ITS NOT YOUR FAULT

Hi Everyone, my subject today is DON'T BLAME YOURSELF. There is a answer for your anxiety and panic just believe you will find it someday. I knew what I had was not something I did to myself as I was led to believe. The medical society in general wants you to believe that cancer is your fault, high blood pressure is your fault, diabetes is your fault. At least the type 2. If they aren't blaming you for what you have their blaming your relatives. You fill out the form in the doctors office and there it is. Do you or any of your relatives have this. Yes there are some thing that are hereditary but not everything.
I had a good friend once whose mother had diabetes. My friend went to the doctor one day for some routine matter and the doctor told her she must have diabetes, the medicine he gave her shut down her kidneys and she died. I know this is extreme but you get the idea.

What I am getting at here is nobody wants anxiety and panic so instead of finding a way to live with it why not just try and find a way to get rid of it. Wouldn't that be more productive. Baby Steps should only be used if you are in a field full of cows. You get my drift.

So what's the point of this conversation? I want you to take the hyperphoria test to the right and grade yourself and start on your recovery. Also read the posts here so you can be encouraged. Yes you need encouragement even if your, your own cheerleader.

Hugs, Yolanda

BLOG RESPONSE ABOUT EYES

Hi everyone, I thought you might enjoy this response about hyperphoria.

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Iseult commented on The difference between sympathy and empathy. in response to jaanderson2112: (Serious discussion) Despite having the disorder for 11 years, what I am discovering about agoraphobia is that people who have it want others to understand and sympathize with their condition.  I understand it, but I don’t sympathize. I empathize. I know exactly what kind of fear an agoraphobic has about going outside or being around […] It’s been suspected for many years that agoraphobia has a physical basis of one sort or another, and it’s interesting that research has uncovered the fact that many sufferers have a weak vestibular function which means they rely more on visual clues that other people. This can lead to them feeling disorientated when in crowded places where visual clues are too many, or in open spaces where visual clues are too few. All agoraphobic people know the feeling of dizziness and loss of balance that can occur in these places, so it’s hardly surprising they avoid them. I read more than 20 years ago how research had shown a link between agoraphobia and clumsiness, motion sickness and bad balance, and how special exercises were being developed to help address the problems. I didn’t follow up the research so don’t know whether success was achieved or not. The vision theory that Yolanda talks about is very interesting, and seems perhaps to tie in with the other physical theories of this so-called phobia. It follows that if your eyes don’t work properly, if you have to struggle to see properly, that your balance will inevitably suffer, that you’ll feel dizzy and disorientated, especially in crowded places where people are moving all around you. In fact, the theory that I read about all those years ago mentioned how people with agoraphobia seem to be extra aware of movement that’s happening around them, their eyes seem to work in a different way from those of other people, and the result is dizziness. Again, this ties in very neatly with the weak vestibular function theory which makes mention of the agoraphobic person’s reliance on visual clues and how overwhelming this can be in crowded places. One thing is certain – the vast majority of people with agoraphobia aren’t causing their own illness, they have a weakness somewhere in their physical makeup that makes being surrounded by movement very difficult for them. Their physical problem(s) cause the dizziness and subsequent feelings of disorientation and fear, and it’s easy to understand their reluctance to put themselves back into a situation where they know these feelings will occur again. A few people may not have a physical problem, or perhaps have a minor one that they can compensate for in other ways, but this won’t work for most sufferers which is most likely why agoraphobia is so difficult to cure. I’m pleased that research into the physical cause(a) of agoraphobia is going ahead, though obviously not at a fast enough speed for those who suffer from the illness. It’s good to know that finally this horrible condition is being taken seriously, rather than being dismissed as ‘all in the head’

HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES

Guess what! Today is the day you learn to make homemade egg noodles.

Essential ingredients

Unbleached flour
eggs
salt
olive oil


Get out your food processor and put in 1 cup of flour. Depending on the size of the processor it will only handle 3 cups of flour. Next add some salt about 1 tsp. In a  one cup measuring cup put one egg and about 1 tbl. olive oil and about 3 tbl. of water. Turn on the food processor and pour the liquid down the funnel into the flour while the processor is going. Pulsing is best, about 1 minute. If it doesn't look wet enough add more water a little at a time till all is moist. Shouldn't be real wet.

