Anxiety and Panic Attacks
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What is a panic attack?
A panic attack is a sudden onset of intense anxiety or terror without any obvious threat. It is a misfiring of the so called “fight flight or freeze” adrenalin reaction.
Typical symptoms of Panic Attacks
Panic attacks can include usually four or more of the following:
- Pounding heart
- Sweating
- Shaking
- Shortness of breath which can include:
- Feeling of choking
- Chest pain
- Nausea/ tummy cramps
- Feeling dizzy or unsteady
- An out of body or unreal feeling
- Shivers or hot flushes
- Pins and needles
Panics can be full blown or milder “near” panics and they usually build to a crescendo in 10 minutes. Often the person understandably makes a catastrophic interpretation of what’s happening
- “I feel dizzy - I will faint”
- “I feel like I’m not really here - I’m going mad”
- “I can’t breathe properly - I’m going to suffocate”
Panics burn out after several minutes but lingering effects may last hours.
What is panic disorder?
Panic Disorder may be diagnosed when there are recurrent panics that disrupt a person’s life. Once someone has one they understandably fear another will happen which can often generate new episodes.
Desmond Gahan
Desmond Gahan BA., (Dip. Applied Psychology) is the author and publisher of many non fiction books. His special area is psychology and psychopathology. He lives in Dublin Ireland.
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Anxiety and Panic Attacks - Desmond Gahan
Anxiety—What Is It?
Your heart is pounding fast and you are feeling dizzy. It seems as though you have to sit down in order for you not to fall. You are having trouble catching your breath. You are experiencing a numbing feeling in your hands and feet.
There is a tightening pressure in your chest area. You think you may be on the verge of a heart attack. You think something is really wrong with you; however, you are far from dying.
Anxiety is a mental disorder in which a person fears just about anything and they think every outcome will turn out for the worst. This fear is frightening because it is so intense and they always fear that someone is after them.
If you have any type of disorder that is associated with anxiety, then your mind will always be focused on being scared for no reason. You will always feel that there is no solution to your unfounded fear and that there is no way out.
You feel paralyzed as though you can’t do anything. Basically, you are frozen with fear. This disorder can attack at any time.
Anxiety disorder is more than just one action. Anxiety disorder has different sub-disorders that can fit under this. For instance, there are panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder and others that are related to the anxiety disorder family.
There are many people all over that suffer from anxiety attacks. If you are not afflicted with them, you may know someone who is. If it is you, you need to know how to help yourself. If it’s someone else, you need to know how to help them. You will have to be understanding and help them to get the treatment and support that they need to combat this condition.
Causes of Anxiety
There is no one thing that causes this disorder and those that are related to it. You may think that there are certain things that trigger it. Well, there could be and then again, it may be something that just happens. It all depends on how it is perceived.
Those that the anxiety attacks or related disorders may have one attack. Then they may go back to the scene where the initial one took place and have another one. They are reminded of what happened before. They will feel bad and end up having another one without thinking about it. It seems like a constant cycle of intense fear. Then they feel that they will have more attacks.
Believe it or not, it’s all in the mind. If you constantly fear and expect to have an anxiety attack or something related to it, then it will happen. The thing about this is people that experience these attacks resent having to hear that it’s all in the mind. They feel that people are brushing this off as something that you can get over.
The feeling of anxiety comes from your brain. According to studies that deal with this, there are at least two areas of your brain that help to trigger the sense of fear and anxiety in your mind. It causes your brain to have a defense mechanism and then you react.
However, there can be situations that you may think cause anxiety and related attacks. Some people have so much stress nowadays. It can come from office politics, overwhelming debt, family