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Anxiety Attacks
For those of us who suffer with anxiety attacks, we know what it feels like. Our heart pounds. We get butterflies in our stomach. We worry and fret over everything and anything. We have hot and cold sweats. Our throats go dry and we have difficulty swallowing, just to name a few.
If you are experiencing any of the above, then you may well be suffering with anxiety attacks.
Anxiety attacks can occur out of the blue. I have spoken with plenty of people who have said “my life is great; I don’t understand why I am suddenly suffering with anxiety attacks”. This is the nature of the beast. There is no designated format for anxiety attacks. They can transpire to people whose lives are going really well, as well, as those who lives are not going so well.
This is why anxiety attacks are so difficult to diagnose. It’s not like having a cold or some other illness, where there symptoms are typical and easy to make out and diagnose.
Understanding what anxiety attacks are will help you to have more control. It’s normal to worry and feel tense or anxious when under burden or facing a stressful situation. Anxiety is the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when we feel threatened.
With my personal experience off living with anxiety attacks, I am alert of the fact that the more you think about the anxiety the deeper ingrained the symptoms become. The stronger the symptoms, the stronger the anxiety attacks become. Then you’re in the realms of a viscous circle. This is when it becomes really tough to over come these anxiety attacks.
It’s not till you really become aware of the fact that your thoughts have created your anxiety, so it stands to reason that if you have created the anxiety attack then surely you can UN-create the anxiety attacks. This part is really hard for people to understand. And I know exactly how they think! When I was told this, I rejected it. Why would I want to do this to myself? It did not make sense.
But at the end of the day no matter how much I tried to pay no attention to that fact, it was right, my thoughts where the root of my anxiety. I experimented with it. The more I focused my energy on the anxiety the stronger my anxiety attack became. So with the help of a therapist, I was able to work on my thoughts and beat my anxiety.
I am not anxiety free, however I am able to prevent my anxiety before it becomes a full blown anxiety attack.
One more thing to bear in mind, is that anxiety may be unpleasant, but it isn’t always a unpleasant thing. In fact, anxiety can help us stay alert and focused, spur us to action, and provoke us to solve problems. But when anxiety is constant or overpowering, when it interferes with our relationships and activities-that’s when you’ve crossed the line from normal anxiety into the territory of anxiety disorders.
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