Anxiety Attack Symptoms

November 3, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Coping and Overcoming Anxiety 

There are many people in the world who suffer from some form of anxiety and for these people these anxiety attacks may be mild or they could be very severe. While there are many ways of treating anxiety attacks, it’s first important to identify what your anxiety attack symptoms are.

There are the physical symptoms of anxiety attacks that manifest themselves in the form of headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, tingling, pale complexion, numbness, difficulty in breathing, and sensations of tightness in the chest, neck, shoulders and or hands. These reactions are the body’s fight-or-flight reaction which involves the hormones, muscles and the heart.

The behavioral anxiety attack symptoms include pacing, trembling, general restlessness, hyperventilation, pressured speech, wringing of the hands, and even finger tapping. Then the cognitive anxiety attack symptoms include recurrent or obsessive thoughts, feelings of doom, and morbid thoughts of death, confusion or the inability to concentrate.

The emotional anxiety attack symptoms can include feelings of tension or nervousness, feeling agitated, overwrought, and feelings of unreality, panic, or even terror. Then there are also the anxiety attack symptoms where the person’s brain puts up a defense mechanism against the anxiety attacks.

Feelings of depression can also occur because of this excessive stress that we need to cope with. While there are therapies and medications that can deal with full blown anxiety disorders, you might want to practice a few techniques for coping with anxiety and stress.

These psychological defenses include repressing anxious thoughts or ideas out of the conscious awareness. Another anxiety attack symptom is where the sufferer will transfer the source of their anxiety to an object or an event. Phobias are an example of this anxiety attack transference. Then there are the times that a person who suffers from anxiety attacks will rationalize their anxious feelings by claiming that ordinary people would feel the same way were they placed in the exact situation.

The other method that the brain will use as a defense against anxiety attacks manifests itself in the form of physical complaints and illnesses. In this case the anxiety attack symptoms involve recurrent headaches, an upset stomach, and muscle and joint pains.

Delusions are one other way of the brain trying to defend the sufferer from the anxiety attacks. For these anxiety attack symptoms the person can formulate conspiracy theories or other similar scenarios. This gives the person an emotional outlet for their feelings of anxiety.

It doesn’t really matter what form these symptoms show themselves in. What’s really important is once you identify that these are signs of anxiety attacks that you seek and receive help and treatment for this condition. By catching these anxiety attack symptoms early you have a chance to stop it progressing to a more severe condition like agoraphobia where you may become housebound due to your excessive anxiety attacks. So don’t delay if you feel that you suffer from anxiety attack symptoms, go see a qualified medical practitioner as soon as possible and get the proper help.

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What are panic attacks?

July 21, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Mental Health 

While you’re anxious you feel awful feelings and strain. Additionally you could as well have one or more unpleasant physical symptoms. For example. a fast heart rate, trembling, feeling sick, agitating (shudder), perspiring, dry mouth, chest pain, headaches, a ‘knot in the stomach’, fast catching one’s breath. These are some of the symptoms but not all.

Some but not all the symptoms can include the following:

* Hammering Heart / High Heart Rate

* Sweating / Sweaty Palms

* Shaking

* Feelings of breathlessness

* Dry throat

* Chest pain or tight chest

* Nausea or abdominal distress or churning stomach

* Feeling giddy, unsteady, light-headed, or faint

* Feelings of unreality or being isolated from oneself

* Fear of losing control or becoming brainsick

* Fear of death

* Numbness or tingling sensations

* Chills or hot flushes

The grounds why everything seems to break down when you are attempting to cure panic attacks are because there are a handful of deep-seated feelings you have about your problems that are merely plain assumed.

These beliefs are so potent that they preclude any advancement being made, even when you’re executing everything else correctly.

These belief are not always accurate because when most anxiety suffers are asked then tell you that if they new the correct way to think and control there anxiety they would not have suffered so much.

To think that anxiety is a disease or unwellness can set the anxiety sufferer back ten fold. This ongoing belief will never help as if it is a disease then they may think that medication is needed rather than other methods.

What needs to be realised is that people who suffer from anxiety disorders or panic attacks need to realise early on that there problem is not a medical or physical problem but merely an addiction of ones beliefs and habits

When I was addicted to anxiety I had most of the aforementioned symptoms and I was addicted to the way anxiety and panic attacks made me feel, I could not believe this when someone qualified assured me, but as I learnt more about dependences / addictions it came apparent that all I was doing was just following and becoming addicted to the same habits. Now that I am cured from my panic attacks and anxiety disorders this looking backward this was all a bit of a shock.

Before fixing myself I was addicted to constantly checking myself, this means checking if I had anything on my face or shirt. This is what anxiety sufferers tend to do most days, especially out in public. Also I would perpetually ascertaining your pulse rate, your heart rate, feeling for lumps and bumps, and so forth. And perpetually inquiring myself if I was feeling apprehensive, or feeling close to a panic attack.

I was dependant on all that stuff – addicted and it became an uncontrolled bad habit.

When I recognised this, I began reading articles/books, basically anything I could get my hands on regarding subject’s dependency / bad habits. After a enough reading I arrived at some unbelievable discoveries. The more I understand about dependency, the further I actualised it was a problem I was having.

By: Anxiety Disordergo (Free Download Anxiety Treatment eBook)

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So my suggestion to anyone, if you would like to remedy panic attacks, bad habits and dependency as I did, is to check into some books on dependency and practice what you learn. If it does work as well as it did with me, in the long term you will be very glad you did. Good luck !If you want more information about panic attacks and Anxiety Disorder ,visit http://www.anxietydisordergo.com.au


Overcoming Anxiety – How Hard Is The Road To Permanently Overcoming Anxiety?

As days get tough and we keep struggling to stay above water in this economic storm there may be some people that will find themselves overwhelmed by anxiety. For many people this is only a momentary situation the comes and goes depending on the situations they are confronted from day to day. But there are other persons that won’t get rid of anxiety as easily once it has arrived to their lives and suddenly they start experiencing the sensation that they can’t stop the anxious feelings anymore and they develop and anxiety sickness.

Some of the symptoms of this sickness are: Feelings of unreality, muscular tension that won’t go away, nausea, sweating, fear of becoming seriously ill, recurrent headaches, sleepiness, among others. These are not nice feeling for the body and the person suffering from them seems to be living in a parallel world with a constant suffering present in his/her daily life; even affecting their motivation and productivity at work or other regular activities that now seem to be a hard thing to do.

Many of the people affected by anxiety may be tempted to believe that this is a very complicated state of their minds and that they will need the help of an expensive medical specialist so they can overcome this condition and recover their normal life; and some may even think that it’s something else in their bodies that is affecting their life. But in order to cure anxiety things don’t need to be so complicated really. Anxiety can be overcome and it doesn’t have to be so expensive, neither a long (perhaps painful) process until you see the light.

All what you need to fix is in your mind and how you approach the daily obstacles life puts along the road. Life is not easy but it doesn’t have to be a pain.

By: N. Young (Download Natural Treatment for Anxiety Now!)

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