http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/reasons-of-panic.html http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/reasons-of-panic.html#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:46:36 +0000 admin http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/?p=5 Look in the entertainment section of your local newspaper. Is there a scary movie playing at a theater near you? Not necessarily one of those slasher flicks full of blood, gore, and screaming teenage girls, but maybe a Stephen King-type horror show, a Hitchcock-style thriller, or something with regenerated dinosaurs and lost children; you’re sure to find at least one film that’s carefully calculated to scare the living daylights out of audiences.
You’ve read the ads and the reviews. You’ve talked to friends. You know the movie is supposed to be really scary, so you stand in line to buy tickets, hoping to get your money’s worth. Maybe you buy some popcorn or nachos. Then you go inside and find good seats, with nobody blocking your view. The lights go down and commercials and previews start to run.
Then the scary movie begins. You tune out the red exit lights, the smell of popcorn, and the sound of somebody coughing two rows back. You watch the movie.
And you get scared. If the movie’s as good as they say, you may get very scared-even though you know “it’s only a movie.” You hold your breath. You perch on the edge of your seat. Your body tenses up, you feel warm, your heart rate goes up. You may grip the arm of your seat (or your date) until your knuckles turn white, cover your eyes during the awful parts, or even find it necessary to leave. In short, your body responds as if the story were real, happening at that moment.
Of course, you’re not really in any danger. Furthermore, you know you’re not-but that doesn’t matter. You experience a certain kind of physical discomfort in response to the film, and you react as if it were danger-a classic instance of the proverbial “fear of fear.”
This is the artistry, the magic, of the scary movie. The film industry has people who are experts at getting you scared. They design sounds, images, plots, and characters to trick you into feeling fear, even though you’re just sitting there eating your popcorn and feeling your shoes stick to the chewing gum on the floor. And strange as it may seem, millions of people pay cash to get scared witless. Others wait and rent the DVD, watch it in the comfort and convenience of their own homes-and still get scared. To stop your fear, buy paxil.

]]> http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/reasons-of-panic.html/feed http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/why-people-develop-panic-attacks-and-phobias.html http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/why-people-develop-panic-attacks-and-phobias.html#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:43:26 +0000 admin http://www.oldtown-mandolins.com/?p=4 People with panic and phobias usually want very much to know “why” they have panic attacks, and frequently ask themselves that question. “Why me?” they’ll ask themselves, again and again. “Why here? Why now?” It’s perfectly natural to want to know why you have panic. But first I want to tell you that the “why” questions won’t be all that useful to you. In fact, focusing on the “why” questions is much more likely to get you stuck than it is to help you recover.
When people ask themselves the “why” question, they’re not really looking for information. They’re usually getting mad at themselves. That anger isn’t going to be part of the solution.
I see two general patterns in the history of people who come to me for help with fears and phobias.
The first type is people who can trace their phobias directly back to childhood, without interruption. Whatever they fear, be it public speaking, flying, an insect or other animal, or whatever, their history shows that they have always been afraid of it. These are childhood phobias that were never outgrown. They are most likely to be specific phobias rather than phobias associated with panic disorder. Generally, people who have this kind of history with their fear are much less concerned with the “why” question. They tend to see it as a fear that’s always, or almost always, been with them, so they don’t see much mystery about it.
The second pattern is much more likely to be associated with panic disorder, and gives rise to much more preoccupation with the “why?” question. In this case, people can look back to a time in their life when they didn’t have the phobia they have now. In fact, they often can recall a time in their life when they thoroughly enjoyed the activity or situation they now fear, or when they felt “fearless” in general. To became Fearless, buy Abilify in our online store!

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