We all cant possibly know what anxiety feels like.

Most of the patients share their experience as they say it stops you cold. It is the most wrenching, awful feeling ever. Its just like a distilled awfulness. An anxiety attack when aroused can leave a normal person perspire, cause their heart to race and can make their body non-responsive and immobile like a frozen ice cube. In this situation it is always hard to get help. As we are well aware of the fact that our brain is the control centre of the body and if there is any disturbance or imbalance in the levels of neurotransmitters of the brain the whole body gets affected. The effect is not physical but its only restricted and related to psyche. The only way which is quite appropriate and healthy to deal with mental illness is the presence of support groups along with the treatment for any mental disorders, specifically, Anxiety. WHAT IS A GROUP THERAPY OR A SUPPORT GROUP? Group therapy or the support groups are the socio cultural approaches of the therapy. It views the individual as part of a larger system of relationships influenced by social forces and culture. A group therapy permits a patient to work out their problems in presence of the others, observe how other people react to their behavior and try out new ways of responding when old ones proved unsatisfactory. There are many emotional problems involving difficulties in relating to other including feeling of isolation, rejection, loneliness and an inability to form a meaningful relationship, but when many patients having the same problem discuss them with each other, they feel relaxed and a bit satisfied, thinking over the fact that they are not only or alone in this world to face such a problem and there are many others who are having the same issues. Group therapy, as the name implies, is a type of psychological therapy that is conducted within a group of people, rather than one on one session as in psychiatry. Group therapy is a common concept and has been used widely in variety of settings in foreign countries, like in hospital wards and out-patient psychiatric clinics, with parents of the disturbed children and with the teenagers in correctional institutions. Typically a group is comprised of five to six members who have the similar problems. The therapist remains in the background, inactive, observing and allowing members to exchange experiences, comment on one anothers behavior and discuss their own problems as well as others. however, in some groups, the therapist is quite active for example in a group of people sharing same kind of fear or phobias ( fear of flying, heights, anxiety about tests) or in the cases when they meet up with the patients who are shy, silent, inexpressive and introvert to express their feelings and discussing their problems. Through this therapy, a single therapist can help and deal with several patients at once. An individual can thus derive support and comfort by observing that the others have similar perhaps more severe problems than theirs, when the person realizes that his/her problem is not as big as others, this is often a revelation and a huge relief to that person and its probably the biggest advantage of the group therapy. A person can learn vicariously by watching how other behave and can explore attitudes and reactions by interacting with a variety of people not just with the therapist only. Groups are particularly effective when they give participants