Stop Anxiety and Panic Attacks

I am a psychologist specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. I would like to use driving games in the treatment of driving anxious patients. To do that well, I would like a game with free driving through different environments (city, highway, mountain, etc.), and ability to predetermine different conditions: lighting and weather conditions and traffic density. Do you know any game that might fulfill all or some of these requirements?

Most all of the games on the market today have something of these types of programming. (Sony, X-box, Nintendo, etc) The best thing for you to do is to go into a store that sells these different game systems and just look at the discriptions of the different games and select one that you think is appropriate. Your idea sounds great. I hope it works for your patients.

There really is no drug for Social Anxiety Disorder. Paxil is supposed to help, but it really does nothing for the main problem which is poor social skills. The best thing to do is desenitization, although I suppose if the anxiety is really bad xanax can help.

I am on my 3rd month and I feel like my anxiety is getting out of control. I have a history if panic disorder, and recently stopped taking anti-anxiety medication in early July. (Which I was only on for a year) My anxiety has never felt this bad. I usually can manage it with exercise, but nothing seems to be helping. Can bc do this? Can anyone recommend a bc that might make me feel better?

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I don’t know how, but I want to meet some lesbians who are my age in real life. This is very hard for me, because I have social anxiety disorder, which makes it hard for me to socialize with anyone. There aren’t any lesbigay youth groups in my city, and I’m currently home schooled… Any idea what I should do?

social anxiety disorder? SHY? Find a chat group and let yourself go and eventually you will hook up with some kids in your hood….relax and be yourself…they are nervous too.

just saw this….Try TransDyke, a Yahoo group. You must be 18 of course.

I think I have felt most my entire life. I have

A strong mercury, conjunct my ascendant that I guess might cause some anxiety.

And I have Saturn conjunct Pluto, Moon, and Sun which I have ready can suggest depression.

What else is there?

Aww your gonna make me cry again..

Saturn opposition moon
Moon opposition pluto
Moon square Saturn
Saturn square Sun
Mercury opposition Saturn
Saturn Square Mercury
Pluto opposition mercury
Pluto square sun

and it also depends where your moon is located

My life is being destroyed by social phobia I’m 18 and I have few friends and I’m even scared to go out and get a job because I’m scared to be intervied. What is the best medicine to fix this problem?

Positive attitude is the best meds, Seek professional help .

Therapists have their own methods…but probably in your first session your therapist will just sit there and let you begin talking…the point being to get you to think about the basic reason you are there. The theory with this type of treatment is to teach the "patient" to figure out what caused them to have the problem(s) they are encountering, and to try to lead them into discovering and acting on the things they (the "patient") needs to do to free themselves from their presenting problem(s). The therapists usually ask very few, but deep questions…that are key to you figuring out how to change the situation you are in. For instance, if you are depressed, at some point in your treatment your therapist might ask "What are you gaining by continuing being depressed?" While questions like this seem insulting, after asking how you would gain anything by being depressed (for which you will get no answer from your therapist) It leads you, to – after you leave the office – try to figure out why your therapist said that to you and why would anyone want to be depressed, and how dare they think you are "getting something" as a result of your depression. Very long answer….too long for writing here…."cognitive" means that you are taught – (nudged) into becoming aware of why you do things and/or how to deal with things in your life that are causing you pain.

The three I will speak on will be Social Anxiety disorder, Generalized anxiety disoder and Panic Disorder.

Social Anxiety / Just Pretend I’m Not Here.
Generalized Anxiety / Jumpy Jitters and Nervous Nellies.
Panic / I Gotta Get Outta Here…NOW!

I am supposed to be used to being apart from my boyfriend, since we have been in LDR for few years, but this time after I came back home from his place, i get anxiety attacks if he doesn’t contact me for some reason. And I cant deal with it. What should I do?

Find your happy place. OK, I know it sounds corny but its true. However, you do need to practice. It is not enough to just look for a happy place when you need it but practice it whenever you think about it.

Mine happens to be on a cruise.

For some people it might be a concert or a sporting event.

But again, you must think about what it is and practice going there.

I really do want a job becuase I am sick of my mom having to buy me things but I have really bad social anxiety. How did you overcome extreme shyness? I have been prescribed anti-depressents but they don’t work.

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