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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ann
thanks for sending me mails on how to succeed in overcoming anxiety…step by step im beggining to understand facts on anxiety and realized that im in-charge of my life. super thanks!
Jeff
There is proof in every word you say. I’ve been drinking more water due to the heat and my anxiety has decreased. Thank you for the mini series, it’s been extremely helpful.
Yati
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY ON BEHALF OF EVERY PERSON WHO IS SUFFERING FROM PANIC ATTACKS, “GOD BLESS YOU”. YOU ARE REALLY GOD FOR US. THANK A LOT FOR YOUR MINI COURSE AND KEEP SENDING ME THE SAME……. YATI
Michelle Smith
Your work is fantastic your emails have helped me a great deal I have suffered panick/anxiety attacks on and off for years and everything has been a struggle even picking my daughter up from nursery would bring on an attack..im so gratefull and glad to say that after reading your emails I have cancelled my appointment to get hypnotised tomorrow as I feel a million times stronger in myself …thank you ..and I hope everybody success in getting over the awfull feeling of anxiety
ahmed
Thank you for your help , God bless you . I ‘m in need of your support to reach our goal peacfully immediately
jun
Thank you for the mini series.It really answer all my question’s about panic attack.HOPE that you keep sending me your mini series exercises.THANKS A LOT…… JUN
Melinda
I appreciate your emails. The things you mention are very practical and I am beginning to use them even though I do not have general anxiety or very many panic attacks like I read that others have. I have social or performance anxiety. I have had this since I was a young child because of being teased mercilessly by my school mates due to an indescretion by one of my teachers. Ironically, I am a teacher and am teaching something I dread doing when put on the spot–Reading. I get extremely nervous and could even panic, or begin trembling. Needless to say, I do not read very much to the class. Reading one on one does not bother me as much. When I am called on to speak to a group, I’m the same. Sometimes I feel that I am such a failure and should quit my job. I have purchased several cognitive behavioral programs and I feel it has helped some. But it does not seem that anything will cure me. I would love to speak with freeness of speech in a calm & relaxed manner. I feel that I could be a good speaker and an excellent reader if I were not so nervous…..any suggestions?
Joe Barry
Hi Melinda
Have you read this this article about social phobias which provides some useful techniques for dealing with trembling hands and other symptoms?
Kind regards,
Sal
James
Thanks for the email about the water…
“malaking tulong sya” I will overcome this panic of mine
jecisne@
thanks for this info, so far you are 100% acurate with your program all these tips and excercises really work. thank and god bless
hasanriyazul
thak you very much for ur advice and help. ur mini series rvery good may god bless u with good health happiness and success in ur task .i wnt to get rid of anxity,panic attacks and depresson i hope u will help me.
thanking u sir.
yours affectionaty.
dr.hasanriyazul.
thank you barry
thank you very much all your comments has been very helpful,I suffered terrible GAD, still suffering , i look forward to all your response.
padma
thank you barry
Thank you soooooooooooo much for your comments, i need to get my self confidence back, please I’m looking forward fro more advise from you, water certainly does help.
Thank you, padma
joyce
Your mini course is very helpful. After the 3rd mini course, I had a wonderful day. I guess it takes time to teach an old dog new trick, because all that day I kept waiting for the anxiety to hit and it never did. I am going to purchase your program.
carol
Thanks a miilion, I’m still trying to get use to the messages and working with them. Please don’t stop sending them to me. I REALLY need them, just to get through the day.
Giam
For all the help and knowledge you’ve shared to help so many people out there, I pray God will bless you abundantly with good health, joy and peace. Reading your articles has helped me to understand what people go through when they are stressed and how we can manage it. Knowing first of all that it is sth so common, in fact normal, helps remove fears and gives us assurance.
Thanks a zillion, !
Jay-ar
Your such a great person, helping people like me that has anxiety problems. I tested all the mini courses that you has mailed to me and all of them were succesful, thanks.If you dont mind, I already know that water can ease panic attacks because in every time that i am panicking i drink water and it reduces my panics. It is very true that water is the equilizer of anxiety attacks.Thank you for all your help and may god bless you and your family.
