Drug Treatment Oregon
Drug Treatment Oregon
Drug-Free Treatment for Panic Disorder is not Readily Available.
“If Only I knew, I would have never started on medication!”
I meet more and more panic sufferers, who are unaware that, in 1991, the National Institute of Health (NIH) endorsed a powerful, Drug-Free, scientific method to live panic-free. CBT for Panic Disorder, provided by Trained Expert Doctors, is still not readily available. When I meet patients for the first time, they often tell me they are relying on minor tranquilizers or antidepressants to stop anxiety attacks. Many panic attack victims have no idea there is an effective drug-free alternative for panic relief.
Panic Disorder Medication Tapering and Pregnancy
For example, in my initial meeting with *Sally, a 31 year old married executive assistant, she told me she had been taking anti-anxiety medication for three years. Sally desperately wanted to discontinue her medication and try to become pregnant. But, she was terrified of a new burst of panic attacks once she was drug-free.
Sally depended on her medication to stop panic attacks. Her fear of an intensification of heart pounding, numbness, shortness of breath and rubbery legs made her reluctant to even consider decreasing her reliance on anti-anxiety medication.
Are You Ready to Feel the Panic Symptoms Without Fear?
Here is what I told Sally. “Don’t even consider tapering off medication, unless you are ready to feel the panic symptoms without fear.” “How do you do that?” She asked. I told Sally, “First you must see the two parts of panic and see the sensation of rubbery legs as not related to the false thought of collapsing. Then, under your Doctors supervision, you can initiate the first very low dose drug reduction.”
The Beginner’s Mistake: “I hope I Can Stop Anti-anxiety Medications and Stay Panic-free.”
But you must not make the beginner’s mistake! Do not hope you can taper off medication and never feel the panic symptoms again. You will set yourself up for a huge Setback. When you decrease your dependence on minor tranquilizer to stop panic, rebound panic is almost 100%. So when you taper off your medication, depend on the return of panic attack symptoms!
Prepare in Advance to Feel the Panic Sensations You Dread the Most
Before you initiate, the very first dose reduction, you must prepare in advance and expect to feel the sensations you dread the most. Rehearse in advance the CBT procedures that will guide you to neutralize the symptoms of panic attacks.
If you pull back in fear when you feel weakness and rubbery legs, you release more adrenaline. Then, you feed the panic feelings with fear. CBT utilizes training methods to teach you how to desensitize yourself to panic symptoms. Once you feel the panic sensations without fear, the symptoms shrink away like fleeting flashes of adrenaline.
Look at Medication Tapering as a Training Program in Panic Symptom Neutralization
So before you start a tapering program, you must initiate a CBT program to overcome your fear of the panic attack symptoms of rubbery legs, heart pounding, jelly legs, numbness and tingling or whatever other sensations you might encounter.
Three Steps to Successful Medication Tapering
Step One: You must be Symptom Ready. Be ready to feel the panic sensations without fear.
Step Two: Next, You must be Symptom Tough. Don’t blink when symptoms come for a visit
Step Three: Finally, You must be Symptom Friendly. Neutralize and normalize your symptom
*References to real persons, places and events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended in any way to be libelous, defamatory or in any way factual.
This educational information should always be used in consultation with your doctor to confirm a diagnosis and review available treatments for panic disorder.
About Dr. Stephen Blumberg:
Dr. Blumberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and completed an Internship in Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Medical Psychology at the University of Oregon Medical School. Dr. Blumberg received a Certificate in Behavior Therapy from Temple University School of Medicine and is a licensed Psychologist in Florida, Massachusetts and New York. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Florida Psychological Association, and is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Blumberg’s vast experience in the field of Behavioral Medicine Programs for Panic, Anxiety and Stress Disorders has taken him across the USA in a variety of challenging roles.
For more information about Out of the Blue and Dr. Blumberg, please visit whypanic.com.
Stay connected through the Out of the Blue Blog (http://www.whypanic.com/blog) and Twitter @paniclink (http://twitter.com/paniclink).
What is the most laid back Drug Rehab Center in Oregon?
I am looking for a residential substance abuse program that works. I am an adult female who struggles with opiate addiction. Not to say that is the point. Anyways I would prefer to attend one where there was less (key word here less, all Treatment Centers will be strict to an extent, I know this.) structure. Preferably being able to use an iPod, computer, phone. Free time. A nice campus. All that good stuff. If you can help let me know. Please no rude comments or stating the obvious. Thank you.
The ones that come to mind are the Pacific Hills and Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs.
These are excellent programs and have a been around for some time
I have to commend you for making the effort, it is a positive sign of good things to come for you.
Good luck
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