Dec
14
Cautionary notices related to medical and health aspects such as cardiac arrest or strokes are coming to light all over American radio lately. TV and radio advertisements tell us what to do should we experience dizziness, fainting, numbness, and so on. However, seldom will we see an advertisement describing common anxiety symptoms, which is particularly uncaring considering so many us go through them and are usually confused by these symptoms.
Going through anxiety symptoms is very common in our western culture, since we get faced with anxious events on a regular basis. Whether it is the distress that we may be lost in an uncharted location or we’re going to be late for a meeting or when the phone rings unexpectedly, we all come face to face with angst at some point in our life. Many us on the other hand may feel anxiety symptoms for what seems to be no reason at all, and might misconstrue the symptoms with the symptoms of getting a heart attack or some alternate medical condition. People who suffer from panic attacks frequently confuse these symptoms.
Panic symptoms are clearly different for everyone, and often it’s apparent that they’re simply feeling anxiety – just before speaking in front of a large group, when you’re about to marry, when you open your front door and see two law enforcement officers standing there; these events might easily make any of us anxious and panic ridden! However for most of us, anxiety symptoms may also include shallow breathing, heart palpitations, vommiting, chest pains, irregular breathing, tingling or numbness in the fingers, face, or toes. Stomach aches, and headaches are not unheard of either. You can appreciate how this could actually be confused with a cardiac arrest or asthma or any type of other conditions.
If you get these anxiety symptoms on a sporadic basis, and especially if they seem to happen for no reason, you should probably visit your doctor. Initially, you’ll want to eliminate the possibility of it being a heart attack or something that severe. Then, he or she can prescribe pills or therapy that could help you cope with the anxiety symptoms while at the same time working with you to discover why you are tense and anxious to begin with. You may have some chemical imbalances in the brain or may need to incorporate a number of new positive techniques on how to process stressful situations so that you’ll be able to side step the onset of a panic attack before it gets really bad.
I managed to cure my panic disorder after a lot of struggle and dragging my family through the terror with me. The program I used was entirely natural, medication-free and did not require ongoing counseling – I’m happy to say that I’ve been free of anxiety for a number of years now, I only wish I had discovered it years earlier.
You can find out more about the program that saved my life at my how to cure anxiety blog.