Jay-ar
I just wanna say thank you for all the help that you have given to me by sending the mini courses. I practiced those courses and are succesful, thank you very much sir. if you dont mind, i already know that water can reduce anxiety attacks because when im panicking i always drink water and it eases me. It is very true that water is a quencher of anxiety, and, thank you sir for that advise.Your such a great person sir.May God bless you and your family.
muneet
thanks a lot for all ur advices n mini course u have sent.i am a medical student and have suffered bouts of anxiety during my exams .i hope ur advice work for me.
Rhonda
Thanks for the miniseries I just began having these panic attacks recently and already I feel much stronger to be able to handle them. Immediately my doctor put me on medication and I have been taking it for seven weeks now but as of the last three days I have started cutting down my intake of the meds and have started trying to slowly wean myself off them.. Thanks so much this really shows people that you are committed to helping them and not just interested in their money… The mini series is great and you are great…Thanks so much again and God Bless..
LINDY
good to get the messages. Good also, to hear that you are not alone. This stuff is diffiult – but facing it, accepting it, welcoming it has helped. Drinking water is vital – found that out also.
Keep up the good work. your little messages are a lifesaver .
Another thing, that I found helped – is crying. Releasing. Also maybe holding in mind that your body is trying to heal. Just a thought.
rose kelly
im 49yrs old and ive suffered panic attacks and depression since i was 22yrs old, ive always tried to cope on my own but due to grief this year its got so much worse i thankyou for my miniseries and im looking forward to your help through it to cope better in my dark world regards rosemary.
diane
….I am trying to grasp this and find if it can replace all the drugs I won’t take..You are wonderful to share with so many broken people. A God send that we are not alone. The horror of this disease has no words. With your help I WILL get over it. !!!! I am going on four years of struggles.
Zoe W
Although iv only been doing these remedies for only 4 days im feeling much better, after feeling so ill for so long & thinking there was something seriousley wrong with me.Im still not 100% yet but getting there,Im still having panick attacks but not as long & not as often.Could you tell me how long it takes for people not to feel anxious n be waiting for the next panick to happen?I am def going to try to drink more water even though i hate water lol.Would flavoured water be ok? Thanks for all your help so far 🙂
julia
Really appreciate you sending me this mini course. It has helped me cope with the fear and panic that has suddenly started up again. It’s good to know that someone has an alternative to medication and talk therapy.
Thankyou so much.
prashant
You have done a vital job for me,i used to be a very happy person but since some time i was distracted from my life and i was experiencing excessive mental turmoil.You have given a great remedy for the people suffering from this anxiety.You are doing a great social job,god is definately going to pay you for your deeds.your formulas are so simple to implement,and can bring the bliss to the people.keep it up.might you get every thing that you desire in your life,be happy and good bye.
weng
hi,thanks a lot..god bless:)
Shan
I have been having panic attacks off and on for years. I have discovered that death is a trigger for me. It started when my mom passed away, and then it went from there. I have been panic attack free for years. I did the whole xanax and antidepressant thing and ended up in a drug rehab for the xanax. Almost to the point of overdose. When my panic attacks started this time I decided I was not going to do the drug thing this time. However I was still using the old technques of how to handle them. So, I thank you for your new insight for how to handle them. I have been agoraphobic for 6 mnths now and for the first time I got out of my safe zone yesterday without having to have someone on the phone with me. It felt great.Finding this web sight has been a god send. I am surrounded by people who dont understand what is happening. And because of that I have been pulling away from my family. They do not understand that although I am surrounded by people that I feel like im on a deserted island. So it helps to know that i am not alone. It also helps to think that the person in the car next to me is feeling the same way.
Shan Underwood
Barry thank you so much for the emails. they have helped alot and just knowing that i am not alone is even greater help. I read all the comments and it in it self makes me feel calm. once again thank you
chris clarke
Thank you for the e.mails you send to me. I will let you now in due course how they work for me.
Thanks again.
