Anxiety Attack
Anxiety attack may affect your quality of life if not given
treatment immediately
As a human
being, it is normal that we feel anxious, worried, and fears from
time to time due to the things that our complicated lives bring.
Anxiety is just a part of life. It helps us cope with the stresses
we may encounter. If you are in a state of anxiety, it is likely
that you experience anxiety attack.
Anxiety attack
is a sudden surge of overwhelming fear that comes without warning
and without any apparent reason and this would usually last for no
more than 10 minutes. It is far more intense than having anxiety or
the feeling of being stressed out. One in every 75 people worldwide
will experience an anxiety attack at one point in his/her life.
Most anxiety
sufferers report fear of dying, going crazy or losing control of
emotions as well as behavior. The incidents generally provoke a
strong urge to escape or run away from the place where the attack
begins, and they are associated with chest pain or shortness of
breath, and feeling of impending doom
A person with a
phobia will often experience an anxiety attack as a direct result to
the hung-up trigger. These anxiety attacks are brief and quickly
relieved once the trigger is escaped. In the conditions of chronic
anxiety, one anxiety attack can usually turn into another one,
leading to a nervous fatigue over a period of days.
An anxiety
attack has symptoms that often occur suddenly without any apparent
cause. The symptoms can be as follows”
 | Pounding
heartbeat, generally faster in nature |
| Increased
sweating |
| Dizziness,
lightheadedness, nausea |
| Difficulty
breathing |
| Tingling
and/or numbness in the face |
| Dreamlike
sensations or perceptual distortions (de-realization) |
|
Disassociation, the perception that one is not connected to the
body and time. |
| Fear of
losing control and doing something embarrassing |
| Fear of
dying |
| Feeling of
impending doom |
| Crying,
associated to the above symptoms |
Anxiety attack
usually last for several minutes and is considered one of the most
disturbing condition that anyone can live through in everyday life.
The way to understand the different symptoms of anxiety attack is:
first, comes the sudden jolt of fear with less or no triggering
motivation, and then this will lead to a release of adrenaline
(epinephrine), which causes the supposed fight-or-flight response,
where the person’s body prepares for major physical activity. This
results to an increased heart rate, labored breathing or
hyperventilation, and sweating. The diaphragm, involved in the
action of the lungs, is also a muscle and it can become overly
tight. When there is continuous, inferior anxiety, a person
frequently works too hard when breathing. However, if there is
hyperanxiety or an anxiety attack, there is overwhelming excitement,
and a person may hyperventilate.
Because
strenuous activity hardly ever arises, the hyperventilation leads to
carbon dioxide levels lowering in the lungs and then the blood,
resulting to the shift in the pH of the blood, which will then lead
to many of the other symptoms, such as tingling or numbness,
dizziness, and lightheadedness.
Anxiety attack
is a serious condition, but before you start thinking if you have
this condition and go running to see a doctor, stop and take a deep
breath! Relax before you start having an anxiety attack, even if you
actually don’t have it. Don’t take things too hard for it may lead
to something serious and may affect your daily routine. Take things
lightly. In any case, if you think you have this condition, the
first thing you should do is see a doctor. If you are diagnosed with
anxiety attack condition, appropriate medication and good counseling
can bring your life to normal again. Otherwise, tell yourself to
relax and continue to live your life to the fullest.
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