An Anti-Anxiety Agent in Tea?

I like how he says for dealing with anxiety “I recommend breathing exercises. They’re the fastest and most effective way to relieve anxiety symptoms”– I’ve found that to be true in my own experience!!

And people often just don’t know they may have to PRACTICE how to breathe correctly. That its not something you just DO. Not when you’re anxious!

Anyway, thanks for the articles - good stuff!

You need to be conscious of your breath as you go though the day if you want to overcome anxiety, not just when you sit down to do breathing exercise. I love Dr. Weil’s methods for physical problems but he is not an expert in emotional health or mental health.

His anxiety answer doesn’t get to the cause of what makes you anxious in the first place. He is still treating the symptons. The only way to really be relaxed and feel good is to reduce anxiety at the source. Check out my holistic psychology anxiety answer at http://www.drjeanette.com/anxiety.html where I explain how to stop an anxiety attack and how to get to the root problem. I also have a radio show on Overcoming Anxiety Naturally with an Anxiety Tip Sheet at http://www.moosemeals.com/edge.htm

Josh,

Interesting. I switched from coffee to green tea during the weekdays late last year. Now I’m wondering if this has played a part in my being less anxious this year. I’ve also been working out regularly, which has definitely helped. I hadn’t really considered the green tea as a benefit, though.

Thanks for the article.

Dave

P.S. Watch out for “Heart_Man”. He’s not here to help or share experiences. He’s a spammer trying to attract people to his blog and ultimately his web site where he sells crap. He posted that same comment on my blog on an entirely unrelated matter. Then again a week later. Then again and again. I contacted him and asked him to stop posting to my blog, only to have him post that same comment on dozens of past posts spanning a myriad of topics. I had to delete them and activate the moderate comment feature on my blog.
Watch out for him, everyone; he’ll no doubt be mining this blog and posting on your blog soon, with the exact same comment.

Thanks for the insight, Josh.

By the way, I didn’t notice before, but I see Doris Jeanette (drjeanette) also posted a comment here. She is no different than “Heart_Man”. She is in the business of selling questionable information. In fact, she might be worse.

When I wrote a post about ‘blog comment etiquette’ on my blog, here’s the reply I received from her, believe it or not (see below).

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Doris Jeanette’s nasty comment posted to my blog:
“I have noticed that a few of the people who have social anxiety blogs talk about cooking, food and they are not interested in helping people with social anxiety.

They have an agenda that seems to be talking about everything under the sun but not doing anything to help themselves with anxiety. And they get upset if you offer them anxiety natural treatment tips for free so the people who need them can get them.

Specifically, they want to use anxiety to get you to their blog. You can tell because they do not help themselves or help people who have social anxiety. They use the internet to their own personal advantage.

Their blog arrives in my email box almost every day because they use the word anxiety. And they talk about life, entertaining people and cooking. Why don’t they change the name of their blog to fit what they talk about?

Why don’t they welcome someone who invites them to visit their blog where they offer free information and tips on anxiety and “sell” cheap social anxiety help that empowers people?

It’s a simple marketing scheme to use the internet and keywords like social anxiety in order to attract visitors to their own blog.

For me, and this is only my personal take on it, I feel like I’m being used.

Hope y’all understand where I’m coming from. The purpose of this blog is to help me work through my social anxiety and maybe helps others with their own issues.

Looks to me like you want to keep your anxiety and use others in the process. You are polluting my email box without being socially responsible.

I still do not see any e-mail for contact. I have found over the last 10 years that most people online in chat groups and yahoo groups who gather under the name of anxiety do not really want to get rid of their anxiety. It is their identify and they want to keep it. You seem to be attached to your anxiety as well.

If you ever want real answers to real anxiety problems, I have them.”
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Pretty scary considering she claims to be a psychologist. Imagine if she’d left a comment like that on the blog of someone with SA who was unstable and suffered from extreme low self-esteem!? Her comment could have been very damaging. I consider this reckless bevahiour somewhat shocking coming from a professional psychologist. If anyone should know better, you’d think it would be her. What’s really interesting is that when I first made a post about a dinner I had with friends, she originally replied with a very nice comment about loving food (she also included links to her site so she could sell me stuff). Only after I made the post about blog comment etiquette did she become abusive and change her tune.
Bottom line, she’s not commenting to help you or me or anyone.

Dave

Thank you for the link. Reading it was very useful.

I must say that breathing exercises has helped me as well. I will try out the rest.

Sham

Thank you Dave — That was my gut response to the post, but I don’t go around much on the internet so I didn’t know. And I certainly didn’t go to her website.

I’m not much for someone who claims to have all the answers for me or anyone else they’ve never met.

Just found your site - very nice job.

Breathing is key for controlling panic / anxiety attacks. Part of the fight & flight mechanism is triggered by an excess of CO2. This causes overbreathing (hyperventilaton).

Thanks -

Bill