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Panic attacks, also known as anxiety attacks are a moment that suddenly occurs causing a period of intense fear. The symptoms a sufferer can feel vary from nausea, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, sensation’s of choking and heart palpitations. Although attacks come suddenly, seemingly unprovoked they can often be triggered by phobias.

Panic attacks not only have physical symptoms, they also cause psychological distress that can be emotionally draining. The feelings a person has when suffering a panic attack can go as far as a fear of dying and a strong urge to escape the situation or place they are when the attack happens.

Am I Alone

Many sufferers feel alone and dont even tell their friends or family what they are feeling. It is reported that 1 in 60 people in the U.S will have a panic attack in their lifetime, that’s roughly 6 million people.

Panic disorder has been traced in family history but other factors do have an important part, such as your environment and stress.

Support

Support from family and friends can play a pivotal role in speeding up recovery times. If a friend or family member is there at the time of an attack, having knowledge of the issue could help them dispel your fears.

Methods in treating the symptoms include writing day by day about your feelings and how you deal with them. Relaxing techniques such as breathing exercises, yoga and physical exercise can also help. All of these ideas to help support you are stress management skills that can help you through those difficult moments.

Remember you are not alone, many people understand the feelings you are going through and there is a lot of support out there to help you.

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Over compulsive disorder affects people in many different ways - at least 2% of the population are being driven to despair trying to cope with this disorder. The symptoms differ for each individual - some more so than others where severity of the condition has encouraged a patient to become a hostage to their own thoughts.

No Matter how rebellious a sufferer is when trying to fight and control their actions and thoughts - they sometimes find it easier to let those intrusive obscene thoughts continue and suffer in silence. Repetitive compulsions have to be carried out by a sufferer to find solace.

Daily duties and rituals performed by an over compulsive disorder sufferer is often seen by the outsider as odd. Strange behaviour patterns from a person suffering from OCD will never be understood by the sane outsider as they see themselves next to an oddball.
Behaviour patterns of an obsessive-compulsive disorder victim can cause so much havoc and misery in that person`s life - to an extent when they feel they can not go on and in some cases that has been the case where suicide was the only way out.

Over compulsive disorder can instigate a flare up of depression where sufferers experience anxious moments if their compulsions or repetitive actions are prevented from being performed. When OCD begins to meddle with your everyday activities then it is time to seek help because it is now turning serious affecting how you live your life.

Doctors dedicated to this mind meddling disorder once believed that OCD was a condition rarely heard of - but in fact it is now becoming more common than other mind or mental ailments - namely bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. It is said that in the US there are over 3 million people suffering from over-compulsive disorder. Parents should be aware that children can also be affected by OCD so if you notice any unusual change in your child`s ways then talk to a doctor. This disorder is known to stem from childhood.

Do not be alarmed at the fact that there is no known cure for this complaint because there are remedies to help control the symptoms that are slowly tearing your world apart. Treatment is available also medical advice to treat your nonsensical behaviours - but as senseless as these behaviours may seem it is still a difficult task to liberate your self from them alone.

Unwanted behaviours can be sedated and calmed with the right medicinal potions or therapy.
Medical staff show uncertainty to the reasons behind and exact cause of OCD. Research says the cause is biological, while others beg to differ believing this disorder is a learned behaviour. Facts state that the chances are increased of you developing over compulsive disorder if a close relative or family member be a victim. However, it has not been proven or identified by researchers that genes are guilty to this being a hand me down illness.

Consult your doctor if you or a member of the family is showing signs of this disorder or any other illness - by not talking to someone can only add more pain and suffering.

Please don’t suffer in silence, if your symptoms are of a mild form - nip it in the bud now http://www.overcompulsivedisorder.com Free up the mind from stress http://www.want2yoga.com

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In our last article we talked about how to heal your self image. We talked about exploring your identity in the spiritual sense and realizing that the society in which we have been born, drafted and woven, has created its own truths that we have bought into. It reminded us that the only real way to understand who we were was to take back our power, and our right, to decide what really had worth and value in our own lives. It also called us to celebrate the miracle that we are. We spoke of having a third session on working on the self image. Instead we will go straight to working improving on your social life along with building a stronger self image.

