Water Helps Ease General Anxiety!
Today I want to look at something so simple and yet equally powerful in alleviating the symptoms of general anxiety. This tip also helps reduce the frequency and strength of panic attacks.
Fresh Drinking Water
There is no quicker way to significantly reduce general anxiety than adopting good eating and drinking habits. One of the most easily implemented and effective additions to your diet is fresh water.
Water is a great quencher of thirst but more importantly here –a great quencher of anxiety.
Nearly every function of the body is monitored and pegged to the efficient flow of water through our system. Water transports hormones, chemical messengers, and nutrients to vital organs of the body.
When we don’t keep our bodies well hydrated, they may react with a variety of signals… some of which are symptoms, of anxiety. Here is some interesting information about water
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so
weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism
as much as 3%.
4. One glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for
almost all of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5. Lack of water, is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Regular fresh drinking water is a vital ingredient to your diet. This is something the medical profession has been telling us for years. When we are dehydrated our cells can feel this at a molecular level and communicate this to the subconscious as an underline subtle anxiety or threat to survival.
The key to re-balancing a deficit of fluids is to drink eight glasses of fresh water daily. You must spread this intake throughout the day and not drink it all in one go! Otherwise you don’t give your body a chance to absorb it.
Have you noticed the effects of dehydration on your emotions before? If you have ever suffered from a serious hangover after a night out on the town, you will understand the feeling of dehydration all too well.
Hangovers result from dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the “the hangover fear”. This is a heightened sense of anxiety and jumpiness that results from the dehydration of hangover.
The surest way for someone who suffers from high anxiety to experience yet more anxiety, is to drink excessive amounts of alcohol and wait for the hangover to set in the following day.
It is important to be aware that dehydration is a factor that contributes to anxiety and nervousness. The good news is that it is easily remedied by drinking regular fluids. Personally, I have found that not only does regular intake of water ward off any subtle feelings of anxiety, but it is also incredibly useful for building stamina and avoiding fatigue. Give this some real consideration. Simply increasing the amount of fresh water you drink is a very easy step to incorporate into your daily routine. Most of us fall short of consuming the recommended amount.
Always remember that there is a lot of hope for an immediate and successful recovery from all forms of panic attacks and anxiety disorders. You can have the life of your dreams – Anxiety does not have the right to steal that hope from you.
Sometimes taking very small steps can lead to massive improvements. One of my favorite writers wrote about how everyone should approach their problems with the same philosophy as the woodpecker.
Keep chipping away at it and eventually the whole damn tree will collapse!
Barry Joe McDonagh
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Luke
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Lucy
Your emails that you keep sending me are making me realise how common panick attacks actually are. And every mail makes me feel more happier and confident! I think something so simple like drinking more water is great and will deffenatley try it out! Thanks so much for your help! Lucy.
sarv
Hi, I just want to say that i’m so greatfull in finding your website when i most needed some urgent advise, I look forward to everyday day to seeing your advises on how to handle anxiety and it amazes me to know how many people suffer from this.
I just want to say thank you for all the mini course you have sent me so far, I have read them over and over again to try to get the hang of each options you have given me and how to deal with it.
And drinking water…I think that’s the only thing that is keeping me going as i have no appetite for food.
Sarv
geetu
i am surprised & thankful for your wonderful advice. i would appreciate if u guide me how to avoid negetavity. i am a very negative person. unwanted thougts keep troubling me and i not able to enjoy my present. please advice.
ylenne milian
I really am new to these panic attacks and my fears grow more when away from my house i work everyday in fear that im going to have one. It is very uncomftorble at times when im busy and have to keep my mind focused at work. Im new to this site and im trying to understand the steps but my mind keeps telling me that something is wrong with my health. I have gone to the ER twice in a month thinking that im going to pass out or have a heartattack i dont know what else to do about this problem and i really dont want to rely on medication. Can you please send me some advice on what I should do in these situations please i would very much appreciate it.
Erica
I have been suffering, and I mean SUFFERING, with anxiety and panic for over 20 years, I am only 31 years old. So, it’s been a long hard road at a very young age. I’m DONE with this life. I just got married 6 mos ago and want my LIFE back. I can no longer sit by and watch my life pass me by because I am too worried to live it. I too, need a daily reminder of staying strong and thinking good thoughts. These e-mails are wonderful as repeated GOOD thoughts are essential to my survival of this anxiety.
