Empathy - Anxiety & Panic

Written by Joanne King


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So next time you find yourself cranky atrepparttar world or at your family and friends for not understanding your situation, turnrepparttar 138813 situation around. Look at how you can adopt this invaluable skill in your life.

A lot of it comes down to thinking before you speak. When someone comes to you with a situation, take a moment and think to your self “how would I feel if I was in their shoes”. Gatherrepparttar 138814 facts, don’t just assume. Assumptions can lead you into an unnecessary argument that never had to take place.

This is just scratchingrepparttar 138815 surface of what you can learn and take from your experience of anxiety and panic to better your life.

And remember, there are people out there that “do” understand what you are going through. I’m just one of many of them!

© Joanne King - http://www.anxiety-panic-free.com

About the Author - Joanne King is a former sufferer of Anxiety & Panic Attacks. She is the author of "How to Overcome Anxiety & Panic Attacks". She has helped other sufferers Worldwide to eliminate their Anxiety & Panic attacks. http://www.anxiety-panic-free.com


Diagnosing Spells: Fits, Faints and More

Written by Gary Cordingley


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Much of medical diagnosis is "pattern fitting" in whichrepparttar patient's story is matched up against typical stories told by patients with different, identified conditions, andrepparttar 138763 best fit wins. Or, said another way: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.

But what if it looks like a duck, walks like a goose and gobbles like a turkey? What is it then? Well, that's what we call an outlier or atypical case, and we just dorepparttar 138764 best we can.

Medical tests are available for some of these conditions, like an electroencephalogram (EEG) for seizure cases, a 5-hour glucose tolerance test for hypoglycemia, and prolonged cardiac monitoring for irregular heartbeats. But each of these tests has its own strengths, weaknesses, and blind-spots that need to be figured intorepparttar 138765 diagnosis. (For example, an EEG might be normal in a patient who really does have seizures.) Then, for some ofrepparttar 138766 conditions—like panic attacks, migraines and pseudoseizures—corroborating tests don't even exist.

Sometimesrepparttar 138767 available data permit a confident diagnosis and a specific treatment. In other casesrepparttar 138768 data allow one to narrowrepparttar 138769 possibilities to a short list, but not a single, final, definitive diagnosis. What then?

Sometimes watchful waiting is what's called for, also known as tincture of time. Once every obtainable clue has been assembled and they're still not enough to permit a firm diagnosis, then perhapsrepparttar 138770 best clue just hasn't happened yet and needs to be waited for.

Depending on which items are still onrepparttar 138771 diagnostic short-list, treatment might still be possible. For example, in a case in which it can't be decided if a patient has seizures, pseudoseizures, or both, it might be reasonable to try a decent dose of a good seizure-preventing drug, and watch to see if anything changes forrepparttar 138772 better.

Reading about inexactness in medical diagnosis might make some people uneasy. Perhaps it would be more comforting to believe that "a series of tests" could prove any diagnosis. For many conditions I'm sure that's exactly what happens, but it doesn't seem to be true for things that go bump inrepparttar 138773 night.

(C) 2005 by Gary Cordingley

Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD, is a clinical neurologist, teacher and researcher. For more health-related articles see his website at: http://www.cordingleyneurology.com


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