The truth is that we can strengthen your self image by partaking of our rights to choose our associates. Of course there are times when we can’t choose our associates. We can’t choose our families and sometimes, if our family is dysfunctional, it is can be the cause for any feeling of hopelessness that we might have. We can’t choose the people with which we work, sometimes anyway, but we can choose the religion that we believe in and close friends.

If you have been doing any of the previous exercises you may realize that you are beginning to change. As you change the system around you is probably doing all that it can to stop you from changing. People are addressing you and treating you as the person you used to be. They are resistant to you changing. Take a good look at all of your friends and family members. Note your religious institution, if you have one, and how it functions. If you find that any of your friends, family members, or your religious institution is contributing to your feeling of hopelessness and depression, put distance between you and them.

I’m not saying to cut your friends and family off completely, what I am saying, however, is that you don’t need to invest much time in the ones who are destroying you. Seek out friends who care about you and support you. Whether they are the glamorous popular people, or people that others can’t stand, if they support you become friends with them. Most of the time we pass by many people who could be close friends. We have the media image in our heads of what a person should be. We are persecuted because we are not that person, but at the same time we persecute others because they are not that person and bypass them as friends. These people could be the best friends that we have.

If your family is dysfunctional choose good friends and look to them for support. You can also work to find clubs or groups with similar interests as yours. You can do this through your school, or through religious organizations. Find the ones that support you most and invest energy into being with them. Let the others go. The last thing to do, which may be hard for many of you to hear, is to look at your religion. If it makes you feel bad, guilty or miserable all the time, even if you are doing all they say you should to the best of your ability, dump it.

A religion is supposed to give you wings to fly, not push your face down in the dump. If you need to find another religious group, look for another congregation, or another group who meditates or whatever, if you group is a downer. There are many churches that call themselves liberal churches. They seek to live the life that their prophets put forward without trying to take on the burdens that men have added to the simple truths of the religion. They don’t put down, castigate and they are not overly exclusive. If you can find one of these groups with solid footing, not one that throws anyone out or castigates one who questions their beliefs (such an organization is a cult), become part of that group.

Have as many friends that you can from diverse places so you don’t get dependent on any one group to supply activities and friendships for you and you will find more joy in your life. The main things is to chose your friends well.

Let us go over what we have discussed in this journal entry. First, If your family is dysfunctional and keeps putting you down and keeping you depressed, be friendly to them, but don’t depend on them for support. Cut them off and seek support elsewhere. Secondly, select healthy friends who will support you in your efforts. These friends can include people with like interests from clubs, from the neighborhood, from religious institutions, or anywhere else. When you choose them make sure that you choose them because of the condition of their hearts, not because they look like the media image of what a good person should be. Thirdly, find some spiritual home, even if it is meditating in your own room. If you are involved in a congregation or religion that keeps you depressed, get rid of it and replace it with a community that is both freeing and healing for you. Have several friends from diverse places so you won’t be dependent on any one group or institution.

As you do these things your self esteem will grow. Your awareness of yourself and other people will and you will begin to see the vastness of the world and all of the opportunities that present themselves before you.

In the next article we will make suggestions on how you can improve your social interactions with other people. We will explore how you can expand the behaviors that you want to keep, and how you can purposely let go of the ones that you don’t want anymore. If this is the first article you read please check out our Practical Spirituality Journal at www.dswellness.com.

Dr. J. W. Gilmore is a Writer, Spiritual Director, Anti-oppression Consultant and Wellness Consultant. He is a Certified Massage Therapist and Reflexologist, a Reiki Master Teacher, a Martial Arts Instructor and a Spiritual Coach living in Costa Rica. For more article like this or similar information visit: http://www.dswellness.com Look forward to our coming cyber education center course on how you can work to end oppression and its effects by applying the teachings from A Return to Being Human Religiously, written by Dr. John W. Gilmore, D. Min.
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Because two symptoms of depression are a feeling that the world is out to get you and anger, it is very easy to succumb to road rage. This is dangerous as it can lead to physical confrontation, as well as other dangerous actions. It is important to find ways to keep calm and maintain control when you don’t have the option of walking away.