Emily
Im having a real hard time with my panic attacks. I have tried your way of thinking, like when i get anxious in front of people (all my panic attacks happen in front of somebody) I am thinking about making the panic happen, bring it on! But it is not working, now I am more stressed than ever that I will never fix myself. I am so broken.
LaDy
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Paul
Hi! I find your Panic Away mini course useful for anxiety relief. I’ve been battling against anxiety and unreasonable fear for many years. Then I found your website and trying to follow this simple technique.I look forward for your guidance while struggling to do away with my ticklish attitude in life. I always tend to be pessimistic towards life. But, I resolve to change and make use of your discovery to relish feeling of anxiety. So, good Lord help me!
Paul
Lillian
Thanks so much for the info on Anxiety/Panic attacks. I am new at this and the thought of an attack makes me crazy. Water, wow, this is great, I will start now because I am so ready to relive myself from this anxiety. I dont want to be scared anymore! I want to feel like me again. I miss me! Thank U!
Angie
Hi just wanted to say thanks for the e mails i look forward to seeing what new advice you give me everyday, i drink water anyway so this should be easy for me, but the advice i like best so far is giving my brain 20 seconds to get sorted i have used this often like ten times a day and I feel it works well for me so thanks and look forward to more useful and helpful advice. I just hope someday soon I will be me again.
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Karen
Such a simple tip but the description of “hangover fear” is incredibly accurate. I’m sure many of us resort to alcohol to calm our jumpy nerves without realising that it makes things worse the next day.
4TH Infantry Soldier
I picked up my panic attacks and anxety after i made it back from the Iraq War. I was always on edge and only wanted to stay in my safe zone. My attacks were so bad I couldnt even go to family functions. I found your web site and from the first lesson on , i have been improving myself and my wellbeing . Thanks for all your help.
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I for one did not really realize the extent of my anxiety untill I listened and read all of your mini courses.I could not believe what an incredable impact the mind has over the body. You have hit the nail on the head in so many ways. It is amazing I am trying so hard to practice your techniques. I have always been a positive person but in the last two years I have gone from one extreme to the other and feel I just cannot get rid of the dark cloud hovering over my head and thinking negative. I hope I can be like the woodpecker and make the whole tree fall. Thank you so much for your caring of people who suffer with this dreadful happening and all your wonderful input and expertise on trying to over come this.Thank you from the bottom of my heart. P.S. Ikeep trying to tell my doctor about feeling like I had a FOG in my head and I think he thought I was a wacko. Then I started believing that I was to untill I heard from you. Once again thank you. Cherry
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Teri
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Dionne
Thank you so for sending me these information on anxiety I was so thirsty yesterday so now I have to start drinking eight glass of water starting today Thank you again and I am glad that I found you. I know I will be ok soon
Linda
I just started your course, and I already feel stronger. I was beggining to feel like I was losing my mind, and not being in touch with reality. But your technique is genius. Every other book I read told me to try to distract yourself, fold laundry, but this is course helps you face the fear, and I feel great already. The hangover effect is true. That is why I shy away from parties now. Thank you so much A million times, your a gift from above… 🙂
samantha jane gomez
thank u for the information, i am currently taking lexapro now and rivotril for my panic attacks and agoraphobia… i feel better though but i wish i will stop taking those meds now…. ive been taking it for a week now…. thanks barry
Andrew
I have had anxiety disorder since I was a young child. I am now 68. I started taking valium when I was in my 30’s. I had no idea how addicting this would be. Two years ago I went to a rehab program, and was taken off the medication very quickly, and with little support other than phenobarbital to prevent seizures. I came out of the rehab much worse than when I entered. I had strong phobias, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, social anxiety. I lost 50 pounds. I was a wreck. I found a psychiatrist, and she put me on alternative medications for my anxiety. Nothing was working. After three months of worsening agoraphobia, she put me back on the benzodiazepine, Klonapin (Rivotril). I was able to drive for the first time since rehab. I was able to fly again. I moved down to Los Angeles, and found a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction. He has been working on getting me weaned off the Klonapin. Thanks to Barry’s “Panic Away” program, I am now much more hopeful of getting my anxiety under control without benzodiazepines. Working the Panic Away program gives me the courage and the knowledge that I can control my anxiety, rather than thinking that it controls me. Are there others out there who were put on benzodiazepines in the 1970’s? I would like to hear others’ stories.
Maribel
Thank you so much for your blog and your newsletters. I am doing all that i can one step at a time i am glad i found your site.
