subject: Anxiety Attacks - How To Deal With Them [print this page] Anxiety attacks can happen out of nowhere, believe me, this I know. What you should understand about anxiety is that 99% of the time, it does not indicate that there is anything actually wrong with you. What this essentially means is that you have nothing really worth worrying about. People who have anxiety attacks feel symptoms that are uncommon to many and that can feel scary. You may even feel like you are going to die in some cases.
I messed up my stomach for a time by taking aspirin every time I felt a pain in my chest, even though I had two catherizations of the heart which were normal each time. Sometimes we need to understand and trust that when it is our time to leave, it is our time to leave! Once you can accept the worst outcome imaginable, which is death, it can make controlling and destroying anxiety attacks a real possibility.
Look at it this way as well: When you have anxiety attacks, there is something that is causing you stress and you may very well not even have an idea of what it could be. There is this thing in our minds called inner dialogue. What this means is that we are able to talk to ourselves and this allows us to think and make decisions. An example of this would be like: "Should I each this fatty ice cream or not?"We converse with ourselves in variations such as this all the time.
What most programs that are targeted to helping people with anxiety attacks focus on is chemicals that are unbalanced, how the amygdala isn't functioning normally because of chemical imbalances, etc. What can you really do about this? You are exposed to more chemicals and biological insults than you can shake a stick at. There is one thing that you can do that doesn't cost extra besides proper training on how to do it and that is to work on your inner dialogue.
How do you talk to yourself when you are having anxiety attacks? Think about this for a second because you might realize that you may be asking yourself "what if" questions which only serve to make the anxiety worse! What you need to do is to realize that you are not going to die and that you are just experiencing a habit of the mind and in fact you can stop it if you change the way you talk to yourself during it.
You simply just need to learn the right things to say to yourself when you are having anxiety attacks and you'll be home free! I've prepared some really strong anxiety and OCD information for you beneath, enjoy!
