How to Avoid Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Living through an anxiety disorder can be horrifying! Anxiety, complete with its panic attacks, can be so overwhelming the sufferer doesn’t know where to turn because he or she thinks no one can possibly understand what he or she is going through. The sufferer even feels the family doctor would not understand.
It is normal for the sufferer to be hesitant to discuss this illness with anyone because he or she is often afraid of ending up feeling rejected or misunderstood. When this happens, anxiety sufferers often don’t know where to turn. So, they will look for anxiety cures without telling anyone. Surprisingly, they may find a cure by simply becoming familiar with how most forms of anxiety work.
Figuring Out Anxiety and Beating It At Its Own Game
A lot of people suffer from anxiety disorder and a lot of people have recovered from it. Unfortunately, most anxiety sufferers do not realize this disease is so widespread and because of this they are afraid to tell anyone. This only makes matters worse.
To overcome anxiety disorder the first thing the sufferer must realize is, anxiety and panic are adrenaline driven. So, it is actually adrenaline that causes the strange and disconcerting feelings which accompanies anxiety. The sufferer must also realize when he or she tries to fight these disconcerting feelings, more adrenaline is pumped through the bloodstream. So, overcoming anxiety actually requires accepting these awful adrenaline-produced feelings because fighting simply creates more adrenaline flow and so, more awful experiences.
The second part is when suffering anxiety, you must stop trying to run away from it. An anxious state is a state where a person is pumping adrenaline throughout the body. This adrenaline pumping is a body’s natural response to fear. When you are fearful, you are in a state of fight or flight. So, obviously, when you are fighting or running away, you are causing adrenaline to be pump out of control.
Winning the Fight By Giving Up
Not running away or fighting the symptoms of anxiety means you are fulling realizing these symptoms are occurring. So, to realize they are happening, studying the feelings anxiety and panic brings on is helpful because this is the opposite of fighting or running away. When we don’t fight anxiety and we don’t run away from it, we will not be adding any adrenaline to our bloodstreams. Therefore, we will not be manufacturing more frightful feelings anxiety is known for bringing on.
I say this with one caveat; if you are experiencing alarming sensations such as chest pains, don’t play around with them. See a medical professional who can administer the proper treatment for such a thing. He or she can tell you if anxiety/panic attack is what is bringing on the symptoms you are experiencing, or if it is something else.
Without Fear, Anxiety Cannot Survive
In conclusion, when an panic suffer learns how to prevent making the panic more intense, he or she is in recovery. The recovery won’t come overnight. However, the anxiety and panic will quickly lessen in severity because without additional fear of anxiety’s symptoms, adrenaline flow will be dying down instead of flaring up.
As this happens, the sufferer gains confidence the anxiety is losing its power over him or her. The cycle the sufferer will now be in will be less nervousness ” less fear of nervousness ” even less actual nervousness. As this cycle continues the anxiety disorder with its spells of panic attacks will become less and less severe and in time, non existent.