Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Don't ignore your anxiety attacks

By Kathy Nelson

An anxiety panic attack is known as a panic attack that is brought on due to unnatural levels of anxiety. This kind of anxiety can be related to just about anything. Anxiety panic attacks are not just limited to big stressful events and occasions. You can have anxiety over someone you love, a event, and we can even have an anxiety panic attack over what clothes to wear. One of the main features of an anxiety panic attack is the focus of the attack.

When a person experiences panic, then usually the panic has a trigger. For people who experience chronic panic attacks the trigger is the same thing. Agoraphobics have an anxiety panic attack anytime they travel out beyond their safe distance and for some people this can be just outside of their doorstep.

Your body is programmed to protect you, and for all of our years of education, rules and regulations when faced with situations that our mind considers to be dangerous it will try and force us to either stand and fight or run. This is called fight or flight and has managed to keep the human race alive for millions of years. The problem is that the high levels of chemicals released at this time can cause you to have an anxiety attack if you are unprepared for it.

When a person experiences an stressful or traumatic event the body will react to it. This can release chemicals into a persons system that will cause an extreme reaction to the situation. An anxiety panic attack can occur when chemicals are triggered. The body assumes there is danger that it must react to, this is called a panic attack. An anxiety panic attack can have many of these key factors. Feelings of fear, hopelessness, increased heart rate, sweating, tingling, nausea, headaches, and emotional fluctuations.

We are all different and we all deal with panic differently, most people will find that fear and panic breed anxiety. We are usually able to control our feelings of fear and panic, we try to get them under control before they take over our very being. If you are unable to control these feelings then you will often end up suffering from a anxiety attack.

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