September 14, 2009
Understanding Anxiety And Panic Attacks
At times people feel anxiety. It's normal to be anxious over certain things, or feel a little nervous. Many people have trouble speaking in front of a crowd of people, and others may have anxiety being around strangers. These are normal feelings of anxiety, and is nothing to be concerned about.
But when anxiety escalate to a fear or nervousness beyond a level that you can control it turns into panic. This eventually leads to full-blown panic attacks, which can be debilitating if left untreated. These attacks can keep people from living their day to day lives.
When panic attacks happen you get a sudden feeling of extreme nervousness or fear. Your heart can start racing and you can start sweating profusely too. These are high level reactions that take your control away. The feeling of fear is most of the time way more than it should be according to the given situation.
Being overwhelmed or crippled by fear often can result in spinning out of control. If you can't handle the situation the panic can make you act irrationally. People with anxiety attacks usually will either lash out at people, or they hide away from people. In real severe cases of anxiety or panic attacks they have reported people deal with depression and may end in suicide.
People can fall into a vicious cycle. They being to be fearful of having another panic attack which in turn is the cause of the panic attack. People have this happen and life becomes dealing with living in fear. Fearful of even their normal daily routines. It's very dangerous if you get an attack while driving a car. It can be truly dangerous making you lose control and face an awful car wreck with awful consequences.
Other conditions could cause panic attacks. If you already suffer from depression you are at a higher risk for these attacks. If you are depressed and think life is at ti's worse, you may start to get anxiety or panic over life.
Alcoholics often don't think with a clear head and may not have to worry about their fears taking over. Panic may set in if you are an alcoholic. If you abuse drugs, your mind is probably in an altered state, and in this frame of mind nobody can make rational choices.
Knowing what anxiety's symptoms are will help you to know if you suffer from this condition. Luckily symptoms usually only last for about 10 minutes. Even within 10 minutes, you can totally lose control.
Short breathing, heart pounding, your thoughts are racing, and you start to get chest pain due to an extreme feeling of fear. Your crippled with fear. Some people have complained that they have a feeling that they are being smothered, choking, etc. Fainting and dizziness are common and may occur. You may start to shake and tremble as the fear grips you and overwhelms you.
Numbness, toes tingling, fingers numb or tingling, chills, hot flashes, sweating, or nausea are other signs of panic attacks, and when you feel these, you can start thinking that you want to die or lose control.
Fairly common, Panic attacks occur in about 2.4 million of the adults in America. Often people start getting these attacks as a late teenager, beginning of adulthood. Women are at a higher rate of getting these attacks over men. If you currently suffer from panic or anxiety, seek out the proper treatment so you can get relief and live a normal life.
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Filed under About Anxiety by Gordon Dalwood














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