My Journey To Overcoming Anxiety Attacks

I remember when I was younger and I had no idea what anxiety even was. I heard the term, but definitely could not relate to it in my earlier years. Because of extremely unbalanced nerves being a new experience in my life, it took me awhile to realize my out of kilter mental and physical state could be attributed to overly sensitive nerves and how they can play out in various health symptoms and odd sensations in the body.

Please click here to learn of some very troublesome health symptoms and sensations (I personally experienced most of those) which can be caused from a nervous disorder.

I had my first anxiety attack and panic attack many years ago, at the beginning of my deterioration in health. I initially experienced about 4 panic attacks and luckily they then subsided. However, the severe anxiety continued.

After my first scary anxiety attack episode, I was rushed to the emergency room not knowing why my body felt like it was going internally haywire.

Tests were run at the hospital. All diagnostic tests were fine and I was told to follow up with my medical doctor. So, the next day, I went to my medical doctor. He thought I was just experiencing the results from stress, but I asked to please have a complete physical done to eliminate any other possible physical causes. (All test results came back fine.)

I have to admit I was kind of embarrassed having to divulge to my medical doctor that I was having these scary thoughts, feelings and strange symptoms. In fact, I do not believe I led on to how unnerving these feelings of dread and panic were that I was experiencing. I had a hard time finding the right vocabulary to describe just how I was feeling since this was such a new and perplexing experience for me.

I additionally did not want my medical doctor (that I hold in high regard) to perhaps think less of me - though I now know that concern was unfounded. Chalk that up to my ego I suppose. If I would have opened up more and shared more, perhaps my doctor would have told me I had experienced a strong anxiety attack.

[As a side note, many years later after I started figuring things out a bit better, I hesitantly told my medical doctor that I had experienced anxiety and a few panic attacks. On some level, because of my malfunctioning nerves, I felt like a "failure" and that I had let myself and others down. I guess I wanted to appear like I had everything together, like so many of us I believe. He said many people are also experiencing anxiety.]

I also did not properly communicate my concerns because I was just so bewildered and afraid as to what was happening to my body. I just felt real out of sorts. I certainly could not believe that all my exacerbating symptoms were from stress.

The natural health practitioner that I selected, stated maybe my mind was affecting my health. I did not completely understand what that meant nor what to then do about it to correct things.

I certainly had reduced my stresses and I had a great life. What could be wrong with my mind? It had always served me pretty well. I figured the natural health practitioner was wrong in her assumption.

Well, she was actually right. My stressed out mind and bodily tension had contributed to my many physical symptoms. In fact, this stress led to a more toxic colon and then to my nervous illness. Read some of the many distressing health symptoms that can be a result of an overly toxic colon.

After I experienced my first panic attacks, my caring mother purchased an expensive anti anxiety and panic program for me. I figured I would certainly be able to at least pick up some tidbits of good information from this mental health program. However, I did not truly believe overly sensitive nerves could cause the many debilitating symptoms that I was personally experiencing.

I read and applied the anti anxiety program and experienced no results. My many mental and physical symptoms were not relieved at all. Because of the dismal results of the anxiety relief program, I further surmised I did not then have anxiety issues. I then wrongly assumed my challenges were because of some physical issue not yet detected.

Besides I thought, if stress caused these problems, then surely de-stressing will reverse things. But de-stressing did not work. My body felt completely out of balance and could not seem to be able to reconfigure or break the vicious cycle I was trapped in. I remained so bewildered.

As I mentioned on My Story page, my nervousness symptoms dramatically decreased during and then after the Colonix colon cleanse. My happiness started returning and I definitely felt more joyful. I realized there is clearly a gut and brain connection and there is plenty of medical research to support that.

Perhaps learning about the history of enema usage as a natural healing remedy that lead to better health and increased well being, will help you further understand the benefits of cleansing your colon.

But still, I could tell my nerves were overly sensitive. My body, though much stronger from the Colonix intestinal cleanse, was still not totally balanced.

My body was frequently in a high alert state. My body seemed to be stuck in the fight or flight response. This response would wear me out physically and mentally. I could not seem to be able to stop that well worn pattern from happening now and then. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to these anxious occurrences.

Little things would set off these overly sensitive nerve reactions and I could feel the adrenalin coursing through my body. About the only television show that was non-adrenalin producing for me and that my body could handle was the Antiques Roadshow. What a calming and peaceful show!

Though my overall health had dramatically improved with the Colonix colon cleanse, and I felt like I was reclaiming my life again, I had to admit something was still not right. That was a remaining nervousness pattern that was pretty well established in my body and mind by now. I could not pull out of this deeply embedded pattern or body memory with my best efforts and intentions.

I was embarrassed when I would visit my medical doctor once more with my concerns over the bothersome symptoms, only to be told everything is fine and that stress can cause these symptoms.

I was disappointed that I had not figured this get well health puzzle out yet.

With all of these health building tools applied in my life, how could something still be amiss? How could so many other people be handling their daily responsibilities with such greater ease than me I wondered.

I was definitely celebrating from my huge improvements from my Colonix bowel cleanse, as written on my before and after personal health symptoms page. But why is this nervousness with its energy draining effects still holding on? Why does my body seem like it is stuck in high gear or "stress mode?"

Well, my last anxiety attack led to me acquiring further mental health knowledge. This long awaited knowledge made it clear that indeed my many scary symptoms and perplexing sensations were being caused from overly sensitive nerves and their several physical manifestations in the human body and mind.

Click here for page 3 on the simple anxiety recovery steps I took and also how I interestingly finally really got the fact that my fears and worrisome thoughts could contribute toward and worsen my overly fatigued nerve symptoms.

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