| Here, you'll learn how to identify the physical symptoms | | | | 'over the top' thus triggering your body's response. |
| of anxiety attacks and how to stop them naturally | | | | Your body is preparing you to fight or run away. But, |
| without drugs. Anxiety attack symptoms are horrifying, | | | | because you aren't aware of any physical danger, the |
| but once you know them for what they are, and what | | | | chemical and physical changes happening rapidly to |
| causes them, you'll be better placed to deal with them. | | | | you, manifest themselves in the symptoms of an |
| What Causes Anxiety Attacks? | | | | anxiety attack. |
| Anxiety attack, or panic attack, are the names given | | | | Typical symptoms are tightness across chest or |
| to the condition where a sufferer experiences a set of | | | | throat, racing heart, trembling, tingling extremities, |
| symptoms that appear suddenly from nowhere. These | | | | nausea, rapid and shallow breathing, hot and cold |
| are extremely frightening symptoms that are actually | | | | flashes, a 'detached from reality' feeling, a feeling of |
| the result of your body's natural, in-build protective | | | | imminent doom, etc. I can testify to just how terrifying |
| response to a 'perceived' threat. | | | | these symptoms can be. |
| For example, many thousands of years ago, when a | | | | How to Stop the Physical Symptoms of Anxiety |
| human was confronted with physical danger, the body | | | | Attacks |
| reacted by triggering extremely rapid chemical | | | | (1) Remember that they cannot harm you. They are |
| changes to occur in the brain, that caused numerous | | | | only your body's natural reaction to a threat that |
| physical changes in the body, in order to give the | | | | doesn't even exist! Bear this in mind at the onset of |
| person as much chance to survive as possible. | | | | the symptoms. |
| Heart rate, blood flow, vision, hearing, muscles, etc. | | | | (2) During an anxiety attack, your body's oxygen / |
| were all rapidly enhanced to allow humans to fight or | | | | carbon dioxide ratio is out of balance, partly due to |
| run away to their maximum ability. This is called the | | | | your shallow, rapid breathing. Re-balance this by |
| body's flight or flight response. | | | | regaining controlled breathing. Breath slowly and |
| How to Identify the Physical Symptoms of Anxiety | | | | rhythmically in through your nose and out through you |
| Attacks | | | | mouth. Re-breathing into a paper bag can help too. |
| Now, in the present day you're highly unlikely to be | | | | (3) Distraction is another technique that can help. You |
| faced with wild animals or other tribes trying to kill you, | | | | need to distract your mind from worrying about your |
| etc. So how come your body reacts in the way it | | | | symptoms as this only adds to your overall anxiety. |
| does? | | | | Talk to your friend or partner, focus on an object and |
| Remember, your body only needs to 'perceive' there is | | | | get as much information out of it as you can. |
| danger; it doesn't actually need to confirm it. Your body | | | | The Fear Factor Holding Your Recovery Back |
| doesn't want to react too slowly, nor does it want to | | | | There are many techniques for handling anxiety and |
| take a chance with your well-being, so it 'assumes' the | | | | anxiety attacks. But there is one critical issue that is |
| worst case scenario, and triggers the response. | | | | often overlooked. And that is your in-built fear, since |
| All this takes is for your anxiety levels to rise beyond a | | | | your last attack, of having another. And no wonder, |
| certain level. An anxiety or panic attack can occur in a | | | | anxiety attacks are so distressing. You can recognise |
| person who already has higher than normal levels of | | | | this fear for what it is or, it can be in your |
| anxiety or stress. | | | | subconscious. |
| For example, if you're in a period of your life where | | | | But this fear adds to your already high anxiety and |
| you're under daily stress and / or suffering from | | | | stress, so can push you over the edge once more into |
| general anxiety. All it takes is for you to be faced with | | | | another anxiety attack. You need to break out of this |
| an everyday stressful event, e.g. being stuck in rush | | | | cycle of anxiety / anxiety attack / fear / anxiety / |
| hour traffic, for that additional spike of stress to add to | | | | anxiety attack, etc. in order to prevent anxiety attacks |
| your already high anxiety levels and push your anxiety | | | | and eliminate your general anxiety. |