Understanding Panic Attacks
What is a panic attack? A panic attack is a sudden attack of exaggerated anxiety and fear. Often, attacks happen without warning and without any apparent reason. Some people may experience just one episode of panic attack, while others can have recurring episodes. Recurring episodes usually happen after a person is exposed to various events or situations that may "trigger" panic. While it is generally harmless, panic attacks can severely disable a person physically, emotionally and psychologically. In extreme cases, panic attacks can lead to panic disorder. Who gets panic attacks? The condition affects many people. It is believed that 10% of the ...
What You should Do if You Had a Panic Attack
Experiencing a panic attack for the first time can be distressing not only because of the actual experience during the attack but also because you tend to develop fear of future attacks. Also known as anticipatory anxiety, fear of future attacks causes continuous fear and tension disabling you to relax. Often when the condition is not addressed, it will lead to phobic avoidance wherein you avoid places, situations, gatherings, and events where emergency help is not readily available or where having an attack can be embarrassing. Take into extreme, this condition may lead to agoraphobia where you begin to avoid much ...
Panic Attacks: Between Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
For most people, dealing with life stressors job changes, moving, pregnancy, birth of a child, death of a loved one etc. do not result to anxiety and panic attacks. However, to those who are vulnerable to emotional stress, such situations may lead to panic attacks even if these events happened way back in their life. The reason for this is still not fully understood but it is believed that one major cause of panic attacks is extended period of stress (not by a few days of tension but by several months of constant worrying and unprocessed emotions). The chances of having ...
Panic Attacks – Psyche Your Self
Consulting a psychologist, or a behavioral therapist for that matter, regarding panic attacks may be the best course of action you could do for yourself. That is, if you are not convinced that you can actually help your self out of your condition. But you cannot forever rely on drugs and medical practitioners to give you help. Somehow you have to take action; you have to learn to cope. Here are some ideas that could help you psyche yourself into coping with panic attacks. You are what you think. If you think that you are fearful of something, you would actually ...
Physical Signs of Anxiety Attack
Anxiety is a feeling of fear, apprehension and discomfort over a situation. This is actually a good and healthy feeling since the body is able to recognize something that it needs to address. This "flight or fight" response enables the body to get that much needed boost of energy to react to the specific situation. In this case, anxiety is helpful. However, if it gets intense, recurring and exaggerated, it may already be considered as an anxiety attack. The exact cause of an anxiety attack is not fully understood, but research suggests that genetics, life experiences and brain chemistry contribute to ...
Treatments
Various Treatments for Panic Attacks
The cause of panic attacks is still not fully understood. What is known is that it can happen to anyone,...
Self-Help Treatment for Panic Attack
Although it is not advisable to diagnose yourself with panic attack, it is really not sensible to wait...
Preventing Anxiety Attacks
Anxiety attacks choose no one. It can happen to happy and perfectly normal people of all ages including...
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Triggers and Causes of Panic Attacks
Here are the common triggers and causes of panic attacks: Phobia – People who are exposed to certain...
Teen Anxiety Attacks: Signs, Symptoms and Remedies
All teens, just like any adult, feel anxious from time to time as a normal reaction to stressors. Going...
Symptoms Child Anxiety Attacks
Children anxiety disorders are common, but the exact number of sufferers is unknown, most likely because...
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What You should Do if You Had a Panic Attack
Experiencing a panic attack for the first time can be distressing not only because of the actual experience during the attack but also because you tend to develop fear of future attacks. Also known as anticipatory anxiety, fear of future attacks causes continuous fear and tension disabling you to relax. Often when the condition is not addressed, it... [Read more of this review]
What Can You Do to Stop Anxiety Attacks
Episodes of anxiety attacks can be uncomfortable, unpleasant and unhealthy. Because of this, most people head to the medicine cabinet for a quick relief. While some may find medications as an effective way to battle anxiety, there are more natural and equally effective ways of dealing your excessive emotion without subjecting the body to different negative... [Read more of this review]
Understanding Panic Attacks
What is a panic attack? A panic attack is a sudden attack of exaggerated anxiety and fear. Often, attacks happen without warning and without any apparent reason. Some people may experience just one episode of panic attack, while others can have recurring episodes. Recurring episodes usually happen after a person is exposed to various events or situations... [Read more of this review]
Understanding Anxiety and Anxiety Attacks
Anxiety is a normal, healthy feeling that is experienced by everyone. It is the body’s way of reacting to stimulus that pushes us to either “fight” or “flight” over a situation. However, when anxiety attacks are chronic, severe, and irrational, and begin to affect the health of a person (physically, psychologically and... [Read more of this review]
Physical Signs of Anxiety Attack
Anxiety is a feeling of fear, apprehension and discomfort over a situation. This is actually a good and healthy feeling since the body is able to recognize something that it needs to address. This “flight or fight” response enables the body to get that much needed boost of energy to react to the specific situation. In this case, anxiety... [Read more of this review]
Panic Attacks – Signs of Vulnerability
Panic attacks do not come from nowhere, though the possibility of them coming out of the blue cannot be discounted. Nonetheless, there is always that something that triggers the occurrence of such attacks. Experts believe that the causes are multi-factorial and pre-disposing factors are many. Included are the following: Genetics. Panic attacks run in... [Read more of this review]
Panic Attacks – Psyche Your Self
Consulting a psychologist, or a behavioral therapist for that matter, regarding panic attacks may be the best course of action you could do for yourself. That is, if you are not convinced that you can actually help your self out of your condition. But you cannot forever rely on drugs and medical practitioners to give you help. Somehow you have to take... [Read more of this review]
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