Continuing our series of personal testimonies, another variation on the theme is to focus on You Tube and document personal recoveries through brave women and men who come forward and reveal their heart. The internet is a powerful beast, social media and advances in sharing technologies have made our personal lives a lot more visible and naked to a much larger audience. That’s really powerful and important for helping information too, instead of sometimes needing to locate specialised groups, key personal information can be communicated peer-to-peer instantly. Ok, and now to the testimon

  Anxiety always came natural to me. In fact for many years I thought being anxious was normal, I didn’t necessarily label it anxious, I thought racing thoughts, shortness of breath, restless legs, shallow sleep, inability to focus and concentrate and social queasiness was just the norm. That was just how I was, what a relief to know it’s not and that was a way of life I fell into because of many years of not really knowing how to identify, tackle and lower anxiety. This is about How I Beat Anxiety. And believe me I’ve gone through shitloads of anxiety and come out the o

  Continuing this series on brave men who come forward and confess their vulnerability in front of the world via You Tube, I applaud there braveness and boldness. These stories do not detail at length how beat the anxiety but they do tell openly their experiences of panic attacks. It appears that for both of these men one of they key parts about getting better was learning about what they were going through. Don’t sit there and think that you are dying. Don’t sit there and think that you are alone. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqflIsXgnmk] Connect with Digital Soul: [capti

Ben, went through You Tube and was encouraged to hear people sharing about panic attacks. Admitting that you have panic attacks is a scary thing, especially sharing them as a man because you fear exposing your weakness and vulnerability. 3 1/2 years ago he had his first panic attack in London when attending a pub where his now ex-girlfriend was performing a show. Suddenly a wave of tightness came over his chest and throat, he didn’t know how to handle it and retreated to the toilet, inside the toilet he was trying to calm himself down and console himself. He became freaked out about the

FROM CELEBRITIES WITH DISEASES: Jemma Kidd.  Successful career woman, mother of twins and blessed with ravishing looks. Rewind back to her 20s and her life was far from as peachy as it may have appeared to the outside world: Jemma was hiding the fact that she was suffering from an overwhelming anxiety disorder that was affecting every sphere of her life. READ MORE: Jemma Kidd speaks out about how she overcame her anxiety disorder – Celebrities – Celebrities with diseases.

FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Some years ago I was abseiling down a cliff when the rock my feet were planted on took a sharp curve inwar [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] ds leaving me hanging in mid air with around 400 metres between me and the ground. There was a watery bowelled, panicky moment when I wondered what possessed me to do this. Yet when my feet touched flat earth again, I knew exactly why – because getting out of your comfort zone can do so much to tame anxiety and boost confidence. READ MORE : Adventure sports &

FROM MSNBC A new study in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism highlights the complex relationship between mental health and substance use. Although it was known that anxious teens often self-medicate with alcohol, a group of Finnish researchers, led by Sari Fröjd at the University of Tampere, showed those teens are also more likely to continue using alcohol two years later. Fröjd found that 65 percent of teens with anxiety who reported drinking weekly at the study’s start continued to drink weekly two years later, whereas 55 percent of those without general anxiety disorder conti