Face Your Fears Week – 25th Sep – 1st October 2011
July 21st, 2011 | 
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Why face your fears?
Anxiety UK wanted a fun and exciting way to raise both awareness and much needed funds to continue to support those for whom facing their fears is a daily experience.
All funds raised will go towards funding their essential helpline, website and therapy services that are available to people across the UK. The day of your challenge you will be feeling a little scared, but imagine having that feeling everyday, when you have to answer a question at a team meeting, when riding the train or the bus or even when you have the thought that you might have left a tap running in your house.
If you are interested in asking any questions about any of the events please email faceyourfears@anxietyuk.org.uk
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Living With Fear
Do you avoid certain situations because of fear or anxiety?
Living W
ith Fear takes a detailed look at the various kinds of symptoms most commonly encountered. Nowadays the extensive list of phobias has increased significantly and examples include: fear of heights, fear of flying , claustrophobia, arachnophobia, fear of speaking, fear of germs, insects and crowds, social anxiety, as well as severe depression, grief and general anxiety. This book describes in simple layperson’s terms the professional treatments, both physical and psychological, now available. It also has an invaluable step-by-step self-help section for those wanting to treat themselves.
How will Living With Fear help me?
This book will help you to:
• Understand the difference between normal and abnormal anxieties
• Recognise when you need to seek professional help and when you can treat yourself
• Find self-help organisations and useful websites around the world
• Understand the range of medication available and the recommended doses
Now in its second edition, Living With Fear has won critical acclaim throughout the world and has been translated into ten languages. It has provided informative and reassuring help to sufferers, their families and friends and healthcare professionals.
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is probably the most common and distressing phobic syndrome for which adult patients seek help from psychiatrists. The word comes from the Greek root agora meaning an assembly or market place and was first used by the German psychiatrist Westphal in 1871 to describe the ”impossibility of walking through certain streets or squares or possibility of so doing only with resultant dread or anxiety”. Today agoraphobia still describes fears of going into public areas such as streets, shops, or vehicles in variable combinations. At one extreme some people simply have a mild travel phobia or fear of closed spaces with no other problems. At the other extreme, people may have not only agoraphobia and other phobias but also panics without obvious cause, depression and many other difficulties. Living With Fear explains symptoms, case studies, conditions which affect agoraphobia and the treatment thereof.
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Living With Fear sets out clearly the steps to take towards overcoming a phobic problem. A universal book for sufferers, carers and professionals alike. If you suffer from any form of anxiety or tension, or hope to treat these problems, you owe it to yourself to read this marvellous book. Living With Fear is an indispensable aid if you are troubled by anxiety, or care about someone else who is. It covers the gamut from clinic-based therapies to a self-help treatment section. These are quotes from Clinical Professors of Psychiatry.
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What would happen if I had a panic attack?
Charles Darwin, who taught us about natural selection, drew a vivid picture of fear.
“The frightened man first stands like a statue motionless and breathless… the heart beats quickly and violently.. the skin instantly becomes pale.. perspiration immediately exudes from the skin and as the surface is then cold (a cold sweat).. the hairs also on the skin stand erect and superficial muscles shiver. in connection with the disturbed action of the heart, the breathing is hurried.. the mouth becomes dry .. one of the best marked symptoms is trembling of all the muscles of the body and this is often first seen in the lips”. Living With Fear teaches you how to overcome your fears and how to deal with a panic attack