What Causes Panic Attacks?

"body">Again looking back and comparing the two peoples
The first is recognizing that stress has a significantlives you will probably find some astonishing
factor in what causes panic attacks. What you needdifferences.
to try to determine, is if this stress is an ongoing issueThe carefree person more than likely had a stable
that is deeply rooted in your thought process eitherhousehold with affectionate and loving parents and
consciously or subconsciously.never really experienced anything terrifying in their lives.
What I mean by that is often people grow up withThe other person may have had an unstable broken
generally feeling scared or fearful in everyday life. Thisfamily that did not show much love to their child and
could be caused by many deeply rooted factors suchthen this person went on to experience what they
as abandonment as a child by either parent, parents"perceived" as terrible experiences in comparison to
who never gave much love to their child at criticalthe other person in the stable family. This person also
development stages in their lives, or PTSD (postmay have had a life threatening experience that they
traumatic stress disorder) brought on by a terrifyingkept replaying in their mind over and over for years to
experience.come. Since this persons perception of fear that was
Have you ever noticed that some people have aingrained in their personality from the early onset of a
carefree response when confronted with an importantchild, will dramatically affect their future perceptions of
life decision, scary experience, or they have afear.
carefree outlook on life and generally don't seem toThe second cause of anxiety and panic attacks is the
get stressed out about too many things?immediate perception accompanied by physical
I believe this is hard wired into our personalities fromsymptoms triggered by years of ongoing thoughts to
both developmental stages of our lives as well as lifeactually cause a panic or anxiety attack.
experiences.Once you have your first panic attack its much easier
Then their are people who often overreact or becometo keep having them since you become fearful of the
extremely fearful or stressed out over the samepanic attack and its symptoms itself. In laymen terms
experiences as the person who had more of ayou start to fear, fear itself, causing the mental triggers
carefree personality.that can escalate your feelings and thought processes.
Why is this?