So what’s the connection between anxiety and putrid body odor? Could be many things that cause the body odor like stinky underarm bacteria – lack of showering, too much garlic and curry, out of control diabetes, kidney dysfunction, or…. protein indigestion. The latter was my case, some of it linking back to food allergies.

Now that the clocks have been turned back the days feel very short.  Darkness will fall earlier everyday until December 21st, then the days start getting longer.  This time of year many of us (including myself) start to feel the winter blues.  The past few years I have made a few changes to help me from feeling the effects of SAD (seasonal affective disorder).   Here are a couple of tips as part of my anxiety therapy!

Why is it that when we know our limit on something and if we go beyond that, we’ll feel like “junk”?  For example, I experience many food sensitivities – gluten, diary, caffeine, sugar, nightshades, soy, and corn. Here’s the situation: because my body prefers that I do not eat the aforementioned items I can indulge in a TINY bit of dark chocolate.  Key word: TINY. Any more than that it is the OPPOSITE of anxiety therapy! It is an anxiety cause.

Panic attacks were once nature’s way of keeping a person alive in a very dangerous situation. The surge of adrenaline pumped through the body during an attack allowed early man to outrun deadly predators, or claw themselves out from an avalanche of heavy debris. Ancient man may have only experienced the gut wrenching terror of a panic attack once, if ever, in his lifetime. Today, there are people who have experienced repeated panic attacks who are living half lives as a result.

One of the reasons mainstream anxiety therapy has been so unsuccessful for many is because anxiety manifests itself so differently in different people. One person may experience a mild tightening of the chest, increased heart and breathing rate and a slight flush just before stepping onto a stage to make a public speech. Another may experience the sudden onset of a full-blown panic attack that includes profuse sweating, shortness of breath and an intense headache at the thought of speaking to a single person they don't know at a small party.