subject: Panic Attack Symptoms -- Get to Be Aware Of Them Really Well [print this page] When you have been suffering from panic attacks for a very long time now, you pretty much recognize what the panic attack symptoms are. From hyperventilating and fainting, and all others too; the whole enchilada if you want to put it that way. Now, has it ever crossed your head to question or wonder what your body feels when you feel the signs? If you ever did, then let me go ahead and describe symptoms of panic attack and try to be a little thorough in discussing each.
So, the first sign we will talk about is hyperventilation or the feeling of being drowned. I have not drowned before but I certainly recognize how it feels to hyperventilate. It is indentical to what you feel after running very fast for an hour and trying to catch your breath afterwards. You have a faster intake of breathes and you also have a hurting chest.
The reason for your hyperventilation is that your body can sense that you lack oxygen and your chest muscles are constricting. But the quicker you breathe, the shallower your breathing becomes and so, you still get less oxygen.
This unnatural breathing and exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your body usually result to the second sign I will talk about - fainting. It does not really mean that when you have a panic attack you also faint, but some generally faints. This is actually connected to excessive loss of carbon dioxide and deficiency of oxygen in the brain. Fainting is not that injurious itself, but when you hit something hard while fainting, then it becomes injurious.
Another common symptom is tachycardia or palpitations. The sympathetic nervous response of our body causes our heart rate to rise. When you are under a lot of stress, or your body believes as if it is in dangered by either an inner or external factor, it will trigger its sympathetic nervous response. This will prepare you to run from the cause or oppose it.
How does it prepare your body? It is fairly simple, it gives focus on organs that you will require for a "battle" such as your heart, lungs and brain. To develop these organs, they would need large numbers of oxygen from the blood. What better method to do that than for your heart to pump more rapidly right?
The next sign I will discuss is also because of the sympathetic nervous response; and that is diaphoresis or better known as too much sweating. The excessive sweating is essentially due to the increased metabolism when you are having attacks.
Upset stomach, bowel movement changes, and trembling are among the many other panic attack symptoms that have not been discussed here. In general, all of them is caused by the sympathetic nervous response. What is significant for you to understand is that none of these signs can kill you, so you can breathe now.
Panic Attack Symptoms -- Get to Be Aware Of Them Really Well
