Anxiety Attacks

Anxiety attacks

        All people know what anxiety feels like. The heart pounds before a big exam, we got butterflies in our stomach before a date, we worry about family problems. If the fear is preventing us form living our lives they way we would like, we may be suffering from an anxiety disorder. However, you do not have to worry, because there are many anxiety treatments and self-help strategies that can help you reduce your anxiety symptoms and take the control of your life. It is normal and common to feel tense or scared when you find yourself under pressure or you have to face a stressful situation.

       Anxiety is the natural answer of the body to danger. Even though it may feel unpleasant, anxiety is not always something bad. Even though it may be hard to believe anxiety can help you stay alert and focused, lead you to action, and can also motivate you in solving problems. But if anxiety is constant, and interferes with your activities, then it has turned into an anxiety disorder. Anxiety attacks are a group of related conditions, rather than a single disorder. Anxiety attacks can look different from person to person.

        A person may suffer from intense anxiety attacks that can strike with no warning, while other person gets in panic at the thought of keeping a speech. Someone may struggle with a disabling fear of driving uncontrollable, and others may be in a constant state of tension, worrying about anything and everything. Despite all their different forms, all anxiety disorders have one major symptom: constant or sever fear or worry in situations where other people would not feel threatened.

Emotional symptoms of anxiety attacks disorder

       The emotional symptoms of the anxiety disorders include:

• The feeling of apprehension or dread
• Difficulty in concentrating
• Feeling tense and jumpy
• Anticipating the worst that can happen
• Irritability
• Restlessness
• Watching for any signs of danger
• Feeling like your mind is gone blank

Physical symptoms of anxiety attacks disorder

       Anxiety is more than just a feeling. Anxiety attacks involve a wide range of physical symptoms. The persons who suffer of anxiety often mistake their condition with a medical illness. At these persons exist the possibility to go to many doctors and go a lot of times to the hospital before their anxiety disorders are discovered.

       Here are some common physical symptoms of the anxiety disorders:

• Pounding heart
• Sweating
• Stomach upset or dizziness
• Frequent urination or diarrhea
• Difficulty in breathing
• Tremors and twitches
• Muscle tension
• Headaches
• Fatigue
• Even insomnia

       The anxiety attacks are known as panic attacks, and are characterized as episodes of intense panic or fear. Anxiety attacks happen suddenly and without warning. The anxiety attacks usually last within 10 minutes and they rarely last more than half an hour. During this short time the fear can be so severe, that it makes you feel like you are about to die or totally lose control. Also the physical symptoms are so scary that many persons believe that they are having a heart attack. After an anxiety attack is over, then will interfere the worry about having another one, especially in a public place.

       The general symptoms of anxiety attacks are:

• Surge of overwhelming panic
• The feeling of loosing control or going crazy
• Palpitations of the heart or pain in the chest
• Feeling like you are going to die
• Difficulty in breathing or sensations of chocking
• Hyperventilation
• Hot flashes or chills
• Trembling or shaking
• Nausea or stomach aches
• Feeling detached or unreal

       It is very important to seek help if you are starting to avoid some certain situations or places because of your fear of having another anxiety attack.