| Anxiety can make what would be a normal every day | | | | anxiety. Some are just every day symptoms that can |
| event for someone else a absolutely and totally | | | | occur for any reason. Yet, these things often occur in |
| horrifying experience for you. It presents itself as an | | | | combination in an anxiety attack. When they come |
| abnormal reaction of fear to a usual and normal | | | | together they can feeling overwhelming and make you |
| situation or event. You start the day out fine. Then, all | | | | actually feel that you are going to die. When they |
| of a sudden, something presents itself and your panic | | | | reoccur again and again you may find yourself |
| and fear rises. Your breathing quickens, you break out | | | | restricting your lifestyle so that you slowly become all |
| in a cold sweat, your heart pounds, and your chest | | | | but a prisoner in your own home, trying to avoid the |
| begins to hurt. You may actually feel like you are dying. | | | | situation, person, or event that triggers your anxiety. |
| This may be something you that has happened to you | | | | Certainly that is no way to live. The real solution is to |
| before. You may be able to deal with it and get | | | | seek treatment for the anxiety by addressing the |
| through it. But what if this is happening to you, or | | | | underlying cause. |
| someone you know, for the first time? Are you familiar | | | | Modern medicine has several anti-anxiety drugs to |
| with the symptoms of anxiety? Do you know what | | | | offer and if you are diagnosed with anxiety disorder |
| you can and should do to treat them? | | | | you may be prescribed drug treatment. But these |
| There are numerous symptoms of anxiety and panic | | | | drugs come with concerning side effects. Perhaps the |
| attacks and many of them can be confused with | | | | most serious possible effect is addiction, which |
| other conditions. Among the most common are: | | | | presents another problem; addiction can actually |
| headaches, sweating, chills, trembling, dizziness, | | | | increase the level or occurrence of anxiety. Counseling |
| hyperventilation, very rapid heart rate, muscle tension, | | | | and therapy can be helpful for some. Learning how to |
| and a feeling of loss of presence, known as | | | | cope with these feeling and emotions that can help |
| derealization. You might experience some or many of | | | | you conquer them. The ability to look at a situation |
| these things in an anxiety attack. | | | | differently and from a perspective other then defeat |
| Just by looking at the symptoms, you can easily see | | | | and fear of reoccurrence can help you alleviate your |
| how they might be confused as something other than | | | | anxiety. |