Three Natural Anxiety Treatments That May Help

Anxiety takes many forms. It can be something that affects you all the time or it could be a condition that only occurs when you are presented with certain situations. For instance, you may get nervous about a job interview. You may experience a more rapid heartbeat, or you could just start tapping your fingers or shaking your crossed leg. For some, anxiety causes worse problems. You may have trouble sleeping or the anxiety may cause you to drown in thoughts about what makes you anxious.

Whichever type of anxiety you experience, you certainly want relief from it. The good news is that anxiety treatment is available. The better news is that not only are there prescription medications you can take, but you can also use natural treatments for anxiety. This includes exercise for mental health. You can also try several herbal treatments for anxiety. The key to treating your anxiety is that you have to choose a method that works for you.

You also have to be willing to stick to it. Every “New Year” you probably know someone who goes on a popular diet program and loses weight, but then gain it all back again. This happens when you pick a method that you can’t sustain because it just isn’t you. You also must identify the type of anxiety so you can decide how to manage the anxiety. There are five recognized types and each has its own symptoms. You must choose the method that helps the type. If obsessive cleaning and hand washing is your symptom, then a treatment for constant fatigue, a symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, probably wouldn’t help you.

What Are the Types of Anxiety Treatment?

The type of treatment is related to your symptoms of anxiety. You don’t “cure” an anxiety disorder like you would an illness like the flu. Some of the benefits of medications are that they can treat problems that typically can’t be treated with self-care. Kava, CBD oil, and Kratom are three of the most popular herbal remedies. For example, if you have a job interview and you get anxious in social situations, you may be better off taking something like CBD before your interview. It does not get you high and people report it works rather rapidly. Those are two of the things that people like about CBD oil. The third is that studies did show pre-clinical evidence for CBD use in anxiety.

What About Kava and Kratom?

If one of your problems with upcoming stressful events is insomnia, and you prefer herbal treatments for anxiety, then perhaps you should look to Kratom as a safe alternative. It relaxes your anxiety symptoms like CBD oil does, but it also could cause you to fall asleep. You also should not operate cars and machinery while on it. If you want to get better sleep when you are experiencing anxiety, then red Borneo, one Kratom type of the Borneo strain, could be your answer.

Kratom comes in different strains depending mostly on the country it is native to. Kratom is primarily from Thailand, Sumatra, and Borneo.  Within each type are different colors. The veins on the leaves are either red, green, or white. The veins control the effect the kratom has. Red vein kratom is stress-reducing. White vein kratom is a mood enhancer and a stimulant. Green vein kratom lands somewhere between the two. The good thing is the strains can be mixed to provide exactly the effect you need. For example, if you are taking the white vein later than you normally would, you can mix it with the red vein so that your sleep pattern is not interrupted.

Though CBD oil and Kratom are popular, some use kava as a safe alternative to treat their anxiety. A Kava treatment study found that Kava, a plant native to the South Pacific, is useful in treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD. GAD is common and has symptoms such as:

• Restlessness
• Constant fatigue
• Trouble concentrating
• Muscle tension
• Sleeping problems

Kava helps relieve these symptoms. The study mentioned above proved that Kava works for anxiety, is safe, and has a relatively low cost.

What Other Natural Treatments for Anxiety Exist?

When you are ill or just not feeling yourself, you may need a little help to get you back on track. Though the herbals remedies are good you may want more research done before you jump in. There is nothing wrong with exercising caution. But while you are doing so, you still have anxiety that you want to treat. So, what do you do? What other options do you have? Lucky for you, other options do exist.

Anxiety is typically considered a mental health issue since the physical symptoms are minor; muscle tension, fatigue, insomnia, etc. If you are experiencing these issues, they don’t seem minor, but they don’t require immediate medical attention either. So, what else can you do?

One option you have is to exercise for mental health. Here is your brain chemistry lesson for the day. Your brain has four chemicals that make you feel happy and therefore less anxious; dopamine, serotonin, endorphin, and oxytocin. Each of these chemicals is released by your brain under different circumstances. To help your anxiety you have to release the correct chemical.

When you exercise, your body releases endorphins. This is the chemical that makes you not feel pain when you have pain. It also is the chemical makes you experience joy and a feeling of well being. So that would be natural treatment number one. You don’t have to run marathons, even simple exercises in your home will do – with or without a machine.

You should also learn the benefits of meditation. What’s great about it is that you can do it anywhere. There are no gadgets to buy it is just you and your lungs. You can mediate if you are having trouble concentrating or if you are simply nervous. You can probably learn from a YouTube video.