5 Simple Ways to Naturally Boost Your Serotonin

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Twice in my life my anxiety got so bad that I took antidepressants.

They didn’t help.

They made things worse by adding horrible side effects to my anxiety. And along with the side effects came a whole new anxiety about being hooked on pills.

Both times I was on antidepressants I spent most of my time thinking about how to get off them.

That’s what got me looking into natural ways to increase serotonin.

Antidepressants work by helping your brain “recycle” your serotonin, which effectively increases the amount of serotonin in your system. The more serotonin you have in your system the less anxiety you’ll feel.

I knew when I stopped taking the pills my serotonin levels would crash while my body adjusted, which would mean increased anxiety.

It seemed like a good idea to do whatever I could to naturally increase my serotonin levels. That would make the withdrawal of the antidepressants easier to handle.

To help me do that I read every book and scientific study I could find on the subject of serotonin.

What follows in this post is the best stuff I learned. More specifically, what follows are the 5 best ways to naturally increase your serotonin.

Use the ideas that follow. See what they do for you. Each idea has the potential to dramatically increase your serotonin levels, and the more serotonin you have the less anxiety you should feel.

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Everything You Need to Know About Throat Problems Caused by Anxiety

post written by Alex Taylor

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Anxiety can cause physical symptoms in just about any area of your body. But the throat seems to be a hotspot.

There are multiple throat problems that can occur as a direct result of anxiety. In this post, I’m going to focus on the 3 most common ones.

During my time with anxiety I experienced each of these 3 throat problems, and that means I had the chance to learn a lot about them.

In this post I’ll share everything I learned. I’m hoping this information will help you with your own anxiety-related throat problems.

Since there are multiple throat problems that your anxiety can cause it’ll be best if we take a look at them one at a time.

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Everything You Need to Know About Nausea Caused by Anxiety

post written by Alex Taylor

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Nausea is an extremely common physical symptom of anxiety, and it’s one you’ve almost certainly experienced yourself.

Although nausea isn’t as unpleasant as some of the other physical symptoms your anxiety may cause, it can still negatively impact your quality of life.

If you feel sick all the time you’ll avoid doing things, you’ll avoid foods you like, and you’ll probably worry that something serious is making you feel unwell.

That’s the way nausea affected me, and I’m guessing that’s how it’s affecting you too.

As with all physical symptoms of anxiety, the best way to deal with nausea is to learn more about it.

If you find out why it happens, how it feels, and what you can do to stop it, nausea will become much less of a problem in your life.

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9 Quick Actions You Can Take to Reduce Anxiety

post written by Alex Taylor

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Take a look at any of the advice you can find on helping your anxiety. Books, websites, CDs, audio programs. Everything you can find.

Look at it all and see if you can find any advice you can use to immediately improve your anxiety.

You’ll struggle to find anything.

Most advice given on anxiety is useless. It’s rehashed, it’s old, it’s not tested in the real world. It’s totally unusable. Just empty words.

That’s why I’m writing this post.

You’re about to learn 9 quick actions that you can take right now, today, to reduce your anxiety.

Most of these actions are backed up by real-world studies carried out on people with anxiety.

Those that aren’t backed up by studies are taken directly from my own experience, or from the experiences of other people I’ve met who’ve overcome their anxiety.

In other words, these 9 quick actions work.

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What to Do When You Have a Panic Attack

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When you have a panic attack, do you know what to do? Or do you just suffer the attack and wait for it to pass?

Not knowing what to do makes the attack much worse. It adds uncertainty and a feeling of helplessness to an already horrible situation, often increasing the severity of the attack and causing it to last longer.

But there are things you can do when you have a panic attack. Simple things. Things that make the attack less severe. Things that make it stop altogether.

By knowing in advance what you need to do when you have a panic attack, it’ll mean the next time an attack strikes you won’t have to think (it’s hard to think when you’re panicking). Instead, you can just act.

In this post, I’ll share the 3 most important things you need to do anytime you have a panic attack. Let me talk you through these 3 things one at a time.

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