How to stop these anxiety panic attacks?

January 27th, 2011

Dana M asked:


I’m only 15 and lately i’ve been experiencing really bad anxiety and panic attacks at school. I’ve been playing competitive soccer my whole entire life but for some reason now that I play for my school and people I know are watching me [friends] I start freaking out and getting REALLY nervous to the point where I throw up.. I don’t know what to do or how to calm myself down. Please help? :/

Robert

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How do I deal with Anxiety?

January 24th, 2011

guitar.girl asked:


I have anxiety problems and attacks. I need a safe way to deal with these. My family doesn’t believe in medicine for these types of things, and hardly believe they are real, they think they are just mind over matter things. Please help.

Norman

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can someone help me to get rid of short term anxiety attacks?

December 14th, 2010

A I asked:


i have short term anxiety attacks and dont want any meds. does anyone have any GOOD suggestions?

BOB

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Anxiety Attacks – Dealing With Your Anxiety Is To Reduce Your Anxious Thoughts!

November 12th, 2010

Bertil Hjert asked:




The best approach to dealing with your anxiety is to reduce your anxious thoughts. In other words don’t worry, be happy. While this is a very simple statement and a simple concept, it can be very difficult to achieve. 

There are powerful roadblocks in your way and you have to work to avoid them and break them down so you can stay on the happy path. Rather than sitting and endlessly fretting over your problems take proactive action. If you are upset about money, develop a budget, formulate a career change, go back to school, or look for promotion opportunities. 

There are things you can do to work towards eliminating and reducing your worries. Moreover, while you’re working and making plans, you won’t have time to worry.  Productivity does a lot to ease the mind. This approach applies to worries in the family, relationships and a lot of the others that may consume your daytime thoughts. 

You can control your panic attacks, fears and phobias. The body is naturally able to restore itself to normal after an adrenaline seeking an event. You just have to learn how to activate your body’s own resources. Going on a scary rollercoaster, bungee jumping, skydiving, these are all high adrenaline producing events. These thrill seekers actually enjoy the adrenaline coursing through their bodies. 

The difference between them and the average panic attack or anxiety sufferer is that they are able to quickly disassociate from the scary event. Once the skydive, bungee jump or rollercoaster is over, the fear is over and the body can engage the parasympathetic nervous system to release calming and soothing chemicals to relax the body. Your heart slows down and your lungs breathe deeper. You can activate your own parasympathetic nervous system. 

When anxiety becomes overwhelming and interferes with your day to day activities you have probably developed Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD. GAD makes you miss appointments, meetings, and other activities because you avoid them until they are missed entirely.

For people suffering from GAD, avoidance becomes a way of life. Are you nervous about going to that job interview? Well you delay, procrastinate and avoid until you miss the appointment entirely.

 While some people may understand the nervousness in this particular situation, what about your child’s school play? You’re so nervous about sitting in a crowded room, that you make excuses, procrastinate and avoid until your spouse and child come home wondering where you were. 

GAD can interfere with every part of your life and affect your personal relationships. When you have GAD, you worry constantly, about everything and anything. 

The first step in dealing with GAD is to relax. Easier said than done, huh? The first step in relaxing is training yourself to breathe. Breathing is an integral part of controlling the sensations that occur during panic or anxiety attacks. Often, when you’re anxious, you hold your breath. You may not even realize you’re doing it. By letting go and breathing deeply, it will help to increase the oxygen flow and loosen the tension that is building in your body. 

Whether you are a panic attack, a generalized anxiety or a phobia sufferer, you can teach your body to relax and calm itself. The first step in relaxing your body and engaging your parasympathetic nervous system is to breathe deeply. There are exercises you can do and classes you can take that will help you focus on your breathing and relaxing individual muscle groups throughout your body. 

Anxiety causes muscle tightness and tension. The simple act of loosening the tightness your body feels as a result of this can go a long way towards eliminating anxious feelings.

Positive-Thought-RedirectionTM is a powerful technique for dealing with anxious thoughts. That technique will be introduced in the free report you can download here.



Ronesha

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Causes of panic attacks- Find out the root of your panic disorder!

