Controlling Anxiety and Panic Attacks

The anxiety disorders result in a feeling of concern and deep distress. This sentiment eventually impairs thinking and daily functioning of the person who suffers and the challenge will be controlling anxiety and panic attacks.

So let's briefly look at some cause of anxiety and panic attacks.

Anxiety is sometimes organic origin and certain diseases can trigger such as heart or respiratory failure, myocardial infarction or a malfunction of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). The abuse of certain drugs and certain drugs can also cause symptoms of anxiety. Finally, anxiety may be a symptom of a nervous breakdown, certain psychoses and most neuroses. Some theories have associated with sexual dissatisfaction, others to fear of losing something you love. Today, experts believe that anxiety disorders come from a combination of factors, both biochemical, psychological and behavioral, social and cultural rights.

There exist several type of anxiety one of theme is phobias which is more permanent and comprehensive, but it crystallizes on the particular circumstances that make it happen. You do not feel particular concern in your daily life, but the anxiety arises when you are facing the situation that triggers the phobia. Controlling anxiety and panic attacks in this case is easy: just avoid the situation that create it. The disadvantage is that many phobias correspond to situations that occur frequently throughout your life and they can therefore become very disabling and are much more difficult to manage. The most common are: agoraphobia, fear of public places and crowds, the claustrophobia: fear of enclosed places, elevators, airplanes, private rooms for example; zoophobies: fear of certain animals, mice, dogs, cats in particular.

There are two main types of phobias: on the one hand, social phobia, fear of situations in which one is confronted with relationships with others (fear of public speaking, fear of his superiors exaggerated, abnormal timidity in his personal relationships ...) and other phobias of objects or situations that do not involve social relations (claustrophobia, fear of animals).

What Is Anxiety Disorder?

Let me start this first post and define what is anxiety?

Anxiety can be a normal "alarm system" alerting you to danger. Imagine coming home and finding a burglar in your home. Your heart beats faster. Your palms get sweaty. Your mind races. In a situation such as this, anxiety can be helpful. It can add an extra spark to help you get out of danger. Under more normal but busy times, it can give you energy to help you get things done.

But sometimes anxiety may go out of control, giving you an overwhelming sense of dread and fear for no apparent reason. This kind of anxiety can disrupt your life.

Are there different types of anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety can be a general feeling of worry, an attack of feeling panicky, a fear of a certain situation or a response to a traumatic experience.

What is generalized anxiety?

Generalized anxiety disorder is ongoing worry or fear that isn’t related to a particular event or situation, or is way out of proportion to what you would expect - for instance, constantly worrying about the health of a child who is perfectly healthy. 

Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder include muscle tension, trembling, shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, irritability, loss of sleep and not being able to concentrate.

In the next post i will show you how to overcome your anxiety and panic attack unsing a simple new technique, all you need to do is to take action.