How To Get Rid Of Anxiety Attacks Forever
It isn't easy to get rid of anxiety attacks forever
. But with the right attitude and some proven techniques you can help eliminate your anxiety attacks for good.
Anxiety attacks are usually triggered when someone already has very high levels of anxiety and stress in their lives. These are higher than what would be experienced under normal circumstances.
Normally, if you found yourself in a stressful event such as taking an exam, a job interview, public speaking, driving in heavy traffic, being in a crowded elevator, etc., you'd be able to handle it (albeit with feelings of stress) and come out the other side okay.
But, if you are in a period of your life where you are already suffering stress, anxiety or worry on a daily basis, you will have higher-than-normal levels of anxiety. So that, when you experience an otherwise normal stressful event or situation, your anxiety levels can shoot up dramatically triggering an anxiety attack.
This happens because your body is programmed to react instantly to any situation that could be potentially harmful to it. This is your body's primeval 'fight or flight' response. When this happens, the chemical processes in your body enhance things like your sight, hearing, speed of reaction, physical strength, etc. That is, to better prepare you to fight the danger or run away from it.
What happens in modern day living is that where someone's already elevated anxiety levels have increased, through driving in thick rush-hour traffic for example, the body reads that as a signal that it is in immediate danger. So it takes no chances and triggers it's fight or flight response, leading to an anxiety attack.
So it's important for you to realise that the horrible symptoms of an anxiety attack are just your body's reaction to a perceived threat that doesn't in fact exist. And these symptoms cannot harm you.
It's just that when you were having an attack, because you knew there wasn't any physical danger, you couldn't understand the changes happening so quickly in your body. You thought then that you must be having a heart attack, for instance. But you weren't, you were perfectly safe all the time. You just didn't know it.
Now when considering how to get rid of anxiety attacks you need to bear the above in mind; they cannot harm you. So during an attack, the first thing is to recognise the symptoms for what they are, keep calm and remember that you'll come out the other side without any harm.
And there are techniques such as re-breathing into a paper bag to help re-balance your oxygen / carbon dioxide levels which are out of kilter during an attack. Also, try to focus on something, anything, that is around you. It could be a building, a bill board, a tree, anything that distracts you from thinking inwardly about the attack.
But, in considering how to get rid of anxiety attacks forever, you first need to eliminate your 'fear' of having another attack. This is important, because that very 'fear' can actually trigger another anxiety attack, because it builds on your already elevated anxiety. It's part of a vicious cycle of fear that must be broken first in order to truly eliminate anxiety attacks forever.
by: John Cielo
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