Panic and Anxiety Attacks

Mark M Morris asked:


Panic attacks are characterized by a sudden episode which seems to cause a hindrance to our normal everyday lives. While panic attacks are often ignored as a normal occurrence, it needs to be understood that panic attacks are the root cause for various ailments, besides of course, a dull, listless and terrifying life. Taking cue from the above statement, let us now throw some light on the lesser known secrets behind your panic attacks.

It May Have Been Be Triggered From A Past Episode

Anxiety panic attacks are known to be triggered owing to a past experience. It is a kind of trauma which has been witnessed in the past but is yet to be forgotten by our brain. When a person suddenly recalls this past episode through a seemingly visual appearance, he/she is said to have suffered a panic attack. It is interesting to note that over 95% of the total patients suffering from panic attacks seem to have developed a fancy towards panicking unnecessarily and have not witnessed a life threatening situation before.

Anxiety Panic Attacks Have A Short Life Span

Whenever you are said to be suffering from an anxiety panic attack, you are in reality panicking for about a minute or two. Thereafter, you tend to simmer down and within half an hour to an hour from the time you suffered a stress panic attack, you are back to your normal self again. It has also been studied that three fourth of the patients suffering from a stress panic attack are women. While treating panic attacks, it has been noticed that most patients fall in the age group of 20 to 30 years. Hence, these attacks seldom affect teenagers and people who are over the age of 40.

Panic Attack Symptoms an Be Detected By The Patient

Panic attack symptoms can easily be studied by the patient. In case the patient is suffering from a raging heartbeat, is having difficulty in breathing, is terrified to the extent of being paralyzed with fear, is nervous and shaking, is feeling lightheaded, is choking, has chest pains, has a tingling sensation in the toes and fingers and feels as though he/she is about to go crazy or die, the patient is said to be suffering from a panic related attack. Causes of panic attacks can be plenty but if you suffer from any one of these symptoms, you need to get yourself treated through a tried and tested natural therapy.

The Main Reasons Behind Anxiety Disorders

While sleep panic attacks are known to be caused by a past trauma, most attacks which exhibit a high anxiety level are said to have been caused by a mental trauma which seemingly has left a lasting impression in the mind of the sufferer. These attacks often force the patient to rush straight to a medical center. Nonetheless, these attacks persist several times a month and may last for two to five minutes at a stretch. A large population of the American population is stated to suffer from severe panic attacks and is need for immediate medical assistance.

Medication Is Not The Cure For Anxiety Disorders

Most people who suffer from panic related attacks rush straight to the nearest medical center and try to cure panic attacks through sleep inducing drugs and anti depressants. Unfortunately, these drugs simply put you to sleep without even analyzing your disorder, let alone trying to cure it. In such a scenario, you need to adopt a tried and tested natural therapy which would eradicate the root cause of your anxiety attacks. If you wish to be free of these attacks, you need to be willing to forget your traumatic experience from within. Hence, a natural therapy is considered a permanent cure for your anxiety related problems.



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Panic Defence asked:


This article is presented by Panic Defence, the UK’s leading name in combating panic and anxiety. Click here to end panic quickly and effectively.

You’re short of breath. You’re heart won’t stop racing, you’re unbelievably tense, and you feel like you can’t breathe. What is wrong with you? Why do you feel this way? What is a “Panic Attack”? A panic attack occurs when the body gets overloaded with stress. It cannot handle the anxiety it is being put under, and so then it manifests itself into what is termed a “Panic Attack”.

Learning to cope with the panic attacks, can be very difficult in the beginning. You must learn to keep your fears from getting worse and out of control if nothing else. Realize that you are in complete control of the given situation. There are some steps you can take to prepare right now, before you have your next attack. These steps can make dealing with the next occurrence significantly easier.

Try to think about the most relaxing and peaceful place you have ever been. Try to remember with every sense of your body the way it made you feel. Capture that feeling in your minds eye and tell yourself to allow your body to feel that way right now. Keep up these visuals while inhaling and exhaling deep breaths. Soon you will begin to feel the stress and anxiety leave you as it is replaced by a relaxed and calm feeling.