Christina
I was having a couple of panic attacks and I drank some water and now its gone and then I came to this which made me feel relieved. Ive been SUFFERING from panic attacks non stop through the day for about a month now. Reading your articles gave me more confidence. Hopefully these articles will help me get rid of these panic attacks very soon:) soon, I’ll ne back living my wonderful life in reality and forever out of my horrible life in a nightmare. Thank u so much:) God Bless You and All of Us:)
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Ahmed
I actually started to look at my panic attacks from a different positive point of view. I consider myself lucky since I found your website by accident on the net. The 4 courses you have sent me were a great deal in reducing my anxiety. I am very appreciative to you and I wish that you not to stop sending me those wonderful mini courses!!!
Myriam
Hello!! thank you for this helpfull information!! I think that understanding is the best cure, in this case, understanding that thoughs and body feelings wont hurt,, hard to accept, but im working on it,, on the mini course when you said look for a panick attack,, i notice how afraid of them i am.. so i couldt do it driving or anywhere else, but yesterday i was home washing dishes and i made my self have one,, i started breething deep, then i got all the body feelings then… i got panicky,, i run to the living room, then i went back did it again, and this time i relaxed,, then the whole day, my anxiety went down,, wow, that was some great learning lesson. Thank you for the advice.
danny
ITS CRAZY HOW AFTER USING THIS ACOUPLE DAYS LATER I STARTED FEELIG CALM BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME AND I STARTED FEELING GOOD ITS CRAZY !!
subodh
I am having confidence gradually and hope your course will really relief me from this hell.
Andreas
Thank you very much for the newslatters and the wonderful advise. I feel very fortunate to have found your website as it has been very helpful. I suffer from fear of insanity, general anxiety and panic attacks and life has been very difficult for me. Your e-mails have been very enlightning and encouraging.
Patrick Vella
I was weak, scared, terrified and very anxious all the time, even if i dont show it….been like this for over 20 years…your mini course and full course is so straight forward and so simple that sometimes I could not understand why could not be so rational myself….thank you so much, I am better…not cured, but much better…accepting the panic attack already kills (i would say) 70 percent of it, a balance diet helps even more…but the method of gratitude and the method of challenge the panic attacks…they are awesome…though i cannot say i am hundred percent cured, It is really helping me, especially when i go back to read it whenever it is necessary! Thanks pal…by the way I am from MALTA (MEDITERANEAN REGION) EUROPE
Lee
Dear Barry
I have been suffering from panic disorder for the last 6 years…I have always felt so alone and trying to cope with my disease and always thinking and trying to understand why IT has happened to me..With your advice I have stopped thinking why this has happened to me but instead listen to myself, my body and trying to have some things under control..Now I even think that maybe all this has happened for a good reason to introduce me to myself for a second time!Thank you for your awesome advice!
william
Just started a couple of weeks ago. Great ideas. Going on a long trip to Asia in a month and starting to worry some, but using your excellent ideas.
Frequent water idea is also helpful. Thanks
Emmett Wright
I am 83 years old and have been suffering from anxiety or apprehension
for several years. I have tried the various prescription drugs, all
of which worked in reverse. I have just discovered your site and
appreciate your advice. It is too soon to tell whether or not I can
be helped, but I am grateful for your insight.
Rowayne
Thank you so much for sending me the mini course. It is absolutely helping me tremendously, and I can honestly see the bright and positive side of my life. Coz its really hard for me having this feelings for two years and its really affects my job as a teacher. But thanks to God that i am still functioning my job. I actually started to look at my panic attacks from a different positive point of view. I am so lucky since I found your website by accidentaly on the net. You are so woderful. Thanks God for you are here to rescue me.The 4 courses you have sent me were a great help in reducing my anxiety. I am very thankful to you and I wish that you not to stop sending me those wonderful mini courses!!!