Chris
jessika
thank you for your help.well yestersday i had a funeral to attend,it was my grandmother.but i was afraid to go to church what if i had a pannic attack i thought.but then i started your 20 second way to get rid of a pannic attack,and each time i felt my heart started to beat at a higher speed, i started counting for 1 to 20 seconds and then take a deep breath so i stayed in there for almost 15 minutes which is preety good for me i think then i went with my friend to talk a walk in the afternnon and it is something i normally don’t do because of my fear,but i did it any way.i’m so glad.
really thank you
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feelng a lot better in meself now still away to go but now im just blaming the weather winter s drawng
in. you are so right about the water always carry a bottel of fresh water with me and not long ago i had a funny turn in a bank but soon as got out and had some water it carmed me down and was ready to take on the world. you thnk at first you are the only person in the world this happens to but readng and talkng to people im not and I do have a full tme job and the people I work with are so nice and I have found out 5 people who I work with have them to or have had them and it also puts your mind to ease that you dont have to go through it aloan x x x x
Myriam
Thank you so much Mr. Barry for all the great advice you give freely. It really helps and I’m very grateful for every message I get from your web site. At first when I suscribed to get more information about anxiety and panick attacks, I thought I’d get a few tips but mostly advertising urging me to take the course right away if I wanted to know anything useful at all. I was actually surprised to find each of your letters very interesting; in fact, they have helped me a lot so far and I really appreciate receiving a new one every day. It shows not only that what you have to say is based on true research and works effectively indeed, but also that you care about the people who need to know all those things. Thanks again!
Veronica
You are very correct about alcohol and the hangover, its better to avoid it at once if we can. Water, 100% right, I found out that after drinking it I burb, which relieves the fullness in my stomach I always have when I’m anxious.
Thanks and God bless!
Rameena
U know what ??? the real amazing thing is your details describing the feelings involving general anxiety & panic disorder.. i ve kinda browsed all sites about it and never saw such details except here with u. i mean these details only to begin with gave me such reassuring feeling that this man knows exactly what we’re talking about here ..this alone was such a relief . i didnt buy the program yet and yet reading this made me feel lots better …these glimpses made me sure that the program works magic
joseph
I’ve been suffering from anxiety & panic 4 about 25 years! no med pro has ever told me some of the things you’ve told me, i guess there just sooooo clinical, at least thay gave me the right meds ! i’ve always been an extreamly posative person,i will continue to use the tips you gave me.just last night a nasty panic attack hit me like a mac truck,i tryed despreatly to ward it off,but i had to give into the meds, (damn it) i’ve lerrned quickly to practice getting use to not having to use the meds,One attack @ a time.Stick it out everyone,we’ll get there 🙂 GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!! JOSEPH……..
ELIZABETH
MR. BARRY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION. ALREADY, I FEEL LIKE I CAN
BE MY OLD SELF AGAIN. I WILL START DRINKING WATER TODAY BECAUSE I DID NOT REALIZE WATER
WAS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR LIVES.
I DO THE THINGS YOU ASK US TO TRY AND I COULD NOT BRING ON AN ATTACK. I FEEL BRAVE
NOW AND ONCE AGAIN I AM DRIVING MY CAR ALL BY MYSELF. I AM NOT AFRAID TO BE WITH MY GRANDCHILDREN ALONE BECAUSE I WAS TOO SCARED OF GETTING AN ANXIETY ATTACK.
Samuel
Thanks Mr. Barry,
Your mini courses are just splendid! I had accepted general anxiety to be part of my personality till I read your first mail. I will like to qoute you here: “SOMETIMES TAKING VERY SMALL STEPS CAN LEAD TO MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS”
I have seen massive improvements. Thanks.
Vass
Oh, I was wondering about water too, i dont drink enough…I will from now on…ty so much for helping.
Rose
I just want to say : Thank you Mr.Barry.You give me hope.Thank you!
Rose
Norway
still reading,learning and trying out your metods against my generalized /social anxiety.it works!
keep it up!
irma
beautiful article . many facts I ignored about water but the habit has kicked in me ever since the trouble started. so true about the feeling of saciation and diet promoting properties. thank you so much for your helpful and interesting tips.