The first thing to do is to slow down. When getting angry, the natural instinct is to speed up, but by doing that you are just going to instigate things. Slow down and let the problem move away from you. If that isn’t an option, then move your car around a little bit. Involve yourself in changing lanes or the radio. Keep your eyes on the road, but make an effort to not think about whatever is instigating you.

If all else fails, pull over. You can always do that, even if you are on a highway (go to the next exit or pull onto the shoulder if it is not for a while). Stop for a bit, and take some deep breaths. Review your meditation techniques and find a way to calm yourself down. Remember: the world is not out to get you, and whatever happened, it is not that important. Moving on from these incidents is the most important thing that you can do.

You can read more about depression at http://www.curemydepression.com

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Do you like the Sunny Days, aren’t they great? Did you know that in areas where it rains half the years or is mostly dark that people have severe depression? It is true, in fact there are more mental health problems in the Northern US States than in the sunny states. There are less suicides, depression and drug and alcohol abuse per capita. Did you know there are less stress related illnesses too? In fact it is so says a recent research study by a major University.

Many ancient cultures worshiped the Sun; Sun Worshipers. Indeed, it is amazing that such Sun worship was common around the globe and there are some Sun Worshipping Religions going on even today. Apparently from the all studies this seems to makes a lot of sense. Did you know the Sunny Florida, Arizona and Southern Nevada and Southern California have the highest rates of population growth?

Many people interviewed in Florida had lived in the Northeast and come to visit and decided to stay, actually purchasing a home during their visit. Others had come on a winter vacation to ditch the bad weather and decided to stay all winter. Many people “snowbirds” do this and it is very trendy indeed. Lately something new has happened and that is people come to visit and stay all year. Most are quite satisfied with their decision, well except this year due to the Hurricane Season. But they say; “that is the cost for living in the Sunny Paradise!” Think on this, because if you love the Sun there must be a good reason for it.

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This simple reminder is dedicated to all Webmasters (and Webslaves like me). Don’t sleep tonight without reading this. Find out why below…

Have you seen people cried out loud for help because they lost their websites?

I have seen this many times in several forums and have personally experienced the same not long ago. I am a living testimony on this one.

And so I cried out for “Help!” I lost my websites!”

But no one can help me… Sad but true…

I faced mounting problems that escalates each day as I am rebuilding my websites. Lost sales, lost customers, lost files and lost hairs (it’s very stressful you know).

If it did not happen to you just yet, good for you. Otherwise, you already know how painful it is to wake up in the morning just to see your website was wiped out on the face of the internet.

Scary eh?

Webmasters lose their websites for variety of reasons. This may be due to either one or the combination of the following:

1) Server hardware breakdowns or failures
2) Datacenter disasters (fires, electrical, etc)

3) Software updates and failures
4) Hacking and malicious intents
5) Transfer or server movement problems
6) Your webhost human errors
7) Your own human errors
Other accidents I might have missed

Except for your own mistakes (admit it, nobody’s perfect) from time to time, all the other reasons are beyond your control. And it’s not good news.

It’s a good thing that you NOW know that it’s not a question of “IF” it will happen to you. It’s just a matter of “WHEN” disaster will strike YOU.

- Are you ready for this?

- Can you deal with the consequences and trauma?

- Is your website insured if disaster falls today?

Luckily, most of us know the solution but we keep on ignoring this. Admit it. I know.

The only way to really have peace of mind is to do one simple thing… Just ONE simple thing…

Backup!

Backup!

Backup!

Most of us knew this all along but we don’t do it.

Are we crazy? Nope. We are just busy.

We are so busy online we don’t have time for this simple thing. No challenge eh?

But you see, this is your ONLY true insurance from the shaky internet platforms and uncontrollable mishaps.

You can’t just rely on someone to do this for you.

- Not with your web host.

- Not your programmer.

- Not your website designer.

- Not even your Mom!

YOU, the website owner should do this for yourself.

BACKUP. That simple.

I pray that you will not be stricken with this sad online tragedy. Because I really can’t help you even if you email me a million times for help.

Remember, accidents strike when you least expect it. (Or it will not be called accidents right?)

So don’t forget to BACKUP your websites from time to time. And your vital files in your computer too.

You’ll have peace of mind and I tell you, that’s a great and wonderful feeling.