toni
i am still new to this, but i am so happy that i have found you, as you truly no how it feels to have anxiety and panic attacks and i feel that you totally understand. therefor i can trust you and believe you no what is best.i am only 21 and didnt no what anxiety was up untill now, which has helped me understand my body more and how it works, i have learnt not to be scared but to keep pushing my self and try and get past this horrible time in my life, at the moment i am using the one move technique and defantly i can say this is helping me, i managed to actually go into the shops a couple days ago, which before i would walk in and straight back out, i like trying new techniques and find your mini courses a great help, i cant wait untill im back to my happy self again and enjoy all the things i have been missing out on, i cant wait, thankyou , toni
Glo
Thank you so much for the newsletters following the purchase of the program. I am a newish sufferer (only a month) but it has turned my life upside down from having attacks while driving and then beginning to become agorophobic. However I actually managed to catch a bus home from work today so although only a simple thing, it made me feel so much more confident that I am hopefully on the road to recovery. Will also up my intake of drinking water and have already stopped drinking caffeinated tea & coffee. Am on medication for very high BP but together with your program maybe I can get back to normal before too long 🙂
Pradeep
Thnaks For Your Mini Series Course & Article in Water It Really Working
isam
Dear Barry
Your site and mini course so far helped me to understand the nature of my anxiety attacks and helped me too to to feel much better and more relaxed without any medication. I am waiting the rest of the course
Thank you so much
Isam – Jordan
Paul
I must say I am have been fortunate to have strubled across the program when confused and hopeless.I have been struggling with anxiety disorder for the last 5 years and was beginning to believe that there is no hope. However having suscribed to your program and miniseries it now appears the solution to my condition is very simple closed. Your series and program are very down to earth, userfriendly and easy to follow. They are also very convincing, empowering and motivating as it appears to be based on actual and successful experiences and facts rather than simply theories and academia. Thanks you for using your experiences to help other.
Gago
Thanks a lot…..really now am feeling free from haevy bad insult of anxiety and panic attacks I have been through during last years and for long time, I know it was not a magic but a logic and method written by clever person like you enlight the dark way of my life and many other who suffers this ugly feelings, am gonna advice all my friends visit your site specially those suffering from panic attacks like me …again thanks a lot …my god please you ….
Amy
I really appreciate the mini series that are emailed to me. I have suffered from anxiety/panic attacks for about 9 years… I am only 26 and it has impacted a lot of my youth. So coming across this is better late then never, and I really believe it will help me over come all my anxiety and panic, and the best thing about it will be working through it myself and not having to increase my medication!!! I’ll keep posting my success! Thank you so much.
KonstantinMiller
I have been looking looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grateful if you will.
Sonal
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Venkat
Hi,
Thanks for your mini programs. In India , already our old scripts( Thirukural ) are telling some things like this, but, it is wonderful to know structured way of doing and good reviews from these many people.
Thanks,
Venkat
Tony
Hey I just want to say thank you for the mini’s, I have been suffering off and on from anxiety for about ten years. It brings me relief to hear that I’m not crazy, and not the only one who feel’s like this. I look foward to your e-mails and Any advice you give to rid myself of any more panic attacks. I am Truely Grateful, and Thanks again….
John B
I have a question? Does Vitamin water count as I drink this stuff everyday? I drink about three bottles a day, it seems as though thats all i can drink. I’m constantly craving it; is that bad? Also, I just want to let you know that I’ve been suffering from Panic disorder for 7 months now and it seems to get better each day, but I still fear that another attack will happen I just don’t know when. Your Mini’s r a great help thank you for that. One more thing my Dr. prescribed me Klonopin and Zoloft is that bad? please write back and let me know what i can expect from all this… scincerely John Buccat
Cherry
This is my second comment. I read your mini series eveyday if not twice a day. Each time I read them I am able to get a better grip on things and the way I think. I have high blood pressure that seems to sky rocket when I start thinking about it and the fear that goes along
with it. I take blood pressure medication and somedays it helps and somedays when I dwell on it I panic and up it goes. So after I read your mini series it seems to go down..Thank you so very much for everything. I also am hopeing to someday get back to normal. I so would like to order your book but I am on social security and my money is very tight. Maybe in the coming future I can order it as I know I would be able to benefit from it even more. Once again thank you. If you could ever e-mail me just to say HI I would love that. Thanks Thanks and more Thanks Cherry
Sundar
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Linda
THANKS FOR SENDING ME YOUR MINI INSTALMENTS.I NOW FEEL THAT THERE IS SOMEONE THAT REALLY UNDERSTANDS IT IS HARD TO TALK PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED PANIC ATTACKS IHAVE BEEN SO ILL WITH ANXIETY.AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME UNDERSTAND HOW TO CONTROL IT LINDA
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Jeff
This information proves its accuracy; I’ve increased my water intake because of the hot weather here and have noticed my anxiety levels come down drastically. Keep up the great work !!
Sincerely,
Jeff