| Causes of anxiety attacks, in which the sufferer | | | | often considered beyond the scientific paradigms and |
| suddenly feels a great trembling fear without warning, | | | | boundaries. Spiritual-related anxiety stems from a |
| are varied. Anxiety attacks find their causes rooted in | | | | feeling of emptiness, a void, and a sort of nothingness; |
| psychodynamic, behavioral and spiritual causes. This is | | | | and is centered on morality, life and death. Spiritual |
| further evidenced by increased external and internal | | | | masters say that it is not anxiety that these people |
| stresses. When stresses exceed beyond a level that | | | | reach, rather higher state of consciousness. |
| one can normally cope up with, anxiety results. | | | | A number of other factors can also act as causes for |
| At a psychodynamic level, it is mostly internal instincts | | | | anxiety that include genetic, biologic and medical. A |
| and impulses that conflict each other, leading to | | | | number of studies have indicated that at least in 50% |
| distress. | | | | of those experiencing anxiety, have a close relative |
| At a behavioral level, a person relates to past | | | | who has an anxiety disorder. Among the biologic |
| experiences and situations often in a maladaptive | | | | causes, variations in certain brain chemicals like |
| manner, considering them a benchmark to future | | | | serotonin, norepinephrine, and GABA are being |
| situations. Such responses to the past become | | | | investigated as having a link with anxiety. |
| generalized even if the future may be drastically | | | | Among medical causes of anxiety disorders, the chief |
| different and better. | | | | causes are heart disease, tumors, endocrine disorders, |
| The spiritual causes of anxiety are a topic of debate -- | | | | neurological diseases and infections. |