http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Steve+Baker Arts and Crafts Steve Baker Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=181392&ca=Arts+and+Crafts Discovered in the seventeenth century by an Englishman called George Ravenscroft, lead crystal production involves the adding of lead oxide powder into molten glass which, is then either blow molded or pressed into shape, depending on the manufacturer’s preference and the complexity of the finished... Self Help Steve Baker Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=180889&ca=Self+Help First of all, before we start to describe what the symptoms of anxiety are, let’s first establish what anxiety is and its purpose. Anxiety is a survival mechanism. It exists to remove any perceived danger from our environment by either fighting it or running away from it. A few thousand years ago, w... Self Help Steve Baker Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=175615&ca=Self+Help Phobia is a derivative of the Greek word “phobos”, meaning fear. It does seem however, to have two different definitions. Here are a couple of examples: a) an extremely intense and overwhelming sense of fear with regard to a specific stimulus or b) an intense dislike or hatred of something. Here are... Self Help Steve Baker Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=175219&ca=Self+Help I suffered with agoraphobia for more that twenty years. During that time I tried all sorts of treatments, some conventional, some not so, and nothing I did seemed to have any sort of positive effect upon my agoraphobia, panic disorder or anxiety disorder. In fact, some things made my condition worse... Self Help Steve Baker Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=175295&ca=Self+Help I was a panic attack and agoraphobia sufferer for over twenty years. During that time, having shared my life with this terrible twosome, I worked out a few ways of making my life more tolerable if I had to venture out into the big wide world. And I’ll share a couple of them with you here. One of the... Self Help Steve Baker Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173597&ca=Self+Help My first encounter with a panic attack came at the age of twenty-nine. From what I've learned from reading and by talking to other panic attack sufferers, this was later than usual. Most panic sufferers that I've spoken with or read about had their first panic attack either in their teens or early t... Self Help Steve Baker Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173599&ca=Self+Help There are two things that are apparent when you start to seek a definition for agoraphobia and that is that, depending on where you look, there is more than just one definition. If we take a look in a dictionary, we will find that the interpretation given there is similar to the following: a disease... Self Help Steve Baker Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173603&ca=Self+Help I seriously feel that if you’ve never been unfortunate enough to have experienced a panic attack then, it would be very difficult, if not impossible to realise just how overwhelmingly frightening they really are. On the other hand, if you have been in the unfortunate position of experiencing one fir... Self Help Steve Baker Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173606&ca=Self+Help Usually, the first person that most people would call if they were looking for a panic attack treatment would be their family doctor. I certainly did after encountering my first panic episode. However, back in the far distant days of 1985, much less was known about panic than is known today and ther... Self Help Steve Baker Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173643&ca=Self+Help Are panic disorder and panic attacks the same thing or are they two separate conditions? In other words, does someone who suffers from panic attacks automatically get labelled as having panic disorder? The short answer to that question is no. Someone who suffers from panic attacks doesn’t necessaril...