What Causes An Anxiety Panic Attack?
Many people wonder what it’s like to endure an anxiety panic attack. In reality, there are varying levels of panic attacks and no two people will have exactly the same symptoms. Not every attack will be the same either. Sometimes it is a general sense of anxiety, while other times it feels like full-blown terror. Major sufferers of anxiety attacks symptoms deal with this to varying degrees their entire lives.
The symptoms of a mini anxiety panic attack starts with muscle tension, nausea, loss of concentration, irregular nose breathing and strange worries. Is your hair falling out? Why is your vision blurry? At the next stage of a disorder panic attack, you will be unable to sit still, you begin jittering around neurotically and you begin feeling overwhelmed. At these levels, Xanax will usually take away the edge, as will turning off anything making loud sounds, breathing deeply and putting a cold compress on your forehead. Perhaps half the time, you’ll slip into a full-blown panic attack and you will feel dizzy and faint, your fight-or-flight response kicks in, the attack anxiety feels worse than ever before, panic waves radiate through the body and you can’t sit still. In the worst case scenario, a monster panic attack sets in and you feel the overwhelming need for a hospital. You speak rapidly, cry, grind your teeth, shake uncontrollably and feel heat waves up and down your body. Sometimes two Xanax will help within 90 minutes but it’s an agonizing time that will zap your energy for days.
An anxiety panic attack is sometimes hard to delineate from normal stress or anxiety. Naturally, when we think of a loved one dying, losing a job, breaking up with a partner or getting into an argument with someone, we’re going to feel charged up with adrenaline, morose and sometimes out of control. Our body’s natural response to stress is to speed up that heart rate, transmit messages around the body at an alarming rate and cause the sweat glands to open up. However, normal anxiety becomes a problem when there is seemingly no trigger at all; when we begin to avoid certain people, places or things we deem as triggers; when we become socially withdrawn; and when physical problems like nausea, heart palpitations, hyperventilating and chest pain occur.
You may have an anxiety panic attack in your sleep, which comes about spontaneously. Or you may have a cued panic attack based on a certain place or situation, such as an elevator, enclosed spaces or public places. Regardless, it is important that you learn to stop panic by mastering control over your thoughts and body processes. You are not dying or going crazy. You have complete control over what happens to you. With the right tricks, tools and techniques picked up through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and panic attack medication, you’ll be ready for any negative thoughts or sensations that come your way.