subject: Is It Anxiety Panic Disorder Or Nervous Anxiety? [print this page] Anxiety and panic attacks have become very common in today's world. It seems that more people than ever are dealing with panic attacks these days. Panic attacks, along with generalized anxiety have become commonplace. Of course, the fact panic attacks are common doesn't make them feel any less terrible.
It seems like with each passing year more and more people are having frequent panic attacks. Naturally, every one of us would like to learn how to stop anxiety from ruining our lives. It is also most desirable for anyone suffering through panic disorder to find out how to defeat panic forever as well.
You Can't Run Away
For those who are experiencing a great deal of anxiety or perhaps even a panic attack, here is a tip for you. For panic attacks to fully develop, we have to be running from them or worried about what they can possibly do to us.
After we realize it is our apprehension that is making these panic attacks so horrible; they start to diminish in strength. Panic builds in strength like a rolling snowball as we try to run from it, but when we stop trying to avoid panic, it melts.
How Much Nervousness is a Disorder?
Of course, when we talk about this type of anxiety and panic, we aren't referring to ordinary nervousness, which is often called nervous anxiety. The difference between common nervousness and anxiety disorder is largely a matter of the degree of nervousness or anxiety experienced.
It is true; we use the term nervous anxiety many times to describe simple nervousness. The dictionary defines anxiety as an uneasiness of mind or distressful state of mind that is experienced by someone who is fearful or has had a recent misfortune of some kind. This definition, of course, describes a relatively normal type, or non-anxiety disorder type, of nervousness.
From Ordinary Nervousness Mighty Panic Grows
However anxiety disorder which is a more intense type of nervousness is most often preceded by ordinary nervous anxiety. This intense nervousness involves physical feelings which bring the anxiety sufferer to the point he/she can temporarily lose some, or even all of his/her capacity to perform normally. Very intense spells of nervousness are what we know as panic attacks. It is important to know panic attacks can be successfully overcome once the anxiety sufferer realizes they are adrenaline driven feelings and not real physical problems.
Very basically, the way to becoming free of anxiety disorder and panic attacks, requires the realization fear causes adrenaline to flow through veins and when we become fearful of anything, even anxiety itself, we cause more adrenaline to flow. Refuse to fear the symptoms anxiety and panic cause you to experience and you will be on your way to defeating them.