melissa
thankyou barry ive suffered for 12yrs and youve given me more helpful info in 5 blogs than any doctor or book in that time. thankyou i wil be regularly checking in and practising these exercises it sounds plain and simple i’m sure i can do it thankyou thankyou thankyou
Linda
Dear Joe, thank you so much for the service you are providing. I guess I’ve had these anxiety bouts in the past, but brushed them off as asthma attacks (which I do have), used my inhaler and got on with my life. That is, until recently when I felt like I had a cold, stomach acid, and a feeling of doom. My throat had a lump in it that make it hard to swallow, and I could not recall what I was thinking that could have caused it. This lasted almost a week, the most miserable week of my life I might add. I even thought I had a new strain of virus that caused all these symptoms, but my doctor said it was probably anxiety. When I asked him what I could do, he said nothing because my brain was in charge at that point. Sheesh, that wasn’t what I wanted to hear, so I came home and found your website. The minute I started reading the information at Panic Away, I could immediately feel my anxiety leaving. Remarkable! I am practicing the suggestions in the mini series and have found them most helpful. Unfortunately, my husband was just terminated from his employment and we are watching our funds, or I would have the Panic Away program downloaded by now. In the meantime, I will continue to practice your methods, and take charge of my life without drugs or therapy. Thanks so much for your valuable work.
Erica
Thank you for your emails, they are giving me hope that I will be able to return to a normal life again after two years and to realise I am not alone in suffering from this hellish and debilitating condition
Just off to start on my first of eight glasses of water!
vicki
Hi,
I am so thankful that I ran into your sight. I felt better today except for 2 times. the first time a coworker really irritated me so I just tryed to forget it at first and then I almost had a attack while I was driving home because the coworker made me mad and when I felt the tightening in my chest and a little bit of tingling, I just told the attack to stop and that it doesnt scare me anymore it STOPPED. even my dizzyness when away. lol I get dizzyness with mine. and then I was washing the floors in my kitchen and after I was done I was feeling a little bit anxious that could of turned into me paceing the floor but I just turned on the computer and started into my email and it went away as well as the dizzyness. Maybe it was the smell of the pinesole that made me anxious? who knows. Anyway I beleive this is part of gods plan to heal me of this miserable condition. thank you so much. Last week I couldn’t even function. I missed work due to 2 panic attacks. I am still in AWW over how well this is working. I am not 100% cured but I beleive if I just keep working at it with the lord I will be.
may god bless you in so many ways
vicki
Gloria
Thank you so much! I felt so hopeless until I discovered your site. I really didn’t know where to turn. My anxiety began while being sick with upper respiratory infection. I didn’t realize so many others were experiencing the same feelings. I tried the Belly breathing excercizes and got relief right away. I also will be drinking more water. I look forward to your emails every day.
vanessa
Thank you for all your help and advice- at fifty years of age I thought I had just about been through everything that could scare me rigid – and then I “discovered” panic attacks…! Strewth! Being human really sucks sometimes doesn’t it??
Thank God for the internet and you!
To all my brothers and sisters out there fighting your seemingly own demons – you are not alone and you WILL survive! Fall down seven times – get up eight!
God Bless
Sally
Hi – The five articles you have sent me have been absolutely wonderful – and have helped me enormously. I cannot believe how fortunate I was to have found your website – it is truly amazing and most of all it works! I have suffered panic attacks since what seems like forever – and the leading up to them as much as experiencing them has been horrendous. I feel a different person through reading and absorbing everything you have sent – and my fears seem to have evaporated already and more than that I feel in control!!!! Your ‘Water Helps Ease General Anxiety’ comments I can attest to – as I’ve never been able to travel anywhere without a bottle in my bag – and wherever I am I always have one close to hand. I know it has always helped me.
Thank you so much again!
Karen
Thanks for the mini-series on Managing Panic. I’ve learned something valuable from each lesson. I suffer from severe Generalized Anxiety, and worry about EVERYTHING. Lots of pessimistic thinking that I can’t seem to control. I enjoy your brief lessons, and will surely be looking them over again. I especially liked today’s lesson on water-drinking. I always have a water bottle in my hand, and aside from the biological advantages of ingesting water, holding the bottle also gives me something constructive to do with my hands. Thanks for all your wise words.
ylli
Thank you ever so much for the mini-series on Managing Panic.I have learned something valuable from each lesson.I enjoy your brief lessons,and will surely be looking for them over again.I especially liked today’s lesson on water-drinking.I do it every day drinking 3 litres of water a day and I feel it helps me to get rid my stress and anxiety. Thanks again for your excellent lessons.
Belinda
Thanks so much for allowing yourself to be used to educate and help people like me. I have heard so much about water, but never knew dehydration is a contributing factor to anxiety and nervousness. Water indeed is a great quencher of anxiety. TRY IT AND YOU WILL SEE THE MAGIC. May God richly bless you and replenish whatever is lost in this great journey of yours.