The Causes of Anxiety Attacks and How We Can Prevent Them
One of the things about anxiety attacks that makes them so frightening is that they seem to come on so suddenly and without warning. Once the attack is taking place it can be so overwhelming it becomes all we think about and the rest of our life has to take a back seat until it has run it course.
People who experience anxiety and panic say they feel as if they are out of their minds or they feel unreal. Actually, anxiety sufferers are not at all out of their minds. They are in fact, normal. Panic and the unreal feelings it brings about are caused by adrenaline. It is the nervous system that is not quite right, it isn’t anything associated with the mind. Anxiety may have something to do with one’s thought process, but it isn’t insanity.
In this article, we will talk about what is really happening to a person who is experiencing an anxiety attack and teach some inside knowledge which will be helpful for those trying to overcome anxiety and/or panic attack.
Doing the Tighten Up
We often here the old saying, “go with the flow.” With anxiety disorder these are very wise words. Nervousness is a human response to fighting or running away from something. So, when our nervousness brings about feelings that are very uncomfortable, often we respond by fighting or running away from these feelings. This is leads to the nervousness intensifying and this nervousness may before long, turn into a full blown panic attack.
When we experience panic/anxiety, our body functions differently because of adrenaline. Because of the different way our body is functioning at this time we will feel things we normally don’t and usually, these feelings can be disconcerting. However, when we fight or run away from these feelings we bring on more unusual feelings and so we compound our misery.
After an anxiety attack has come and gone and the anxiety sufferer feels good, he or she can make the mistake of fearing an another onslaught of panic. This can happen because the sufferer feels well and wants to always feel this way. So, he or she makes sure to be on guard so at the slightest sign of nervousness, the anxiety can be successfully fought off.
Fighting is a sure fire way to turn ordinary nervousness into full fledged panic. Without fighting we can start to turn the corner on panic attacks, even though it will take some time for panic attacks to stop coming back after we learn just how to do this. Still, when we are always looking out for, shying away from and forcing panic away, we are inviting it.
Giving Up or, Passivity
Since anxiety is always fueled by fighting and/or running away, it lessons in intensity when it is ignored. I know, this is easier said than done, but it is the key to becoming free of anxiety and panic attacks.
Developing the attitude of letting panic do to you whatever it will is the way to lessening the severity of each panic attack as they occur. In time, and maybe you will be surprised how short a time, no panic at all will occur because by ignoring the symptoms of panic, such as feelings of unreality, you will have taken the teeth out of panic. When there is nothing to fear, there is nothing left to fight, no adrenaline and so, no panic.
