The anxiety is a normal thing in human life and you can blame your brain for that since some brain parts play role in an anxiety attack. But still, anxiety keeps us alert to live our life. The cause has not yet to be known since the research still continues to answer it. But some prediction such as genetics and experience can cause the anxiety attack.
The Symptoms of Anxiety Attack
When someone gets anxiety attacks, it can feel awful as well intense and also frightening; we are helpless to control it when it attacks us. The symptoms feel like: an overwhelming fear, you feel like you are going crazy or losing control of yourself, You feel like you are in a great danger, you feel like you’re going to pass out, a surge of doom and gloom creeping in inside your head, there’s an urgency to run away and escape, dizziness, palpitation, you’ll start shaking and trembling, sweating, shortness of breath, pain, and pressure in your chest, your face turning pale, your knees weaken, your skin is burning, hot and cold flushes, and there’s numb and tingling sensation.
Those symptoms can be followed by feeling of something stuck in your throat, confusion, feeling as if all of that happen are not real, emotional distress and upset, you cannot calm yourself down, tight stomach, nausea, you start to panic, your heart pounding as if it wants to get out of your chest, feeling like there’s a butterfly inside your stomach, sudden urge to pee or defecate, and you want to cry.
For each person the symptoms are different. Some people only have some of those symptoms while some people could experience all of the symptoms above with a great severity. The combination and variations are common. You’ll probably need to see your doctor discuss the symptoms.
Question about Anxiety Attack
You’ll probably have a lot of question about anxiety attack and here are some question and answer about an anxiety attack. How long can the symptoms last and are they serious? It can last from few minutes until few hours determined on how frightened they are and the reaction to it. Even though anxiety attack is frightened but it is not serious no matter how powerful the attack is.
Are the anxiety attack symptoms same for women and men? Well, every person has his/her own chemical unique so the symptoms of an anxiety attack are different and various to each person even from men and women.
How to tell the difference between the anxiety attack symptoms and heart attacks symptoms? It is true that the symptoms for an anxiety attack and heart attack can be similar. But doctors can quickly know the differences since heart attack have some symptoms that anxiety attack doesn’t have. But if you aren’t sure you can see your doctor and ask about it.
How to End the Anxiety Attack
When anxiety attack come, here are some way to stop it: accept the attack, take notes to help you put the attack into perspective, do belly breath and inhale deeply then exhale it, relax, try to talk to yourself loudly and remind yourself that it’s going to end and it’s not going to kill you, and seek help.
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