ANXIETY PANIC

 ANXIETY PANIC

  Depression, anxiety, and panic are all closely tied together. If a patient has panic attacks you need to look for anxiety then if the patient has anxiety you need to look for depression.

  Traditional medical treatment of anxiety and panic attacks primarily involves the use of two prescription drug classes. The first class is the "minor tranquilizers" such as valium, Xanax, etc. Minor tranquilizers are addicting and do nothing to address the real cause of anxiety and panic attacks, neurotransmitter imbalance. Tranquilizers work by treating the symptoms and not the problem. The second group of prescription drugs used to treat anxiety and panic attacks are the serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs which are commonly used to treat depression. While these drugs have never been approved by the FDA for treatment of generalized anxiety and panic attacks doctors prescribe them primarily because they have nothing else to treat with. A major problem with the reuptake inhibitor drugs is that they deplete neurotransmitters making the cause of anxiety and panic attacks worse, neurotransmitter levels that are not high enough and are not in proper balance. In some cases with use of reuptake inhibitor drugs neurotransmitter depletion is so severe that the risk of suicide develops. In the left column of this web page is a listing of reuptake inhibitor drugs. When you click on each of these drugs the formal FDA required prescribing information will open. At the top of the first page of the prescribing information with most of these drugs is a warning about "clinical worsening" and the risk of suicide developing. When these drugs deplete neurotransmitter levels enough the drug quits working, the symptoms of the disease get worse then if the neurotransmitter depletion is severe enough the patient becomes suicidal. For people currently taking minor tranquilizers and/or reuptake inhibitor antidepressant medications the approach of NeuroResearch Clinics is excellent in getting them off these drugs.

  The link at the top left of this web page titled, "The Disease" leads to a discussion and listing of some of the neurotransmitter diseases associated with serotonin and dopamine that can be treated with the NeuroResearch Clinics approach. In people with anxiety, panic attacks, or any of the other diseases, most have 3 or more neurotransmitter diseases active at the same time. Yet the treatment is the same for each of these diseases because the cause of the problem is the same. The treatment is to optimize the serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitter levels with the nutritional formulas guided urinary neurotransmitter testing if needed. About 80% of people treated do not need urinary neurotransmitter testing for relief of symptoms. Urinary neurotransmitter testing is reserved for cases where relief is not obtained under the initial nutritional formula protocols in the first 3 to 4 weeks.

  Holding out that 100% of people achieve relief from depression, anxiety, and panic attacks when treated with the natural nutritional formulas under the protocols developed by NeuroResearch Clinics sets a high bar, but these are the results we are seeing in clinics everyday.