence of sexual abuse of young children. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Or the phenomenally effective EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) technique for post-traumatic stress disorder. And some cures (like the Health Recovery Center program for alcoholism) combine an array of supplements with spiritual and psychological techniques. Though there are a dozen or so listings of single supplements or herbs under the chapter heading "pure cures," truth be told those "pure" cures are even more effective when combined with lifestyle interventions. | | I don't know whether those neurochemicals can heal every disease on earth—or even all the
More than ten years later, EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a highly regarded, well-researched form of therapy for trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder that has gained the respect of the American conditions that EFT proponents claim to be able to improve. What I do know is that it has dramatic results for many people. |
Gregg Braden
See book keywords and concepts |  Studies in 2002 indicated that as many as 35 percent of the individuals exposed to the trauma of 9/11 could be at risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder.10 Five years later, that possibility became a reality when the high-school-aged children who initially experienced America's worst terrorist attack began showing an increased demand for anxiety-related treatment.
In March 2007, the Yale Medical Group reported on a study conducted by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | DIAGNOSIS
The term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is used to describe a range of psychological symptoms that may result from experiencing or witnessing a traumatic or life-threatening event, such as a natural disaster or military combat. Other incidents that can trigger this disorder include road accidents, muggings, and sexual or physical assaults. It can also occasionally follow a particularly difficult childbirth. Most survivors of trauma will go on to live normal lives once time has passed, but for others, just hearing news of shattering events can have a lasting impact. | | Common tonics are Asian or Korean ginseng, American ginseng, eleuthero, and ashwaganda. See post-traumatic stress disorder for information on their use (p. 875).
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DIAGNOSIS
A tic is a rapid and repeated contraction of a group of muscles, which results in movement (a motor tic) or the production of a sound (a vocal tic). Motor tics usually involve the muscles of the face (especially around the eye), head, and neck, producing movements such as blinking, facial twitching, and shrugging of the shoulders. They can, however, affect other parts of the body. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  They are sometimes prescribed off-label—without FDA approval—for anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and for Tourette's syndrome (where the person has "tics," involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocal sounds). These drugs are sometimes referred to as neuroleptics, a term that means "to take hold of one's nerves."
Typical antipsychotics are a class of older drugs that includes chlor-promazine (Ormazine, Thorazine), fluphenazine (Permitil, Prolixin), haloperidol (Haldol), and thioridazine (Mellaril). |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  Different types of anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and general anxiety disorder. In this last condition, symptoms include constant worrisome thoughts and tensions about everyday life events and activities lasting at least six months. Some of the many physical symptoms of anxiety disorders can include depression, nervousness, fatigue, muscle tension, headaches, difficulty concentrating, insomnia, nightmares, and sweating. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  First, the company tried encouraging doctors to prescribe the drug off label for post-traumatic stress disorder by funding and publishing several clinical trials testing Paxil on people suffering from the condition. Unfortunately for SmithKline, however, the results of the trials failed to show the drug was effective, and the FDA refused to approve it for posttraumatic stress disorder. The company then turned to another condition, called social anxiety disorder, an extreme form of shyness that causes intense feelings of distress in social situations. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  PTSD Study
Soul Medicine Institute has funded a proposed study of civilian contractors recently returned from Iraq, to determine the effects of Energy Psychology on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Phobia Study
Soul Medicine Institute is working with other groups to initiate a study at Kaiser Permanente to determine the effects of Energy Psychology on phobias. This is an extension and replication of the two phobia studies described in Chapter 11, with potential for triggering a larger-scale study in the Kaiser system. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts | | They are sometimes prescribed off-label—without FDA approval—for anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and for Tourette's syndrome (where the person has "tics," involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocal sounds). These drugs are sometimes referred to as neuroleptics, a term that means "to take hold of one's nerves."
