Anxiety Is A Risk
Written by Rene A Lacape   
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 06:09
In the realm of survival of the fittest, response to danger is naturally an instinct of humans in the presence of risks or threats. Fighting to stay safe or escaping to safety are responses that the body and mind will react either way as determined by the mind to be a better alternative for survival. This fight or flight response comes about due to flows of adrenaline that allows the body muscles to react quickly to the danger situation. While these feelings are normally temporarily in nature, the excess adrenaline can remain in the body leading to panic attacks.
by ReneALacape


In the realm of survival of the fittest, response to danger is naturally an instinct of humans in the presence of risks or threats. Fighting to stay safe or escaping to safety are responses that the body and mind will react either way as determined by the mind to be a better alternative for survival. This fight or flight response comes about due to flows of adrenaline that allows the body muscles to react quickly to the danger situation. While these feelings are normally temporarily in nature, the excess adrenaline can remain in the body leading to panic attacks.

What are panic attacks? Panic attacks are marked by persistent and chronic condition of fear and dread. Feeling of fear is itself a natural emotion, however, panic attacks because fear that is exaggerated and overwhelming that can be provoked in absence of any dangers or threats at all. The attacks cannot be explained in terms of its cause - that is, production of adrenaline and changes in hormones that accelerate the body functioning to deal with danger - as there are no rational reasons for the occurrence of panic attacks at all. The impact of the attack is severe and hardly anything can stop it from happening.

Several physical symptoms of panic attacks can be identified which include heart racing, pounding or skipping heartbeat, tightness or discomfort in chest region, choking sensation, sweatiness, shaking and trembling, butterflies and nausea, hot flashes or chills, numbness in certain parts of the body, erratic breathing or shortness of breath, dizziness, light-headedness and so forth. The psychological emotions felt by these victims can be very damaging and frightening that they, who suffer panic attacks, can feel that they are dying or losing their minds. Things seem unreal to them or may even feel that they are detached from their bodies while some are so fearful that they must escape and flee the situation altogether.

In fact, the symptoms mentioned above are the sensations and feelings that one experiences whenever they are facing impending threats or dangers. As reinstated earlier, these symptoms occur to sufferers of panic attacks in circumstances without presence of danger even in safe environment and under no logical explanation. There is no surprise at all that the panic attack can occur even when the victim is at sleep.

Panic attacks cannot or difficult to stop when it attacks and they normally happen without any potential signals or predictions. This is because the excessive level of hormones imbalances and adrenalines that flood the body and muscles causes such extreme terror and desperation that are so beyond the grasp of the actual situation. It is therefore not only necessary but compulsory to attempt to control the exaggerated emotions of fear using different appropriate means of treatments.

The sudden surge of overwhelming fear that is experienced by the person hit with panic attack can be so extreme and devastating that even few minutes into the attack feels like forever to him or her.

The surreal experience and sheer terror of the panic attacks almost defy description in the sense that they are so intense that the disorder will plague the person forever. Frightened to be judged as crazy by other people, some victims choose to keep silent about their symptoms. Others decide to take control of their life so that their lives can be free of these terrifying attacks. Everyone deserves the latter to relive their quality and attacks-free life by putting in little effort and time to gain education of the attack and seek treatment with a professional doctor and jump start on a successful treatment course.

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