Anxiety Attacks Symptoms
To anyone who has suffered an anxiety attack, with all its accompanying symptoms, the notion that these very symptoms might lead to recovery must sound absolutely absurd – but just think about it, what if your anxiety attacks symptoms really could help you?
Anxiety Attacks Symptoms
An anxiety attack really is one of the most terrifying, confusing and uncontrollable episodes someone can suffer. One second everything is seemingly fine and the next, for no apparent reason, your whole world is falling apart. There are numerous symptoms which can occur during an attack. Physically, you may feel a tightening in the throat and feel unable to breathe properly; your chest may start to hurt as your heart beat races, you may become dizzy as if you are about to faint, you could experience sudden chronic fatigue and have a ‘falling’ sensation as if you are about to drop to the floor even though you aren’t.
While mentally, you experience heightened fears and anxieties – you may feel like you’re dying and are losing control with an impending sense of doom or perhaps you have a constant feeling of being overwhelmed and develop a fear of being seen in public. The list seems practically endless as each person who suffers these attacks will have their own take on their own personal situation.
This is where, perhaps, you can take some control back and help yourself on the road to recovery.
How They Can Lead You To Recovery
An anxiety attack can happen anytime and any place yet once it has happened your body subconsciously remembers it. The next time you’re in the same situation e.g. returning to the same place, maybe a restaurant or an elevator, it is possible you will start to feel anxious and panicky, fearing the same thing will happen again.
Remember knowledge is power. Knowing this is a symptom that happens to you, it is possible to work on this and change your own way of thinking. If you visualize that you cannot cope in this situation then your body will react in the only way it knows how and the fear and anxiety will return. If, however, you train your mind to change those visualizations and think in a positive way instead, it will stop your body responding to the alarms that your mind used to send. If you can waylay anticipatory anxiety fears then you’ve almost won the battle!
Take another example. If you know that you hyperventilate on the run up or during an attack then it is worthwhile practicing some breathing and relaxation techniques. Hyperventilation caused by anxiety makes you change the rate and pattern of breathing which in turn alerts the body to react and again you enter the never ending panic cycle. If you can slow this down, by trying to breathe in a calm and relaxed manner, the resulting excruciating symptoms will be reduced. You may even stop the attack altogether.
So examine the symptoms that happen to you and work out a positive approach to them. It’s not easy by any manner of means but it is something that is worthwhile trying.
