If you occasionally experience an overwhelming sense of anxiety or panic, you might be experiencing anxiety attacks. For example, you may feel your heart start to race, while meanwhile you feel dizzy and you may even feel like the world is collapsing around you. An anxiety attack can also be accompanied by a number of negative thoughts that feel out of control. During an attack, you might even feel like you are going insane, for example.
When going through an attack, you may start to feel very self conscious and alone as if you are the only person who has ever gone through this experience. Not true. In fact, it may comfort you to know that millions of other people have experienced anxiety, or panic, attacks in their lives. For some people, the attacks have only happened a handful of times. For others, they can unfortunately be a regular occurrence.
One of the worst things about these attacks is that people who have regular attacks often live in a daily state of fear that another attack will come on at any time, without warning. In fact, there is a reasonable basis for this type of fear: panic attacks can at times come on without any apparent cause. So, it makes sense that people who have had this experience in the past more than once might always be thinking in the back of their mind: What if this happens to me again soon?
But, how can you know if you have had an attack? After all: what does an anxiety attack feel like? Here are 4 tell tale symptoms:
1. Racing heart
One of the biggest tell tale signs of anxiety attacks is having a racing heart. You might notice that your heart starts beating much faster than usual, and you are hard pressed to understand why. After all, you might have been merely driving, walking or sitting at your desk when it strikes. Suddenly, your heart is racing as if you had just jogged a great distance. You will notice that your breathing starts to pick up pace, too, in response to your attack.
2. Dizziness and numbness
After an attack has been going on for a few minutes, you may start to feel dizzy. You could also start feeling a numbness in your fingers, arms, neck or chest. The reasons for these effects are complex, but it has to do with the way you are breathing. Hyperventilation, for example, can bring on these sensations.
3. Extremely negative thoughts and a feeling of being out of control
Having all of these physical symptoms due to the attack can also bring on a number of negative thoughts, as well. These thoughts, which might include the feeling that one is going to lose control, go crazy, or have the world close in around you, can be terrifying. They are made worse because they seem to come about in a way that is not controllable.
4. Comes on without warning
One of the scariest things about these attacks is that they can come on without forewarning. This surprise nature can make them even more dreaded, since people who experience them might spend a lot of time each day worrying if they are going to have another one. In fact, this very worry itself can bring on more attacks.
If you think you are having anxiety attacks or know someone who is, you owe it to everyone involved to find out how to cure the condition. Happily, there are ways to get rid of these attacks once and for all.
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