| There are many people in the world who suffer | | | | |
| from some form of anxiety and for these | | | | These psychological defenses include |
| people these anxiety attacks may be mild or | | | | repressing anxious thoughts or ideas out of |
| they could be very severe. While there are | | | | the conscious awareness. Another anxiety |
| many ways of treating anxiety attacks, it's | | | | attack symptom is where the sufferer will |
| first important to identify what your anxiety | | | | transfer the source of their anxiety to an |
| attack symptoms are. | | | | object or an event. Phobias are an example of |
| | | | this anxiety attack transference. Then there |
| There are the physical symptoms of anxiety | | | | are the times that a person who suffers from |
| attacks that manifest themselves in the form | | | | anxiety attacks will rationalize their |
| of headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, | | | | anxious feelings by claiming that ordinary |
| nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, | | | | people would feel the same way were they |
| tingling, pale complexion, numbness, | | | | placed in the exact situation. |
| difficulty in breathing, and sensations of | | | | |
| tightness in the chest, neck, shoulders and | | | | The other method that the brain will use as a |
| or hands. These reactions are the body's | | | | defense against anxiety attacks manifests |
| fight-or-flight reaction which involves the | | | | itself in the form of physical complaints and |
| hormones, muscles and the heart. | | | | illnesses. In this case the anxiety attack |
| | | | symptoms involve recurrent headaches, an |
| The behavioral anxiety attack symptoms | | | | upset stomach, and muscle and joint pains. |
| include pacing, trembling, general | | | | |
| restlessness, hyperventilation, pressured | | | | Delusions are one other way of the brain |
| speech, wringing of the hands, and even | | | | trying to defend the sufferer from the |
| finger tapping. Then the cognitive anxiety | | | | anxiety attacks. For these anxiety attack |
| attack symptoms include recurrent or | | | | symptoms the person can formulate conspiracy |
| obsessive thoughts, feelings of doom, and | | | | theories or other similar scenarios. This |
| morbid thoughts of death, confusion or the | | | | gives the person an emotional outlet for |
| inability to concentrate. | | | | their feelings of anxiety. |
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| The emotional anxiety attack symptoms can | | | | It doesn't really matter what form these |
| include feelings of tension or nervousness, | | | | symptoms show themselves in. What's really |
| feeling agitated, overwrought, and feelings | | | | important is once you identify that these are |
| of unreality, panic, or even terror. Then | | | | signs of anxiety attacks that you seek and |
| there are also the anxiety attack symptoms | | | | receive help and treatment for this |
| where the person's brain puts up a defense | | | | condition. By catching these anxiety attack |
| mechanism against the anxiety attacks. | | | | symptoms early you have a chance to stop it |
| | | | progressing to a more severe condition like |
| Feelings of depression can also occur because | | | | agoraphobia where you may become housebound |
| of this excessive stress that we need to cope | | | | due to your excessive anxiety attacks. So |
| with. While there are therapies and | | | | don't delay if you feel that you suffer from |
| medications that can deal with full blown | | | | anxiety attack symptoms, go see a qualified |
| anxiety disorders, you might want to practice | | | | medical practitioner as soon as possible and |
| a few techniques for coping with anxiety and | | | | get the proper help. |
| stress. | | | | |