This article was presented by Panic Defence, the UK’s leading name in combating panic and anxiety. Click here for a free download with easy and effective tips to end panic.



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Abhishek Agarwal asked:


What is Panic attack? Panic attack is defined as a period of intense, often temporarily debilitating, sense of extreme fear or psychological distress, typically of abrupt onset. Having shed of the mist from the word(s), it worth to note that clinical research on panic attack has been going on for a long period of time, as science seeks for enhanced treatment choices. These clinical studies don’t just focus on the common methods like medication. They also concentrate on the study of specific options and mental counseling techniques on panic attacks.

These research activities have focused and addressed quite a number of clinical studies for panic disorders. An example of what these studies have unraveled is that breathing could be linked to your anxiety levels. Outgoing people who engage in plenty of outdoor activities minus excessive worrying mostly breathe deeper as compared to people who are pessimists and devoted worriers. These studies, therefore, focus on whether improved breathing methods can be an efficient treatment for panic attacks. This is typically involved as part of a course teaching relaxation.

Clinical studies for panic attacks have also researched the physical reactions that are resultant of panic attacks. The positive report here is that there is no long term physical damage from panic attacks. Major physical harm that occur are due to the continuous nerval tension and anxiety level, but not due to attack. This means that by learning to reduce your anxiety and worry, you reap double benefits. You could decrease your stress level hence lower the effect stress has on your body, inclusive of your cardiovascular system.

Another focus of this research is expanding the scope of association between panic attacks and diet. Scientific research reduce of panic disorders are trying to establish whether panic attacks can be avoided or lessened in number by increasing or decreasing certain foods. i.e. it’s general custom now to advise people with panic attacks to do away with caffeine. But new studies are focusing on other things like adding hormones to meat in the course of production and extreme sugar consumption. Among other things being researched includes:

- Some physical circumstances that could possibly cause panic disorders – yeast hypersensitivity, thyroid malfunction or imbalance, Premenstrual Syndrome e.t.c.

- Effectiveness of physical exercise in reducing panic attack occurrences.

- Application of medication.

- Making use of visualization as a way of preventing panic attacks.

The highest levels of development in clinical research of panic attacks are centered on diverse therapies that enable people learn thought process control techniques. It’s common believe that panic attacks are as a result of people’s thought’s being centered on worry causing events that maybe irrational at best. The research is also looking for ways to assist people control the inception or advancement of panic attacks should it occur. An example of these symptom recreation techniques enables a person to do something that could result in comparable reactions to those of panic attacks. An example can be this, if you become giddy during an attack, then that could be recreated by you spinning around till you get dizzy, doing this enables you develop psychological defense against panic attack.

Recent scientific research on panic attacks are making significant progress in finding ways that help people who encounter these attacks.



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Panic Defence asked:


Panic attack can strike anytime, anywhere and to anyone. It doesn’t even need a reason to hit you. Although excessive stress can trigger a panic attack, it is completely random most of the time.

However, once you experience the first panic attack, the body will be put on “alert” status and the chances of having another attack is increased. This becomes a problem if panic attacks occur again and again.

An important contributor to the occurrence of further panic attacks is related to where the first one occurred. For most, it happens in a place where they cannot escape easily: for example, in a train, bus, taxi, elevator, building. For example, if the panic attack occurred during a bus ride, chance are, you would be quite nervous during your next bus ride as you think panic attack might hit you again. The more nervous you are, the more likely another panic attack will happen.

With your initial experience with panic attack, you will most probably try to escape before you feel the attack coming on. Once out of the bus, the panic feeling subside and your worst fear is confirmed. You associate bus ride to your panic attack. A few more experiences confirms this and you avoid taking a bus altogether.

What I have just explained is a typical example of the development of panic attack and it can be applied to any situation. You have a panic attack at a particular place or situation. You link it to that place or situation and avoid it.