Typical antipsychotics are a class of older drugs that includes chlor-promazine (Ormazine, Thorazine), fluphenazine (Permitil, Prolixin), haloperidol (Haldol), and thioridazine (Mellaril). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | This is pretty much a definition of what happens in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
How EMDR Therapy Helps
So what happens in therapy? At the heart of EMDR is what's called dual attention stimulus. Most commonly, the therapist will ask you to mentally focus on the distressing (or desired) experience while at the same time directing your attention to an external stimulus (most commonly eye movements, though auditory tones or even tapping can be used as well). |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  A repeated lack of love experienced early in life can produce the illness known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A key effect of PTSD is the damage that is done to the corpus callosum, which reduces a person's ability to connect to her feelings; or, literally, for the left brain to connect to the right. In an article in Scientific American, Martin Teicher of the Harvard Medical School describes his finding that young boys who had been abused or rejected had significantly smaller corpus callosums than normal children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Lo and behold, it was PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. I grant you, there are a lot of troubling visions and experiences that all men in a war are exposed to, and these cause troubling flashbacks and troubled sleep. But it's not an organic disease of the brain as psychiatry would have us believe, nor are these symptoms inevitable. They would have all the soldiers over there believe that PTSD is a disease with a grave prognosis. |
Jacky Law
See book keywords and concepts |  Not only are people with eating, sexual, and anxiety disorders, depres-sives, schizophrenics, and post-traumatic stress disorder patients candidates for Prozac ... [wrote psychiatrist Dr William S. Appleton in his guide to the new antidepressants back in 1997]. But also those who are subsyndromal: the timid, those with low energy and low self-esteem; those who are irritable, perfectionist, inflexible, or suffering from a general malaise or unhappiness; and those who are too aggressive or abusive. In short, anyone - sick or not - may benefit from the civilizing effects of Prozac ... |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  They focus on survivors who are suffering, with little recognition of the many who have survived without overt psychological consequences such as depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, drug abuse, or other problems. These successful survivors have no need to see a psychologist, which is why psychologists rarely write about them. When such an individual sees a physician for uncontrollable or severe hypertension, the physician will not suspect a mindbody link in the absence of overt emotional pain or psychopathology. |
Ray Dodd
See book keywords and concepts |  An example: Soldiers returning from war sometimes suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Faced with the horrors of war, they ignore the fear they experience because of the agreements of duty. Soldiers are forced to endure the situation they are in regardless of the intense emotional messages they get. They stuff their feelings and just keep going. Once they are back in normal circumstances, soldiers suffering from PTSD exhibit symptoms such as sleeplessness, frequent agitation, shallow breathing, constipation, and an accelerated heart rate. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dissociative disorders, and phobic disorders are among the more serious emotional manifestations of stress. They are often a result of an event that the individual was unable to deal with at the time. Posttraumatic stress disorder in particular seems to be becoming increasingly common in our stress-filled world. The key sign of PTSD involves mentally reliving past traumatic events in a manner and to an extent that this interferes with normal life. (See Is It Stress or Is It PTSD? on page 721. |
Eric R. Braverman
See book keywords and concepts |  SPEED (MILLISECONDS)
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Speeds this high typically indicate overstimulation due to cocaine or amphetamines
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Panic disorder, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, anxiety
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330 hyperthyroidism, post-traumatic stress disorder, mild hypertension, learning difficulties
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Fatigue, hyperlipidemia, mild anemia. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Healing foods for Angina, Chest Pain and Heart Pain
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Healing herbs for Angina
***** motherwort ***** hawthorn berry ***** bbelia ***** garlic
Anxiety / Nervousness
Anxiety takes many forms, including eating disorders, social phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder or sometimes just excessive worrying. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  A depletion of these amino acids can contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder.
VITAMIN C
A high dietary intake of Vitamin C may help reduce the effects of chronic stress by inhibiting the release of stress hormones, thus preventing these hormones from dampening the immune response.
FOODS TO AVOID
There are also certain foods you should try to avoid, as they exacerbate stress symptoms. Try to wean yourself off of coffee, non-herbal
Warning: Do not self-prescribe supplements if you are taking prescription drugs. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
See book keywords and concepts |  Anxiety disorders are classified into various categories, such as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder (PD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and social phobia/social anxiety disorder (SAD). The conventional approach to severe anxiety involves pharmacotherapy with benzodiazepines, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), or other medications, such as buspirone, imipramine, or trazodone.
Here, I report on four cases where the use of optimal doses of nicotinamide considerably improved the symptoms of anxiety. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For examples, studies of Vietnam War veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder indicate that these men have terrible difficulty in shutting off their biological response to stress. One study showed that they produced 40 percent less of the chemicals that automatically turn off the feedforward mechanism. In the vernacular, these former soldiers' "nerves are shot."
It's likely, I believe, that the feedforward mechanism is a primary culprit in the very existence of post-traumatic stress disorder. |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
See book keywords and concepts |  It gradually was sold as a remedy for various kinds of pain; hot flashes with menopause; restless leg syndrome; partial seizures in adults and children older than three; drug- and alcohol-withdrawal seizures; attention deficit disorder; migraines; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease); and assorted psychiatric conditions, including bipolar disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and social phobias. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | It's likely, I believe, that the feedforward mechanism is a primary culprit in the very existence of post-traumatic stress disorder. Obviously, persons with post-traumatic stress disorder have memories that haunt them—but the biological presence of the feedforward mechanism "locks in" those painful memories. Then the stress-producing memories perpetuate the feedforward mechanism. Thus another degenerative spiral is created.
My brain longevity programs can intervene in this spiral, by addressing not only the psychological elements of the spiral, but also the biological elements. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  The patients with phobias were also found to be more likely to have post-traumatic stress disorder which is marked by delayed response to a stressful or traumatic event (Goisman et al. 1998).
CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT
Allopathic medicine aims to relieve symptoms of anxiety disorders, including phobias, with drug therapy and to treat underlying disorders or conflicts with psychotherapy. |
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