Panic & Anxiety Blog

By Karl Perera I’ve written a lot about overcoming depression over the years but of all the things you can do to help make yourself stronger as you battle with your negative feelings there is one anti-depression technique that stands out. I call it the best medicine you can have because it is quick and [...] Read more

It isn’t uncommon for people suffering from anxiety to suffer from depression as well. In a very real sense, anxiety and depression are two sides of the same coin. Although clinical textbooks list depression and anxiety to be completely distinct disorders, they maintain characteristics that are similar or related to each other. A majority of Read more

Social media has allowed us to stay connected with more people than ever before. Old high school friends can now stay in touch as often as they had in class, and family reunions need not be limited to the holidays. Even relative strangers can acquaint themselves simply with a click of button and a few [...] Read more

Having a healthy mind is just as important as having a healthy body. And while our doctors continue to tell us to avoid unhealthy foods and lifestyles, we should also take care to avoid plaguing our mind with unhealthy thoughts and feelings. A mind full of unhealthy and negative thoughts is the root of many [...] Read more

For sufferers of panic and anxiety disorders, the word “therapy” can easily sound like a sort of empty promise. Thousands of people with various anxiety conditions have found themselves disheartened after countless treatments (be it natural, medical, psychological and even physical) have failed to accomplish what they had set out to achieve: Read more

Millions of people every day meditate.  Some of those may be Buddhist monks sitting cross legged in a monastery in India, while others may be sitting on a straight backed chair in their one bedroom apartment in New York. Why do they do it? Well, invariably they would say that they get something out of [...] Read more

People are often afraid of losing control and going mad during a panic attack. It is very common for patients and victims to feel like they are going crazy or, in some cases, going clinically mad. For a lot of victims, every new attack feels like its going to be the worst one they’ve ever [...] Read more

Hypnotherapists are known to be able to hypnotize people into a trance. However, what people don’t necessarily know is that there are people willing to pay for exactly that. Hypnotherapists have their own set of clients that avail of their powerful skills to help get them into a state that allows them to free their [...] Read more

  At its heart, anxiety and depression is based on the belief that the victim is helpless; and that the circumstances affecting his or her life are beyond their control. One person may feel anxious that a heart attack might strike him at any moment; while another might feel like his career is at a [...] Read more