Manny Jao II is self-taught webmaster whose aim is to improve the lives and working habits of other netrepreneurs just like him. He is the developer and owner of the first automatic backup software for CPanel-powered websites named CPSiteSaver which you can now download at http://www.cpsitesaver.com

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“I love your site and your Tourbus Newsletter! I would like to know how a virus propagates over a network? If you get a virus on one computer - do other users on the network have to do anything to get infected? Is there a good way to protect against this?”

Great question! There are several ways for a virus to spread from one computer to another. Let’s look at those, and ways to prevent the propagation of pestiferous programs.

Careful With That Paperclip…

The most common is via an email attachment. I’m not aware of any current exposures in popular email software that allow a virus to spread simply by opening or reading an email.

But plenty of people are still willing to open anything that pops into their inbox. Opening an attachment without verifying its contents with the sender is asking for trouble. Never run a program that you save to disk from an email attachment without anti-virus protection in place. The same goes for Word documents, which can have viruses in embedded macros.

Dubious Downloads

Another common way for a virus or spyware to spread is by piggybacking on other software that you download. If you just can’t resist the latest toolbar, file-sharing gizmo, coupon dispenser or email enhancer, you may be at risk. Often these and other downloads come with malware, free of charge. Running a good anti-spyware program will reduce your risk.

Just Click NO!

Ever been to a website and gotten one of those “Click here to install and run {Whatever}” popups? Just click NO! Unless you know for sure that you need to press OK (such as when downloading security updates from Microsoft) then treat these popups as threats to your computer.

Sometimes It’s NOT Nice to Share

If you are on a network, and you allow your hard drive to be shared (enabling other network users to read and write your files) then you are WIDE OPEN to the stupidity of the other users on the network. If any one of them got a virus, there’s nothing to prevent it from copying itself to your computer via the network share. Unless you absolutely have to share your hard disk, don’t. You can check to see if you have enabled sharing by right clicking on the drive icon in My Computer, then select Sharing.

The SneakerNet Menace

And don’t forget portable media, such as floppies, CDROMs, and those nifty little flash drives that connect to a USB port. Assume that any file you copy from external media could be infected. Keeping your anti-virus protection enabled and updated should protect you here.

BOB RANKIN… is a tech writer and computer programmer who enjoys exploring the Internet and sharing the fruit of his experience with others. His work has appeared in ComputerWorld, NetGuide, and NY Newsday. Bob is publisher of the Internet TOURBUS newsletter, author of several computer books, and creator of the http://LowfatLinux.com website. Visit Bob Rankin’s website for more helpful articles and free tech support.

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I am the victim of an internet scam. It is very hard to write that sentence, but it’s necessary in order to warn my fellow clowns, magicians and other entertainers, and to prevent them from being taken for $2,800.00 like I was. Here is what happened to me, and how you can avoid it.

I run the clown-ministry.com web site, and I perform as a clown at both ministry and secular events. Due to the popularity of the clown-ministry.com web site (do a search on Google .com for ‘clown’ and it’s the 7th site listed, for example) I’m easily found by people — for both good and bad reasons. For instance, last year my wife Ellen and I taught clowning for a week at the Seventh Day Adventists’ national Camporee — we’re not Adventists, and don’t know many people who are, but we were found by them & hired primarily due to the popularity of the web site. We’ve been invited to perform in clown at a conference in Canada, performed at company picnics, etc. well out of our neck of the wood, and so on. Please understand that this isn’t bragging; it’s setting the stage for what happened in the scam.

We were contacted via e-mail by someone purportedly from Cincinnati, Ohio, who wanted to fly my wife & I to Cincinnati to perform at a birthday party. Since we’d had similar things happen in the past, that didn’t set off any alarms in my head. In addition, I knew that there are entertainers such as Jennifer Lopez who will sing “Happy Birthday” at your party, for a fee of $50,000.00; I’m no J Lo, and my singing is atrocious, but I charge a lot less as well

I did an internet search on that person (I’m not using the name he gave, since there’s a criminal investigation as well as FBI investigation going on — no joke), and found someone by that name in Cincinnati, Ohio, a “regional celebrity” so to speak. So, it didn’t seem incredulous that he would have the money to hire us as well as pay round trip air fare. It’s now obvious that it was merely someone using that person’s name to “hook” us.

