Dealing with Anxiety Panic Attacks
If you suffer from anxiety & panic
attacks, clearly understand that you are not alone! You’re
not even one in a million. In America, it is estimated
that almost 5% of the population suffer from some form of
anxiety disorder. This figure corresponds across the
western world making it one of the biggest medical issues
across the world. So how are you dealing with Anxiety
Panic Attacks?
For some, it’s the infrequent panic attacks that occur only
in particular situations-like when making presentations, , for
other people, it is so frequent and recurring that it inhibits
there normal life style. Frequent panic attacks often develop
into what medical physicians refer to as an “anxiety
disorder.”
Currently there are many ways of dealing with anxiety panic
attacks. Some may not work for you, others might. Knowing some
of the more common coping techniques for dealing with anxiety
panic attacks when they begin is very important if you are to
control the attack, before it fully develops..
Step one is to recognize when a panic attack is about to
begin. When you have endured enough of them, you start to
understand and pay attention to the early sensation, the
shortness of breath, and the disconnection from the real life
around you. Exercising control at this point can stop the
attack in its infancy.
Many people have limited understanding of what this
disconnection feeling is like. They have a hard time
understanding any explanation of it. To those who have panic
attacks its all too familiar. It’s like you can look at a solid
object and see that it is there. You know it’s there, but a
part of your mind doubts that it really IS there.
You often reach out to touch that object just to be sure. You
feel disconnected with the world around you. It’s as if you are
just a spectator in your own life with no control over anything
around you.
This is a horrible feeling that must be experienced to be
fully understood.
What can you do to begin combating your panic attacks? the key
to ending panic and anxiety attacks is to WANT to have one.
Seams strange, even contradictory, doesn’t it? But this wanting
really does help push it away as we will explain below.
Does this mean that you should train yourself to be able to
bring on a panic attack at any moment? Absolutely not! What it
means is if you are afraid of something - in this case a panic
attack - it’s more likely to appear with all the consequences.
When you stand up to the attack, your chances of fending it off
are much greater.
If you resist based on fear, the fear around that issue will
persist. How do you stop resisting-you step into the path of
the anxiety, and by doing so it cannot persist. Our body
responds to danger by either flight from the scene or to fight.
Facing the threat takes you from flight back to fight.
What this means is that if you daily voluntarily seek to
have a panic attack, your unlikely to have one. Try to induce a
panic attack and I will guarantee you cannot. You may not
realize it but you have always decided to have the panic
attack. You confirm the choice by saying this is beyond my
control either consciously or sub-consciously.
Another way to look at this is to imagine having a panic
attack as like standing on a cliff's edge. The anxiety
seemingly takes you closer to going over the edge. To be beat
the fear you must metaphorically jump. You must leap off the
cliff edge into the anxiety and fear and all the things that
you fear most.
So how do you actually make this jump? You jump by wanting
to have a panic attack. You go about your day asking for
anxiety and panic attacks to appear.
Your real safety is the fact that a panic attack cannot harm
you. That is a medical fact. The sensations are harsh and may
be prolonged for some, but no harm will come to you. Your heart
will be racing, breathing will be difficult and you will feel
detached. You will remain unharmed as your body cannot kill you
even if it feels like it can. The jump becomes nothing more
than a mental drop! It’s perfectly safe.
Anxiety causes an imbalance whereby all of the mental worry
creates a top-heavy sensation. All of your focus is moved from
the center of your body to the head. With this the body can
lose its sense of center.
I recomend that you read the second part to this article
The
Key to Overcoming Anxiety Panic Attacks.
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Is anxiety interfering
with your daily life, such that you wake up
each day fearful of how the day will be
like?
If
you answer yes, then I strongly recommend that
you check out The Panic
Away Program by Joe
Barry.
You can finally be free
from the destructive effects of anxiety and
panic attacks and stress.
You won't believe how
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