What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is considered by most medical specialists to be a mental illness - it is not.

Anxiety disorder is a behavioural condition, fuelled by the anxious thoughts which it causes.

The anxiety cycle creates anxiety symptoms, these cause anxious thoughts, which causes elevated anxiety, which causes anxiety symptoms and so on - in a subconscious, self-perpetuating anxiety cycle.

The subconscious mind which controls the anxiety reaction has learned to behave at a new, higher anxiety level and it is this which, once adjusted to this new higher level, produces the symptoms, thoughts, sensations and obsessions which plague anxiety sufferers every day.

In the subconscious mind there lies an organ called the Amygdala. This organ is responsible for regulating the anxiety response. It is this organ which becomes 're-set' at a new, higher, resting level of anxiety during anxiety disorders.

In order to permanently eliminate inappropriate anxiety, it is vital that the treatment you receive focuses on the Amygdala's inappropriate anxiety response and not the 'catalyst' for the anxiety (the life circumstance which caused the initial surge of anxiety.)

Most modern treatment options focus on drug therapy or psychotherapy, these have their place in many disorders, but their usefulness in anxiety disorders is limited to say the very least.

'Talking' anxiety therapies are designed to teach you how to think more appropriately in order to remove the anxiety. The problem with this is that in order to successfully undermine and remove an anxiety disorder, it is vital that the anxiety sufferer receives a balanced, targeted and supportive program of recovery, otherwise success is very limited indeed.

It therefore stands to reason that if anxiety is caused by a faulty 'thermostat' and that the inappropriate anxiety levels, anxiety symptoms and anxious thoughts that you experience are simply a result of that. By repairing the fault, you will be able to 'normalize' your anxiety. Not only can you do that, but you will do it and the results will be permanent.