At that point, my wife & I were still inclined to think of this as a prank, but even so we replied to the email with a quotation for our services, politely and professionally. We were joking with each other that this had to be a prank; after all, why would someone hire us when there are hundreds of clowns in the Cincinnati area? Unless it was someone with money to burn who wanted to buy “bragging rights,” it made no sense. So we forgot about it, until the person replied back, hiring us.

We still considered it a joke, until we received a check in the mail, for $2,800.00. MUCH more that we had quoted our services for! We thought that, maybe, the excess was to pay for round trip air fare and accommodations, but even so that was far too much. We e-mailed the person back, explaining that we had received $2,800.00 via check. His response is what should have tipped us off to the scam.

He replied that, since he was out of the country on a business trip, he had his personal assistant send the checks out for the party, and the assistant had made a mistake, combining with our check one for $2,300.00 for the photographer from the United Kingdom that he was flying in to photograph the party. Would we be so kind as to send him those funds via Western Union?

Like an idiot, I said “yes.” The check had been deposited and cleared (I thought), and I didn’t want to hold onto money that didn’t belong to me. So, I went to the local Western Union office and sent $2,300.00 to an individual in the United Kingdom. This didn’t set off any red flags (although it should have) since it seemed like the type of silly mistake I’ve seen people do before. What happened next, though, set off every red flag in my head, and then some.

Days later, I received another email from the man supposedly from Cincinnati. According to him, his mother had an advanced form of lung cancer, and needed an immediate operation. He wanted me to send the remaining money to his mother’s doctor in Nigeria and he would reschedule the party later. When I heard the word ‘Nigeria’ I had icicles running up and down my spine. Nigeria is famous, in the internet world, for being home to the most prolific scam of all time. You’ve likely received spam email about it. In a nutshell, it involves the widow of some minister or rich person, who is trying to smuggle their immense fortune out of the country before it’s seized by her dead husband’s adversaries; in exchange for letting them use your bank account, they will give you (various amounts of money, if not enough to make you filthy rich, at least enough to make you dingy). Of course, no money comes out, but these people proceed to rob your bank account of every penny.

So, when I heard that, fear clutched at my heart. Besides, why would someone rich enough to hire me (and fly a photographer in from the UK) need my money? The answer is, he didn’t; he was just trying to bilk me of more money before his ruse was exposed.

You see, when I initially deposited the $2,800.00 check, it appeared to clear; it was then several more days before he requested the $2,300 to his photographer, and nearly a week (from the time I deposited the check) until I complied with that. 11 days after the check was initially deposited, it came back ‘funds denied.’ The bank then debited $2,800.00 from my checking account — which didn’t contain that much, of course. So, I’m out $2,800.00, the crook (or his accomplice in the UK) received $2,300.00. What’s the moral of the story?

The purpose of this is two-fold: to warn my fellow clowns, and to point out the red flags that I should have seen, and what I should have done.

1. Bogus email address: there are many ‘free’ email sites available, where anyone can set up a free email account. Spammers, and many others use these to hide behind. Never trust information coming from a ‘free’ account.
2. Depositing the check: I should have deposited the check, and then waited 2 weeks to ensure that it had cleared. I had seen people selling items on ebay.com who warn people paying by personal check that they would not ship items until 2 weeks after the check was deposited, just to prevent this problem. In my case, they used an internet service (qchex.com) instead of a personal check, but the same time period applies.
3. Sending money back: I should have offered to send the money back to the original person after 2 weeks, or destroyed the check and asked them to re-send the correct amount.
4. Nigeria!: need I say more? Sending money to Nigeria is a Bad Idea.

So, that’s where it lies. I’m out $2,800.00, and in danger of losing my house due to the actions of this criminal. Jesus Christ orders His followers to “pray for those who despitefully use you” (Matthew 5:44). It’s difficult, but I’m praying. Thank you for listening — be sure to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Tom Raymond, aka. Raynbow the magic clown, is a professional clown and underemployed computer geek, webmaster of http://www.clown-ministry.com/ the largest clown resource site on the web. His personal site can be found at http://www.clown-ministry.com/raynbow/

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