The main culprit here is fear. The fear and anxiety of having a panic attack causes it to happen. Panic attack feeds on fear and anxiety. The more your fearful of it happening, the harder and faster it will hit you. In order to control a panic attack and stop it forever, you need to attack its roots – fear.

The most effective way to stop panic attack forever is to KNOW that you will not be harmed. A large part of the fear comes from the fact that the sufferer thinks he is about to die, which is totally untrue!

Here’s a few FACTS about panic attack:

-Panic attack CANNOT cause heart attack

-Panic attack CANNOT cause suffocation

-Panic attack CANNOT make you faint

-Panic attack CANNOT cause you to go mad/crazy

Doesn’t feel like it? But its true! There more than enough medical evidence to prove all these. The symptoms feel unnatural because its a panic response from the body, your not suppose to feel it unless your in danger – which your not! Panic attack is the result of this “panic alarm” going off for the wrong reason. Use this knowledge to your advantage, KNOW that you are safe and panic attack cannot harm you. Don’t fear panic attack…and certainly don’t fear having one!

This article was presented by Panic Defence, the UK’s leading name in combating panic and anxiety. If you would like a free download with easy and effective tips to end panic, visit www.panichandbook.com now.



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Bertil Hjert asked:


A spontaneous panic attack is just that, it pops up, out of the blue, at a random time, in a random place. The problem with spontaneous panic attacks is that they create a great deal of uncertainty, leading to situational panic attacks.

If you have a panic attack in the nail salon, you then associate your susceptibility to panic attacks with being closed in and confined. Suddenly, you fear going to the hair salon, going to a concert, a sporting event or any place that doesn´t have an easy exit.

If you do happen to be exposed to one of these places you experience a panic attack or panicky sensations, not necessarily because you would have originally had a panic attack there, but because now you are in such a state of nervousness about exposure to that situation that you end up having a panic attack.

Suddenly the anxiety you feel about the situation you associate with an earlier, spontaneous panic attack is leading to panic attacks in similar conditions when you probably wouldn´t normally have one. 

Your anxious thoughts, nervousness and fear that you will find yourself in another situation causes you to talk yourself into such an anxious state that the fight or flight response is triggered leading to another panic attack which then enables you to further associate these situations with panic attacks, thus spiraling the association out of control. 

Things can start simply enough and then suddenly one day you wake up and you have a full blown phobia and don´t know how you got there. It´s the anxious talk that fuels the self-doubt and anxiety and we are going to put a stop to it!

End your negative physical and mental reactions to stress, exhaustion and anxiety through positive self talk and alterations in your lifestyle! A few simple changes to your life can help you be better prepared to confront the feelings present in panic attacks and you can train your mind to cope with anxiety so it either doesn´t trigger your fight/flight response or allows the rush to dissipate quickly. 

Think of bungee jumping or riding a rollercoaster. What an exhilarating yet terrifying experience all at the same time. Your heart races, your palms sweat, you catch your breath, you feel dizzy and confused yet you don´t panic. Why not? Many of the same physical reactions present in panic attacks are triggered by this insane leap of death or wild ride of fury. Why haven´t you had a panic attack? 

The answer is you know what you´re doing, you know when it´s going to end and you know it´s not life threatening if done properly. If you could accept these same facts about panic attacks, their power over you would diminish to such an extent you probably wouldn´t have one again.

The fear and anxiety fuel the panic reactions, once you remove that, the panic is gone. 

Skydiving, parasailing, bungee jumping, riding a roller coaster, or taking a plane flight may all trigger a little anxiety, that´s okay, anxiety is part of life. What´s important is that the little bit of anxiety you feel doesn´t develop into a high anxiety experience, thus, triggering a panic attack. 

The key to talking yourself off that ledge of panic is to accept that there is no real danger, so there is no real reason to panic. Once you accept this fundamental premise, it can help you control, manage and stop your panic attacks. 



