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Anxiety

1. Symptoms of Anxiety

Anxiety attacks and panic attacks often can go hand in hand, and if they or something like them has happened to you recently and you didn’t know what it was, here is a quick run down of what some of the symptoms are.

Anxiety attacks manifest themselves in three different ways. Externally visible symptoms where the bodily functions show a reaction can include cold sweats, shaking, trembling, pale skin and wide open eyes. Behaviour can change to both voluntary or involuntary actions all directed at escaping or avoiding the source of the anxiety.

Finally, the most obvious signs to the person with the anxiety attack is the emotions it stirs. This can include an overwhelming sense of panic or fear, nausea, chills as well as hyperventilation and light headedness.

Hyper ventilation incidentally is the shortness of breath that happens when we panic and inhale too much oxygen. This leads to feeling disoriented, light headed and if you don’t know what is happening, it can accelerate the anxiety to the point where we can end up passing out.

2. Managing the onset of anxiety

There are several things you can do to calm yourself down if you feel the anxiety rising. For instance if you are experiencing shortness of breath and feel that it may be a symptom of a panic attack you can cup your hands and place them over your nose and mouth while at the same time concentrating on taking long, slow, breaths of air, as controlled as possible.

Breathing is a great way to manage your levels of anxiety, because the body’s stress responses are influenced by how we are breathing. Slow, calm breathing for instance will reduce the presence of this fight or flight response because your instincts assume that the danger is over if you can breath that slowly again.

Also, if you tell yourself that this is not a natural reaction and that it will go away, that should help too. You can help yourself further if you have a “happy place” or something else to focus on while you concentrate on calming your breathing down and talk calmly to yourself.

3. Focus on something else

Although anxiety disorders are not completely curable, advances in medication and therapy, not to mention public awareness, have helped to ensure that people are still able to successfully function in society, despite their problem. But it is also important to realize that like all problems there are solutions to all anxiety disorders.

If you are a panic attack sufferer, take heart. There are ways to get around the symptoms you are feeling, and there are people out there who are willing to help you, if you just look. The anxiety you feel during a panic attack will eventually go away after a while, even though it may not feel like that at the time. It’s just a matter of learning to take control of your mind, or your body.

One of the things that you can do to take control over your anxiety is to occupy your mind with things that make the anxiety go away or reduce. It is far better for you to focus on something that you experience as a positive as it can help you deal with the onset of any anxiety much better.

Anxiety and related panic disorders affects almost 20 million Americans every year; many of the people you deal with each day suffer from panic attacks in the privacy of their own homes, but can you tell? Probably not. The environment around you is proof evident that many people in the world have panic attacks, but they have their problem under control enough to where they are able to lead perfectly normal existences.


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