Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms and Treatment

Symptoms of anxiety attacks

- Chest tightness
- Costal or chest breathing
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling of lack of air
- Panic, phobia and anxiety

Early sings and symptoms of anxiety disorders

- Dry mouth in the morning
- Sleeping on one's back
- Agitated sleep or nocturnal sleep problems
- Sighing or sniffing air
- Mouth breathing during exercise/walking

Healthy lifestyle factors

- Effects of exercise depend on presence of nasal breathing (in and out) and changes in blood gases and nitric oxide blood concentrations
- Relaxation, meditation exercises
- Diaphragmatic breathing 24/7
- Straight spine or correct posture 24/7
- Forgiveness, silent prayer, acceptance, peace-making, calmness, good will, cooperation, composure, perseverance, self-discipline, commitment, and responsibility
- More time spent outdoors (especially for the elderly)
- Eating, only when a person is hungry (and stopping in time)
- Going to bed for sleep, only if one is really sleepy, and getting out of bed in the morning after waking up; sleeping on solid beds
- Raw vegetarian diet (provided that it is very well chewed)
- Moderation in pleasures
- Taking cold shower (while following certain rules), massage, barefoot walking
- Some breathing techniques (the Buteyko method, Frolov respiration device, Strelnikova paradoxical breath gymnastic, correctly done hatha yoga Pranayama, etc.)

Lifestyle risk factors

- Lack or insufficient physical exercise
- Oral breathing (during sleep and physical exercise too, unless you are superfit)
- Sleeping at night on one’s back
- Psychological stress, revenge, anger, greed, jealousy, envy, laziness, and other strong emotions
- Eating too much (especially of animal proteins)
- Lack of important nutrients and junk foods
- Toxins, poisons and pollution (in water, food and air, due to radiation, infections, and medical drugs); allergic triggers; dusty environment
- Pathological gut flora (manifested in the “self-soiling” effect and a need to use toilet paper)
- Focal infections (dead tonsils, cavities in teeth, athletes’ feet, root canals or dead teeth, and intestinal parasites, flukes, or worms) and silver mercury amalgams
- Talkativeness and deep breathing exercises (except slow ones, e.g., with 1-2 breaths per min so that to increase body CO2 content)
- Sighing, sneezing, coughing, and yawning with large movements of air or open mouth
- Addictions and excesses (caffeine, smoking, gambling, street drugs, too much alcohol, sex, etc.)

Treatment of anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorders, are not possible in people with normal breathing parameters. All anxiety disorders are caused by ineffective breathing patterns. Overbreathing or chronic hyperventilation is manifested in low body oxygenation (less than 20 seconds for the body oxygen test) and hypocapnia that causes overexcited states of nerve cells. The main impact of healthy lifestyle factors on anxiety disorders is lighter and easier breathing manifested in increased cell oxygenation. Vice versa, lifestyle risk factors intensify breathing (make it faster and deeper) causing hypocapnia (carbon dioxide deficiency) and all negative effects related to low CO2 levels in the blood and other cells.

In order to eliminate symptoms of anxiety disorders and get rid of anxiety attacks, one need to achieve more than 30 s for the body oxygen test. There are various breathing techniques that lead to increased oxygen content in brain cells.

Solutions to breathing problems

There are many breathing techniques and methods in order to normalize breathing and increase body oxygen levels. The Buteyko breathing technique has the most powerful arsenal of lifestyle changing tools which are described in detail in Section Learning. The same Section also describes the Buteyko breathing exercises, which are difficult to learn. Furthermore, there are breathing exercises that are more powerful (in comparison with the Buteyko breathing exercises) for body oxygen increase.

Oxygen remedy is such a program that is based on using Buteyko lifestyle program and application of breathing devices (the Amazing DIY breathing device, Frolov device and some others) that trap exhaled air with high CO2 levels for inhalations to boost body oxygen content. More info about these alternative respiratory techniques can be found here:
* Amazing DIY breathing device
* Frolov breathing device.

Related web page: CO2 - Body-made sedative and tranquilizer

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