| A high level of general anxiety is the main cause | | | | human brain. As the attacks are a sum total of |
| behind anxiety attacks. Anxious thoughts trigger a | | | | feelings, symptoms and thoughts, they cannot be |
| feeling of acute panic which transcend intense physical | | | | termed as either a physical or a mental illness. While |
| trauma and adversely affect the behavioral pattern of | | | | the symptoms of anxiety attacks are undoubtedly |
| the concerned individual. Even before we begin with | | | | unpleasant, they are nonetheless normal and |
| the explanation of the basic anxiety attack symptoms, | | | | completely harmless in nature. It is interesting to note |
| we need to first understand that anxiety is not a | | | | that each individual has a different way of expressing |
| disease. It is a behavioral disorder which is different | | | | the feeling of anxiety. This is simply because we all |
| from normal human behavior. | | | | have different biological structures. Therefore we |
| It Is Not A Disease | | | | react in a unique fashion. |
| In medical terms, 'symptom' is referred to as a disease | | | | More Symptoms |
| or an illness but anxiety is not a disease. Anxiety is | | | | Common anxiety attack symptoms include pounding |
| often exhibited in the form of scary sensations as the | | | | of the heart, excessive sweating, shivering, shortness |
| sufferer is trying to fight a rational or irrational fearful | | | | of breadth, the development of a lump in the throat, |
| thought. Thereafter, it transforms into intense physical | | | | pain in the chest area, bloating of the abdominal wall, |
| sensations which are generally exhibited by excessive | | | | indigestion, acute discomfort in the abdominal region, |
| sweating, rapid heart beat, dry throat, shivering and a | | | | dizziness, pain in the muscles of the neck and the |
| strange "tingling" sensation. | | | | shoulders, hot flushes, sudden loss of skin color, |
| What Are The Basic Symptoms? | | | | disturbing thoughts, numbness in the body and the |
| Anxiety attack symptoms are in reality a byproduct of | | | | acute fear of loosing control. |
| the anxious nervous signals that are produced by the | | | | |