November 9th, 2010

R Kusuma asked:




Do you suffer from panic attacks and you don’t know what causes it? There are lots of things that can trigger panic and anxiety attacks. It is regarded as a malfunction  of of an appropriate response. Or better say something that result different than expect it.

The human body and mind reacts normally with axiety and panic to some dangers or threat. This is normal and it is what keeps the humans active in fighting those. Yet, it is not normal when this sentiment of panic danger becomes a panic attack. For example, some people will feel panic to make a phone call, even though this does not pose any threat to the person. This is what is called a panic attack.

Some of the panic attacks causes are:

hereditary – as strange you may feel, actually panic and anxiety attacks are hereditary. If someone from your family have, you are more prone to get them; diet- you can get panic disorder if you have improper diet, especially a deficiency in vitamin B or parasitic infection of your digestive tract; phobias- even though phobias are a result of panic disorder, some people simply are born with these phobias; significant life changes- experiencing a life loss, or other major changing in your life(death, marriage, break up,etc.) can act as a trigger to your panic attacks; consuming alcohol, drugs, caffeine, nicotine; certain medications do get you panic disorder. Always check the side-effects with your doctor before taking drugs(Ritalin); some illnesses can be the cause of your panic attacks: hypoglycemia, hyperthyroidism, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and many others.

You can get rid of panic attacks by following a program that changes the way you think and deal with negative thoughts. Also, if they are caused by you illness than you have to treat the cause of it.



Haoying

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Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Anxiety Attacks

October 10th, 2010

Tom Sample asked:




Anxiety attacks are normal reactions to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles.

These physical reactions are appropriate for escaping from danger but when they cause anxiety in many situations throughout the day, they may be detrimental to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety disorder is a disorder where feelings of fear, apprehension, or anxiety are disruptive or cause distortions in behavior.

At times, an underlying illness or disease can cause persistent anxiety. Treatment of the illness or disease will stop the anxiety. Anxiety illnesses affect more than 23 million Americans with about 10 million Americans suffering from the most common, general anxiety disorder.

Panic attacks can begin with a feeling of intense terror followed by physical symptoms of anxiety. A panic attack is characterized by unpredictable attacks of severe anxiety with symptoms not related to any particular situation. The person experiencing the attack may not be aware of the cause.

Symptoms include four or more of the following: pounding heart, difficulty breathing, dizziness, chest pain, shaking, sweating, choking, nausea, depersonalization, numbness, fear of dying, flushes, fear of going crazy. Heredity, metabolic factors, hyperventilation, and psychological factors may contribute to anxiety causing panic attacks.

Panic disorder tends to run in families with first degree relatives of patients having four to seven times greater risk than the general population. Hyperventilation (rapid shallow breathing) can cause a decrease in carbon dioxide in the blood. This decrease in carbon dioxide has been associated with anxiety. Anxiety can be caused by psychological factors as well.

One theory is that there is an unconscious conflict between certain wishes and desires, and guilt associated with these desires. Another theory is that certain fearful childhood situations provoke anxiety later. This later theory has been associated with agoraphobia in that the fear of being abandoned in the past may lead to fear of public places.

Panic disorder is treated with drugs, cognitive- behavior therapy and other forms of psychotherapy, and/or a combination of the two. Relaxation therapy is also used in combination with other treatments.

Anxiety disorders oftentimes cannot be linked to specific life events and persist for months if not years at a time. Many people with anxiety disorders can be helped with treatment. Most of the medications which are prescribed are started at low doses and tapered off when treatment is near an end.

Side effects generally become tolerated or diminished with time. Behavioral therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy can be effective for treating several of the anxiety disorders. Behavioral therapy focuses on changing specific actions and uses different techniques to alter unwanted behavior.

Techniques include special breathing exercises and exposure therapy – gradually exposing patients to what frightens them and helps them cope with their fears. Cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches patients to react differently to the situations and bodily sensations that trigger panic attacks and other anxiety symptoms. Patients also learn to understand how to change their thoughts so that symptoms are less likely to occur. These techniques are designed to help people confront their fears. Without treatment, anxiety attacks can be extremely disabling and disrupt family, work and social relationships.



Mary

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Cause for Anxiety Disorder – Why Do Anxiety Panic Disorders Really Happen?

