When you suffer from panic attacks, it’s hard to believe there could ever be an end to it. Doctor’s tell you there’s a chemical imbalance that is out of your control. Friends think you just need to relax. Everyone seems to have an answer, but no one has a cure. In this article we’ll examine the truth behind panic attacks and answer the question once and for all: can you ever really cure anxiety?
If there’s one thing I would tell every panic sufferer, it’s that their doctor is wrong. My doctor would tell me how my anxiety is caused by not having enough of a neurotransmitter called seratonin in my brain to boost my mood. And no matter how many times I asked “But what caused the low seratonin?” he could never tell me.
You’ve probably experienced something similar.
My Doc means well, but a simple chemical imbalance doesn’t make sense. Your body produces seratonin when its happy, but seratonin isn’t your happiness — it’s a symptom of your happiness. That simply means that unhappiness and anxiety aren’t caused by low seratonin, the opposite is true – it’s unhappiness that causes low seratonin.
The worst thing about this view of panic and anxiety is that if you believe that low seratonin is the only thing causing your panic, it means there is nothing you can do about it. You’re officially doomed to a life of taking expensive medications that don’t always work. But when you realize that there is something else in your life that’s causing your seratonin levels to dip, you suddenly give yourself control to change what’s happening.
So the ultimate question is, “Can you cure anxiety completely?”
And the answer is yes, you can, if you believe that you are more complex than just a chemical imbalance. The cure, of course, will require digging deep into your anxiety and rooting out its main cause instead of just masking its symptoms.
But yes, you can absolutely cure your anxiety for good.
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