Physical symptoms of anxiety attacks

Before I talk about the symptoms I would like to tell you that although the symptoms of an anxiety attack are physical, you dont actually have a physical problem.
The physical symptoms arise because of the excessive emotions, fear and excitement which causes a fight and flight response in the body.

Physical Symptoms of an anxiety attack - There are actually many different symptoms of an anxiety attack, but you may not be having all these symptoms.

Here are the symptoms below:
Palpitations - Heart starts beating fast or starts to pound.
Shortness of breath - I have found this to be one of the most common symptoms. People feel a certain tightness and experience difficulty in breathing.
Sharp pain in the chest - You could feel a heaviness or pressure in the chest. Sometimes intense pain is experienced which people sometimes mistake as a heart attack.
Light headedness - This is actually dizziness or a feeling that you are about to faint. You will even find it to maintain your balance while sitting or standing.
Fear of going crazy or losing control - You may feel that you are about to lose it and may even die.

These were the most common symptoms of anxiety attacks. A few other symptoms are a feeling of nausea or vomiting tendency, sometimes there can be abdominal pain and you may start to sweat.

Resources to help you in dealing with Anxiety Attacks :-

1. Actually, you can get more details about the technique and even free dvd's and mp3 to help you with the process-- Click here to visit the site. This process can be said to be a form of cognitive behavioural therapy and is very very effective in dealing with your anxiety attacks.

2. Another method to deal with anxiety attacks is to use the famous One Move Technique by Joe Barry. It helps you to stop the negative thought process and is also a form of cognitive therapy. The best thing about it is that it is much cheaper than method number 1 and is almost as effective as the first method above. Click here to see how the One Move technique works

Causes of Anxiety Attacks :- I have said again and again that Anxiety attacks are not a physical problem . Anxiety attacks are the body's reponse to extreme anxiety or fear of something bad happening.
Therefore the only way to deal with anxiety attacks is to deal with your anxieties or fear that is bothering you.

I have explained this in more details below and it would really help you if you read it carefully.

As I have said anxiety attacks are your body's response to your anxieties and fears therefore what we should do is to deal with the anxieties and fears that something negative or bad is going to happen.

The problem is that people think that anxiety attacks are some sort of a disease. They become scared of these anxiety attacks and try to overcome it using some treatment or medication. They forget that they need to deal with their fears first.

The anxiety attack keeps coming because you dont deal with your fears and worries.

HERE'S THE EXPLANATION:
I am going to explain it using an example of a person who used to get anxiety attacks whenever she went to social gatherings or meeting other people. I will try and keep this as short as possible and try not to talk about too many little details.

So,Here it goes:
Whenever she went to social gatherings, she would get these attacks and so she would just try to avoid meeting other people.

Now, the main reason that this was happening to her was because she became too self conscious in social situations.

She would find it hard to go to social gatherings, to speak in meetings, to eat in front of other people, to sign her name when others were looking.

Her main problem was that she felt that she was under scrutiny by others around her. - Its a kind of feeling you have , when you get on the stage for the first time. Its just that she had this feeling everytime she was in a social situation.

She was afraid maybe she would do something that would result in embarrassment or humiliation.

Why this led to Anxiety Attacks
As I told you, whenever she was in a social situation, she used to have those fears, those feelings of being under scrutiny and therefore she felt uncomfortable. She felt a shortness of breathing, started perspiring and her heart started pounding.

Her Mistake : - Now, although this pounding of heart, shortness of breath was because of her fear of being under scrutiny by other people, she thought that somehow she was getting anxiety attacks everytime she was in a social situation and tried to avoid them and later on she would be expecting an anxiety attack whenever she went to a social gathering although fearing those attacks at the same time.

This just made her more anxious and thus her anxiety attacks kept on coming and increasing in intensity as time passed.

The solution ; When she came to talk to me . I told her to try out an experiment with me.
I told her not to be afraid of those anxiety attacks. And most important not to try to control her. I told her to go to a social gathering and let the anxiety attack come.
I told her to go out to a social meeting the next day and not to be afraid of being embarrassed or humiliated.

Just for that day, she should just be herself and if that causes a little embarrassment let it be so and not to try to avoid embarrassment.

Guess what happened the next day. She still got an anxiety attack, but there was one thing positive in it. She noticed that even though she was just being herself, she was not humiliated or embarrassed in any way.

I asked her to continue going to social gatherings and just be her own self. Let the embarrassment come. Let the humiliation come. Let the anxiety attacks come. She should not try to avoid or control any of this.

Soon her anxiety attacks became less in intensity and finally they just vanished away. But this was only possible because she started to focus on the real problem which was her fears of being embarrassed or humiliated. She stopped trying to control all that and became a lot more relaxed than she usually was.

Resources to help you in dealing with Anxiety Attacks :-

1. Actually, you can get more details about the technique and even free dvd's and mp3 to help you with the process-- Click here to visit the site. This process can be said to be a form of cognitive behavioural therapy and is very very effective in dealing with your anxiety attacks.

2. Another method to deal with anxiety attacks is to use the famous One Move Technique by Joe Barry. It helps you to stop the negative thought process and is also a form of cognitive therapy. The best thing about it is that it is much cheaper than method number 1 and is almost as effective as the first method above. Click here to see how the One Move technique works