September 23rd, 2010

Steve A Madigan asked:




What exactly is anxiety? There are some questions we must ask ourselves first. Do you ever experience the unnecessary fears and then have a fast heartbeat or even difficulty breathing? Do you ever daydream or imagine something bad is going to happen? Do you get worried and think about one of your loved one’s death or maybe even a feeling or sense of doom is going to happen? Do you panic when you are faced with a new problem or you are in a new situation? Do you become afraid or think you are going crazy? There are other questions that we can but if you have answered yes to these questions above then you may be suffering from anxiety disorder or possibly even getting “anxiety attacks”.

Cause for anxiety disorder

Most people are going to experience fear and anxiety when in certain situations. This is really quite normal. Fear is an emotional and behavioral response. It recognizes some type of external threat and kicks into play.

Now on the other hand anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state. This anxiety has a much less clear source of why it occurs. And with this being the case, anxiety will indicate the presence of a psychological conflict.

What is the difference between panic and anxiety

Panic and anxiety are two totally different things. But yet they are interrelated. Panic is a set of or even intense response to a normal thought or sensation. Panic can often be accompanied by a feeling of some type of doom is going to occur. There are also physical symptoms of panic which are: a rapid heartbeat or feels like your heart is pounding, sweating, shaking and there are others.

Anxiety on the other hand is really a psychological condition. This condition is made worse by the prolonged thought processes that occur. Anxiety can cause other problems like phobias, such as agoraphobia. Agoraphobia occurs when a condition develops of self preservation avoidance. Meaning a person is a fear of leaving their controlled environment.

Now every person has a certain level or a threshold that he or she is able to handle a situation or be in control of the situation. There are some people however who have a low threshold. This could be due to some type of genetic makeup or it could be due to possibly a past experience. If this person is pushed past the threshold level, this person is going to feel stressed or possibly overwhelmed. When this occurs you could easily develop or fall into anxiety attacks. Visit our website to learn more on the cause of anxiety disorders.

We don’t know or are not really absolutely sure of what will cause an anxiety disorder. You may be among one of so many other people who suffer from “anxiety attacks”. There are many reasons on why people get these. When the anxiety attack does occur it is really your response to stress or a stressful situation.

This stress can occur due to a breakup in a relationship, could also be due to lifestyle that the person leads or has been forced to lead. Stress can even occur when you are exposed to some life-threatening problem or even disaster. There is an answer and make your on how to control the stress, visit our site and learn more about anxiety disorder symptoms.

Natural remedies for panic attacks

The real problem is though, that for anxiety disorders to occur it will take time. This can sometimes be a long period of time. It can take days, months, or even years to develop. anxiety disorder and will present none were sometimes very few symptoms, until the disorder has developed fully.

If you would like to learn more about what the cause for anxiety disorders are, please come and visit our website. At our website you are also going to learn a cure for anxiety disorders and even panic attacks. So if you are suffering from any of the items listed above, or you think you may be having some type of panic disorder or anxiety disorder please come to our site and learn more.



Colleen

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Could my hormones be causing me to have anxiety/panic attacks?

September 3rd, 2010

kdhiggs05 asked:


I had a hysterectomy a yr ago in June, but I still have my ovaries. I have been getting anxiety/panic attacks since april. I have had my thyroid checked and it is fine. I am wondering if my hormones are going crazy, would that cause panic attacks?

TERRY

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Where does social anxiety and panic attacks come from?

September 2nd, 2010

vetalklas asked:


Where does social anxiety and panic attacks come from?
Why did I started having them about 3 years ago? What are some
things that can cause them? I think first I had social anxiety,than after a while I started having panic attacks. And after unable to socialize with people normally and started having agorophobia which lead to depression. But where did social anxiety came from what caused it? What could be the factors?

GLENDA

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How do you handle anxiety attacks?

August 30th, 2010

Freckles asked:


Lately, I have been having anxiety attacks a lot. I know the cause. My mind is on overload. I am thinking about stuff that needs to get done, appointments that need to made and kept and all kinds of stuff. For the past month I just can’t seem to clear my mind and I find myself unable to catch my breath, heart racing, light headed and sick to my stomach. I can’t be a bundle of nerves anymore.
What can I do?

Marilee

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