Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Panic Portal - Does It Live Up To Its Bold Claims?
The first thing you see at the Panic Portal website, is this:
"What's Holding Your Recovery From Anxiety Back?"
"Countless People Have Transformed Their Anxiety And Panic Attacks Using My Simple Course That Makes Complicated Psychology Easy For Everyone To Understand"
What I feel is my duty here today, is to tell you what I really think about the Panic Portal and Panic Away. You've probably heard of Joe Barry and his Panic Away program. If not, have you heard of his Panic Portal website?
Well, they're all the same... panicportal.com, panicaway.com... the same thing. Let me hold you back for a second though before you head over there.
Why?
Well, I just wanted to tell you a bit about them first.
Joe Barry, the author of Panic Away, or Panic Portal, or whatever used to suffer deeply from both anxiety and panic attacks.
In the book on page 25 starts a new chapter entitled "The One Move Technique".
This technique is the technique that will allow anyone with panic attacks to almost instantly banish the panic from their system, just by using this technique... pretty cool isn't it? I would say.
I bought the Panic Away book a while back, mostly out of sheer desperation. Though I did receive a few pushes from friends who had tried the system in the past.
That's what I am today. I am a friend, and I'm here to aid you in your journey and help you in your decision making.
Panic Away sure transformed my life, and if you're suffering from panic attacks or anxiety yourself, I'm a 100% certain that it'll change your life as well. Plus, it won't cost you an arm and a leg either. Actually, if you don't like it (you will though, I'm sure) you're entitled to a refund within 8 weeks, no questions asked.
How does that sound for a Panic Portal?
Read my complete review of Panic Portal and Panic Away, where I'll tell you all about Panic Away, the One Move Technique and Joe Barry himself. I'll also tell you my story of how I got to where I am today, and exactly how Panic Away transformed my life.
Don't panic! Another thing I'll tell you is how Panic Away compares to a lot of the other panic products on the market right now.
Just click here to get started --> Panic Away Review
The Connection Between Panic and Anxiety and "Self Medicating"
A lot of people suffering from panic and anxiety disorders tend to "self-medicate". That is, they tend to use alcohol or drugs, both over the counter and illegal, to dull the symptoms of their anxiety. According to the Science Direct web site, a study found that as many as 10-40 percent of alcoholics have panic attacks and/or anxiety, and 10-20 percent of people with panic and anxiety abuse drugs or alcohol. The majority of people asked believed that that their self medication worked, even though the researchers found that these people often had more serious situations, including depression.
The study also found that a majority of people reported having anxiety before alcohol or substance abuse.
The relationship between panic and anxiety disorders and alcohol and drugs seems to be a vicious one; people with anxiety and panic use alcohol to self medicate sometimes leading to alcohol and substance abuse, while on the other hand, alcohol and drug use can lead to panic and anxiety disorders.
For years it marijuana was commonly considered not to have any negative long term effects on users, but this has changed. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, not only can you experience anxiety and panic attacks immediately after using cannabis; one of the most common long term side effects of smoking marijuana is panic and anxiety.
Other drugs that can cause anxiety are stimulants such as amphetamines, cocaine or crack. Hallucinogens such as LSD, PCP and ecstasy.
In addition to these illegal substances, as previously mentioned, legal substances such as nicotine, alcohol and caffeine can cause panic and anxiety reactions, especially in high doses.
Even prescription and over the counter medication can cause both immediate anxiety reactions and long term anxiety disorders.
Most diet pills contains some sort of stimulant, ranging from caffeine and guarana to ephedrine (also sometimes called ephedra) and other stimulants closely related to amphetamine. Some of these stimulants are considered harmless in small doses, but are usually found in relatively high doses in diet pills. According to The National Institutes of Health, studies in animals show that the use of diet pills containing fenfluramine, can cause not only panic and anxiety, but also long term brain damage.
If you experience panic and anxiety, it is important to be very aware of what you put in your body. It may be easy to think that a little caffeine or alcohol is normal and maybe even good for you, but if you have anxiety problems, you should probably cut down on the use of these substances or cut them out all together. If you experience negative feeling or anxiety thinking about giving up on these substances, it is quite possible that you are addicted to them, something that makes it even more important for you to give it up.
It might be difficult for you to change some of the habits that are causing your anxiety, and in some cases it may temporarily cause more anxiety to give something up, but if you are suffering from panic and anxiety, you can greatly improve the quality of your life if you limit the amounts of anxiety causing substances you have in your system.
Jon Mercer is an expert author and educator.
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