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How to Control Anxiety Attacks – Fighting Your Fear
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Andrew Lim asked: Can you control anxiety attacks?
Many people describe anxiety attacks as a lightning bolt out of a clear blue sky due to the sudden onset of extremely uncomfortable symptoms. Their breathing become rapid, they start gasping for air while their heart starts pounding madly, they feel numb and dizzy. These symptoms can be so intense that they feeling like dieing – literally.
For most, anxiety attacks often occur without warning and with no apparent reason. A person who have no anxiety problems in his whole life may simply start to have one suddenly.
The main problems comes when anxiety attacks start interfering with normal daily activity. For instances, a person may never have difficulties shopping alone, taking a bus or eating in public when they unexpectedly have an “attack” during one of those situation. After that episode, he could be so traumatized by it that he start associating that situation with extreme anxiety and avoid it.
For others, the thought of being alone is enough to trigger another attack itself. They seek security in the company of others and is convinced that their personal safety depends on having someone nearby at all times.
I am sure you will agree that neither situation can be deemed acceptable.
The good new is that anxiety attacks can be controlled and stopped forever. The biggest hurdle is in understanding the myths and facts about anxiety attacks. A large part of their fear of anxiety attacks stem from the myths that it will kill them, which is totally untrue.
Myth: The attacks are caused by my medical problems.
Facts: Anxiety attacks are rarely caused by medical problems. The way you REACT to your medical problems can induce anxiety attacks.
Myth: Anxiety attacks causes me to have heart attack.
Facts: Unless you have an existing heart condition, such attacks DO NOT pose any threats to the heart. You CANNOT have a heart attack due to anxiety.
Myth: Anxiety attacks make me feel like dieing, which it will.
Facts: No matter how great that feeling is or how bad the symptoms are, it doesn’t change this fact – you are NEVER going to die from anxiety attacks.
Not convinced? Seek out the emergency room physician who have seen thousands of people who sincerely believes that they are going to die from anxiety attacks, NONE of them died when they left the hospital.
Do any of these myths applies to you?
To control anxiety attacks and stop it forever, you need to tackle its roots – fear. This irrational fear is the main culprit. The fear of having another anxiety attack, constantly dreading that it will happen again. Its this feeling that causes anxiety attack to occur again and again.
Know that anxiety attack cannot harm you. You feel like having a heart attack, you feel like fainting and dieing. But will it happen? NO! It NEVER happen. Convince yourself of this fact. Know that anxiety attack can never harm you and you have nothing to fear!
What Exactly is an Anxiety or Panic Attack???
An Anxiety Attack is a sudden feeling of intense panic or fear that comes on for no apparent reason. It will then possibly trigger severe physical reactions such as follows:
Shortness of Breath
Dizziness
Rapid heart rate
Sweating
Trembling
Hyperventilation
Faintness
Tightness in your throat
Trouble Swallowing
A sense or fear of impending death
An Anxiety Attack is often one of the scariest feelings that you can have. We never know when they will occur. They can happen at any time, any place and for any reason. Anxiety or Panic Attacks will usually have you thinking that you are losing control, having a heart attack, or maybe even dying. When sufferers are asked “What exactly does a panic attack feel like?” The best way that they have been able to describe it is this:
You are driving down the road in your car and somebody pulls out in front of you. You
swerve and narrowly miss them avoiding an accident.
NOW…after all this has happened, what do you feel? Adrenaline, heart pounding in
your ears, shortness of breath, ANXIETY & PANIC. These feelings are what a person having an anxiety or Panic Attack feels like, but, instead of the brief few seconds you feel it, these feelings will go on anywhere from a few minutes to sometimes hours for a person having a severe Anxiety or Panic attack.
Although panic attacks can significantly affect your quality of life, there are treatment
options available. Each person is unique and will need to figure out what course of
treatment is best for them.

