What Are The Causes of Anxiety Attacks and Can We Defeat Them?
One of the things about anxiety attacks that makes them so frightening is that they seem to come on so suddenly and without warning. Once the attack is taking place it can be so overwhelming it becomes all we think about and the rest of our life has to take a back seat until it has run it course.
Having feelings of being unreal or in another world are how many people describe anxiety attacks. Some even believe they are going out of their minds. However, anxiety sufferers are not going out of their minds. Anxiety is a condition where adrenaline is secreted through the bloodstream uncontrollably. It has nothing to do with insanity. Anxiety sufferers may have unreal feelings while they are having anxiety attacks, but actually, these people are usually normal and well adjusted.
This article speaks about what actually is happening when an anxiety or panic attack is occurring and also discusses how to prevent panic from occurring. Also, we discuss what to do that will help stop further panic attacks from starting.
Keeping it Loose
Most things in life don’t come easy. Because of this, we humans develop the habit of fighting for everything we get. This is only natural. Fighting for things is the way we are taught to survive. So, we fight very well. With anxiety disorder, fighting is counterproductive. So, is running away. When we start to experience the unreal feelings of anxiety we try to fight them or run away from them. This is normal, but it makes matters worse.
When we experience panic/anxiety, our body functions differently because of adrenaline. Because of the different way our body is functioning at this time we will feel things we normally don’t and usually, these feelings can be disconcerting. However, when we fight or run away from these feelings we bring on more unusual feelings and so we compound our misery.
Also, once a panic attack has come and left, it usually has left us so overwhelmed, we vow never to let one ever occur again. Taking this attitude is likely to keep us on edge thereby making the chance another one will come on even greater. However, when we don’t realize this we keep on fighting.
Doing this will often help intensify nervousness into panic. It is when we are constantly trying to prevent panic from ever returning we go through our day constantly tense in hope this will somehow prevent anxiety when actually, it is bringing it on.
Giving Up or, Passivity
The bottom line is, learning to give up fighting and stopping running away from panic is the key to gaining freedom from it. For a while after we give up fighting, panic will still visit us but it will quickly lose is sting as we accept it.
The more anxiety attacks with their panic and feelings of unreality are ignored or accepted the less they will dominate our lives. After total acceptance with no fighting whatsoever becomes our modus operandi, panic will leave us and we will never have to face it again. Of course, this attitude of acceptance does not happen immediately and has to be learned over time. Still, the learning period can be short once the theory of acceptance is understood.