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Panic Defence asked:


Evolution is the theory of natural selection. It is often referred to as survival of the fittest, but in truth it is the survival of those that are most adapted to their environment. On the great plains of Africa, for example, giraffes have evolved long necks in order to get first choice of the delicious leaves that are high up away from the other animals. Evolution occurs because in every species there is a degree of variation and over time the variants that are most suited to the environment are more likely to survive to the point that they can pass on their genes to the next generation. If we go back to our example then, in a family of giraffes two children will have slightly different length necks. If we say that the giraffe with the smaller neck has an 80% chance of surviving to the point where it can have children of its own then the giraffe with the slightly longer neck might have an 81% chance due to its slight advantage at reaching food in its environment. Then the children of that giraffe will have neck lengths that are a natural variation of the genes that were passed on. Over millions of years, this means that the giraffe’s neck would get longer and longer as a species. If the environment were to change then so would the course of the giraffe’s evolution.

So what were humans doing during this period? The earliest humans were carnivorous hunter-gatherers. The problem was that much of what we ate was very dangerous to catch. We had to survive in a harsh environment in which what we hunted also wanted to make us the hunted. There are various ways in which we evolved to adapt to this challenge. Some creatures evolved their own defences, such as spikes, claws or razor-sharp teeth. What we did instead was to become social beings. We hunted in packs and evolved ever more complex forms of communication and tools that enabled us to defeat our opponents. As the first creatures to reach this point of evolution, we were then able to dominate the planet with our own form of technology and organisation. That explains how we successfully became hunters, but now how we successfully avoided being the hunted.

To do that we would have needed a body that had a super-fast reaction to a perceived threat that enabled us to remove ourselves from danger before being attacked. This is what is called the fight or flight response or, to us, a panic attack. Natural variation meant that some humans were born with a better fight or flight response than others. Those that couldn’t panic fast enough simply had a lower chance of surviving to the point of passing on their genes. This is why panic disorders often run in families and why doctors believe that anxiety is to a large extent hereditary.

Over time the panic response became faster, more efficient and better adapted to our environment with all its potential dangers. At the immediate onset of a perceived danger, the body would launch itself into its panic response by shooting up the heart rate so that the body could take immediate high energy action, focusing the mind so that the individual was fully alert to the danger and could take decisive action and pause all non-urgent bodily functions, such as the processing of food, so that the body is fully devoted to the task of avoiding the danger. The latter also explains why people feel nauseous during a panic attack. At the same time, the body is being flooded with a store of hormones, particularly epinephrine, which gives us adrenaline. An important point to note at this stage is that this process can not be continued for a sustained period of time and so all panic attacks must come to an end sooner or later.

Humans of today can thank their ancestors for inheriting that function that continues to keep them out of danger. Of course, natural variation still exists today. There are giraffes with all kinds of different necks and there are also humans with different functioning panic responses. There are some people whose panic attacks do not work to the extent that they should do and this can cause problems for them in their life if they are ever faced with a potential danger. If you are walking through the jungle and come face to face with a hungry lion, it does not matter how much you want to get away from the lion because if your panic response is not up to scratch your body may not be able to escape the situation without launching into that mode.

On the other side of the spectrum of natural variation is you and me. Our panic attacks are too frequent and too intense for what is required. In earlier times when we were developing this ability as a species we would have been the strongest who evolution would have favoured, but now they are not suited to our environment. As a result, we say that we “suffer” from panic attacks and that we want to “get rid of them” or “beat them”, but is this what we really want? A panic disorder is a bit like a faulty smoke alarm. It is there for a very good reason, which is to protect you from danger, but now it is activating when there is no danger. So what do we do about it? Rarely do we say that we need to smash the smoke alarm or get rid of it completely, because we still want it to go off when the house has caught fire or we’ve simply burnt the toast. The purpose of this book therefore is not to stop your body from ever having the ability to enter into this state.  It is instead to improve the functioning of your panic response, so that the only time that you do experience them you are very grateful that you did in that situation.



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