Understanding Anxiety and Panic Attacks!

What Is Anxiety?

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Listen up! If you have ever suffered from an anxiety attack, 

you know what it is.  Your heart seems to be leaping out of 

your chest and you feel as though you are crawling out of 

your skin. Your skin feels cold and clammy, you are trembling 

and even shaking. Your thoughts are jumbled and you may even 

have trouble breathing or swallowing.  You feel as though you 

are a prisoner of your mind, and you are. Then you panic!








Some studies have found that about 20 percent of the population will, 

at one time in their life, suffer from panic or anxiety attacks.  

Many people who end up having an anxiety attack wind up in 

the hospital emergency room, convinced that they are having 

a heart attack. Many of the anxiety attack symptoms are similar 

to that of a heart attack, although heart attacks do not generally 

present with heart palpitations. You will notice that something is 

wrong. Read on...

Most people feel little sympathy for others who have anxiety and 

feel that they should just “snap out of it.” What many people do 

not understand is that anxiety disorders cause anxiety attacks and 

they are very real. Someone can no more snap out of an anxiety 

attack than they can a broken foot.

Understand that our bodies are trained to react in a certain way 

when we feel under a great deal of stress or face life threatening 

situations. But sometimes, the brain chemicals are unbalanced, 

giving us the sensation that there is something wrong, although 

in reality, there isn’t. Our bodies then search for a way to come 

up with something to justify the feelings we are experiencing.

Most people who have frequent anxiety attacks have obsessive 

compulsive disorder.  In such cases, people will have intrusive 

thoughts that will bother them to the point that they repeat rituals. 

Take frequent hand washing, for instance. This is one of the rituals 

often repeated by someone with obsessive compulsive disorder. 

Anxiety attacks are our body’s reaction to stress. Stress is usually 

something that occurs environmentally. Most people who have 

anxiety attacks do so after a stressful event in their lives. They 

often come after the death of a loved one, divorce or loss of a 

job. Anyone who suffers more than one anxiety attacks is usually 

diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

Most often the anxiety disorder can be a number of different 

disorders including general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, 

obsessive compulsive disorder, social disorder or post-traumatic 

stress disorder. Many of the symptoms are similar to one another 

and the treatment for these symptoms is also very similar. 

Anti-anxiety medication is usually combined with an anti-depressant

as well as therapy to combat anxiety attacks.  While anxiety attacks 

can be very scary and even crippling to a point, they can also be 

treated in a number of different ways, including medication, therapy 

and even herbal treatments. I strongly believe that while an anxiety 

attack is not a life threatening illness, it can end up causing serious 

problems in your life, if you do not get early treatment. I highly 

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