Panic Attacks And Anxiety: What You May Or May Not Know

Fear is a feeling we are familiar with as human beings but what happens when that fear goes out of control

? Imagine what it must be like to have your heart start racing, to break out in a sudden sweat, to feel unable to take deep enough breaths to fill your lungs because they feel restricted and nothing you do will allow you to relax enough to breath normally. Imagine the fear of dying so overpowering so intense that you think what youre experiencing must surely be a heart attack. Its almost like drowning, lost, alone, in a sea of fear and panic.

Panic attacks arent fatal but are terrifying and unpredictable with many triggers. A person who suffers from them can become anxious and stressed because of the fear of having another attack. Its a terrible way to live. Just as bad is living with anxiety, its said that close to 7 million people suffer from General Anxiety Disorder in America alone! When you have it, it affects every part of your world. Symptoms people experience can include lack of sleep, irritability, muscle tension and exhaustion.

This disorder manifests as excessive worry, when everyday issues are perceived to have disproportionally bad outcomes associated to them. The body responds to this worry by being tense and the constant thinking makes it hard to concentrate or relax. Many people experience this and unlike panic disorder the effects on the body are not as acute but they can go on for months and months even leading to depression. A person becomes irritable and agitated a bad combination when you have kids or when you have to deal with the stresses of everyday life because regardless of whats going on and how we feel we still have to deal with the stresses of life.

There are a couple of known treatments out there which have their own challenges. The first and most problematic are anti-depressants; though they might take away the symptoms they have to be taken daily leading to dependency and one of the withdrawal symptoms include rebound anxiety and panic attacks. Psychotherapy can definitely help cognitive behavior therapy for example where a specialist helps you to change your thoughts around experiences that work as triggers in your life. The challenge is the costs of therapy as it can be lengthy and it may take time to really deal with the actual causes as studies show most people experience there first attacks before the age of 20. Cutting out smoking, caffeine and exercising regularly can also lower the levels of ones stress and tension though some people in fact treat their anxiety with smoking.

It isnt difficult to understand how more and more people are affected by this. We live in a society that has all kinds of demands on us. It has become increasingly challenging to reach our goals, create the lives we want for our families and at the same time cope with the many other responsibilities we have in our lives. But regardless of whether we ourselves are suffering from the symptoms or know someone who is, we can rest assured that its not a mental thing though the fear may make you fear you might be losing your mind, these attacks are a behavioral response and they can be stopped.

by: L. Makena

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