Fight or Flight - Physical Symptoms Of Panic Attacks

Fight or Flight - Physical Symptoms Of Panic Attacks

Anxiety and panic feelings result from the ancient 'flight or fight' centers within our brains, where feelings of hysteria and fear are generated to ensure your system react to something - a threat or a dangerous event. The reaction that our body has to this situation is to pump extra adrenalin into the system to prepare your system for fleeing or fighting. This might have been an appropriate response in the days of caveman Ogg, but too many of us nowadays sit with a surplus of tension and fear in conditions that aren't really life-threatening. In this case, the extra supply of anxiety and panic can be termed an anxiety attack.

The precise factors behind panic attacks are still not really fully understood by science but there are signs that it is a combination of factors of which the physical body such as genetics and neurology might play a large role.

The following are physical symptoms of panic attacks:

Increase in heart rate and heart palpitations. Obviously for men this is especially distressing considering that the immediate reaction is that this could potentially be a cardiac arrest. The actual reason behind having an increase in heart rate is that the heart is then working harder to pump more blood into the system to enable you to respond swiftly to an urgent situation situation. The chest also tightens and you will have a feeling of not being able to breathe very well.

This, in turn, might cause you to try and breathe faster and you will then force more oxygen into your limbs. Your muscles will then tense up - also to allow you to respond faster to a threat.

Your arms and legs may now get all of the blood and oxygen, but some other areas of the body might now sit with less! Especially the stomach and brain can get by with less oxygen in danger scenarios. This is also why someone getting a panic attack might get a queasy feeling in the abdominal area and might feel dizzy or lightheaded.

Because of the additional blood flow to the muscles, your body temperature rises and in order to manage your temperature, you will begin to sweat.

You could also experience other symptoms that are due to the rise in adrenalin, blood and oxygen to the various places in your body that are designed to get you ready to face the perceived threat - either by fighting or running away.

Unfortunately in today's life, the only thing that happens is that you make a fool of yourself by arriving at the emergency area of your local hospital convinced that you are dying of a cardiac arrest!

The problem is that in a lot of cases your body reactions are programmed, quite simply, there is nothing that you can do about it and you cannot switch it off by just willing it. You should get medical attention since unfortunately these symptoms also do overlap with other, more severe health conditions and the problem is that you have to rule out any possible serious illnesses or diseases. Only then will you be in a position to think about panic attack treatment as such.

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