Knowing what the symptoms are of anxiety attacks and panic attacks gives you a power to handling your attacks. Recognizing the symptoms that you are experiencing as normal indicators of increased anxiety, stress and fear will allow you to categorize and take appropriate steps to get rid of panic attacks before they set in.
The fear, the sweaty hands, your heart beating faster and faster, your mind racing about all the what if, what if, it might, it could...
What if I can't make it on time?
What if I can't get this project done?
What if my boss doesn't like my work?
What will I do if I get fired?How will we cope, feed my family?
I don't know what I will do for that test tomorrow, I will fail it for sure, lose my placing, my job...help!
If you have ever started down these trains of thought we both know it is a recipe for disaster. The anxious thoughts start the huge snowball rolling down the path of increased anxiety and a full blown panic attack--gripping your chest, going pale, feeling sick to your stomach and head all at the same time.
Knowing the anxiety and panic attacks symptoms before they hit you 'square in the face' can give you a power to better deal with them before they completely devastate your day and eventually run and ruin your relationships and life. Keep in mind that you are not having a heart attack!! Anxiety and panic attacks are primarily run from the incredible power your mind has over your whole body. Physiologically two basic feedback systems work through your body a positive and negative feedback loop. A negative feedback loop serves to reduce the initial stimulus similar to a thermostat in your home(temp goes up, adjustment is made to reduce the higher temp). A positive feedback loop as you may have guessed intensifies or reinforces the original stimulus and with anxiety and panic attacks the symptoms reinforce, add to themselves to further enhance the attack. This system has to be interrupted.
Just think that knowing the symptoms is always your first step to understanding and dealing effectively with an anxiety attack.
Here is what you need to look out for:
Emergency room visits from a panic attack are a direct result of self diagnosis. Believing that the chest pain and shortness of breath is a sign that you are in the midst of having a heart attack. The attack is a sudden painful and disconcerting episode that strikes fear and intensifies anxiety.
Please note that if you are suffering from a panic attack for the first time or even if you have had a few there is a possibility that the attack with its symptoms could be a precursor to a heart condition or even a heart attack. It is wise to get yourself checked immediately through a doctor, health professional or best go straight to the emergency at your hospital. It is always better safe than sorry. Your loved ones will always support you. If you are diagnosed with a susceptibility to panic attacks then you can now begin to deal with it effectively.
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