Knead it a bit and wrap in plastic let rest in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour. The best thing for rolling this out would be those little pasta machines but if you don't have one just flour your counter really well and roll with pie roller until really thin. Cut into strips with a pizza cutter.

You could also just pull off pieces of the dough and drop in hot liquid for little dumplings.



Click on the hyperphoria test on the right and grade your self. Anxiety and panic can be taken away with just a pair of prism glasses. It's that easy go to www.vsofm.com and get all the information.

Talk to you soon, hugs Yolanda

EYE DOCTORS IN YOUR AREA.

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A PEEK AT A PAGE IN MY BOOK

My world started to shrink. I would always pick my sister up every Friday and we would go grocery shopping.  She couldn't drive at this time. But now I would go into the store and everything bothered me. The lights were too bright, and the noise was magnified. The noise of the carts going up and down and in and out was so loud. The doors closing and opening was deafening. Shopping was out for me. Frankie began going shopping with my sister every Friday, for the next five years. This drove me into a feeling of helplessness. Driving was also over. Sitting in a car with someone else driving was just as bad. I had loved driving so this was hard to take. When we would go down to Spring Valley I had to pray all the way down and all the way back, it was the only way I could get there. While there, I drank to be able to stay there. That part was kind of easy because my uncle Joe liked to drink and my husband liked to drink, so I fit right in. Except if it was ten o'clock in the morning my uncle frowned on that. I really don't like drinking, I just like the relaxed feeling I get from it. We would drink and play cards and smoke most of the night.

I functioned as a wife and mother in most of my everyday life. I kept the house clean, the kids were taken care of and the meals were cooked. Before all of this happened I was taking Robyn to ballet lessons but I had to take her out of the classes, because I could no longer drive her there. It was things like that, that made me depressed. My neighbor lived about one hundred feet from my back door and I couldn't even walk that distance to talk to her, it was too far. She had five kids and thankfully didn't have time to talk to me anyway. I couldn't walk half a block from my house. The minute I got from the safety of my house I got dizzy and shaky. When in the house I couldn't take the kids being around me as that would set me into a fit. All of this was very hard to explain. My illness was all I could think about or talk about until my relatives started to get tired of hearing it. They suggested everything under the sun but to no avail. I knew they didn't have a clue to what was going on with me. Frankie didn't know either. He tried but there was no reason for any of this, so it was finally chalked up to some sort of mental condition. I believed it too.

This was taken from my book. "My Silent Disability" it can be bought at Amazon.

VERTICAL HETEROPHORIA OR VH, WHAT IS IT?

The most common cause of Vertical Heterophoria is congenital (ie- you are born with it). The symmetry of the shape of your face and the location of your eye sockets, and the symmetry between the eye muscles and their innervation is determined by the time you are born. These people usually become symptomatic with VH by the age of 40, though there are some who become symptomatic at an earlier age, some as early as 4 years old.

The second most common cause of VH is Acquired Brain Injury, of which Traumatic Brain Injury is by far the most frequent reason. TBI's most often occur from Motor Vehicle Accidents, but can also be caused by sports injuries and combat injuries (explosions from bombs and IEDs.

These conditions can in most cases be relieved by prism glasses.

Go to www.vsofm.com  for more information on how to deal with these problems.

Remember it could be your eyes.

Hugs, Yolanda

OUR EYES CONTROL OUR BODIES, DID YOU KNOW THAT?

Our eyes are used all the time and are connected to many of our body's other systems. If your eyes hurt, sometimes it can cause headaches, which can bring on a sense of dizziness or anxiety, which can in turn cause one to feel nauseous. It's important for people to understand that the body is really one unit and it's all connected to itself.
This could all be caused by a little known condition called
VH or Vertical Heterophoria. This is a visual condition where there is a slight vertical image misalignment which causes headaches, dizziness, anxiety, neck pain and reading difficulties. This condition can be helped with prism eyeglass lenses that realign the images, resulting (on average) in an 80% reduction of symptoms. This is achieved by putting very small units of prism in your glasses until the symptoms leave.

Are you a candidate for Vertical Heterophoria? Take the test on the right and grade yourself, then visit www.vsofm.com for more help.

Rember its in your eyes not in your head. Hugs, Yolanda