Anxiety, Menopause And Natural Ways To Combat It...

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What is anxiety?

Your heart races... your breathing becomes rapid and shallow... you feel faint or nauseous... your hands are trembling... you feel like you could cry or scream. These are the symptoms of anxiety. Everyone experiences anxiety, feels panicky, from time to time. This ability to feel fear is part of being alive and we need our "fight or flight" alarm to keep us out of harm's way.

However, all too many women operate in an ever present state of generalized anxiety feeling afraid, anxious, upset, fatigued, worried, and in a state of perpetual high alert without any tangible cause. With the onset of menopause anxiety can become a significant problem because of hormonal imbalance.

Many of the stressful PMS symptoms we, as women experience, are caused by the hormonal changes leading up to our period, but these can become an entrenched and chronic experience of stress and anxiety in peri-menopause and post-menopause because this is anxiety related to a significant hormonal change in our lives.

Symptoms of Anxiety during Menopause

Anxiety is becoming an epidemic in our society, and women in menopause are at greater risk than anyone. Here are some of the symptoms of anxiety you can watch for:

* Irrational fear or dread
* Muscle tension and headaches
* Chest pain
* Elevated heart rate and/or heart palpitations
* Insomnia
* Diarrhea
* Nausea
* Feelings of chest pressure and/or shortness of breath
* Jumpiness, irritability, shakiness
* Sudden changes in body temperature: hot flashes and/or feeling very cold
* Tearfulness
* Depression - 20 to 30 percent of women with anxiety also suffer from depression.

You Can Get Anxiety Relief In Menopause!

It is important that you find ways to control your anxiety as you enter menopause. Getting relief is all about changing the physical and emotional causes of your anxiety, because it is now documented in many medical studies that there is a correlation between anxiety and stress and a host of chronic health conditions from heart disease, depression to obesity.

The GOOD NEWS is that there are many natural things you can do to control your anxiety in menopause:

* Good nutrition is the foundation for the natural treatment of anxiety. Eat a balanced diet of whole foods, whole grains, fruits and vegetables to maintain a stable blood sugar level. Take a good daily nutritional supplement. Also make sure you drink plenty of water.

* Get your B Vitamins! B Vitamins are called the "anti-stress, feel-good vitamins" You need consistent levels of B Vitamins to feel good. When you are stressed and anxious B Vitamins are the first to be depleted from your body, so taking the right combination of B's, sublingual B-12, B6 and Folic Acid is a key to combating anxiety.

* Rebalancing your hormones will help soothe your anxiety.

* Physical activity is the single best way to handle your anxiety. Thirty minutes of exercise every day is one of the best anti-anxiety treatments you can give yourself. Deep breathing helps calm and relax you. Go for a walk. Put on an exercise video. Put on some music and dance.

* Go outside and get some fresh air and sunlight. The Vitamin D you get from sunlight can lift you out of depression and soothe your soul.

* Get enough sleep. When you don't sleep you set yourself up for the vicious cycle of anxiety and fatigue. Exercise and a good nutritional supplement can help you with this.

Take steps to control your anxiety in menopause before it controls you!

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