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How panic attacks Take Over Your Life
from:panic attacks take over your whole body and mind. It prevents you from living your life with freedom. It can occur once or it may occur everyday. The level of your severity will determine what type of treatment you will need.
If you have panic attacks, you know that its not only emotional. This disorder affects you physically as well as emotionally. These attacks start with a mental trigger that will produce physical symptoms. Your heart will race, you will sweat, feel nervous and intense anxiety. Your body will feel like it is out of control and you won't be able to move and if you do move, you will move erratically. You may pace the floor or walk from one place to another with no reason.
As you can imagine, these panic attacks will keep you from daily activities. If you have an attack before a scheduled activity you will not be able to keep the appointment. Not only will you be in emotional turmoil but your body will be unable to return to a normal state until the panic has subsided. This may takes minutes, hours or for some, days.
The occurrence of panic attacks differs for everyone. Like any mental disorder, people differ in their level of severity. You may experience this condition everyday, once a month or once a year. It depends on your condition and your triggers. The more triggers you have the more attacks you will experience. Knowing how to handle these triggers may help some sufferers but many times, common coping skills that others try when they are approached with a stressful situation will not work with those who experience this disorder. The disorder may be so severe that it will not respond to coping skills. Avoiding triggers may be an option but sometimes the trigger is something that you will not be able to live without.
Some sufferers have triggers that they must face often. Fear and anxiety are the most common triggers for the attack and this fear and anxiety usually result from some sort of object or event. Some people are not able to drive over bridges because it will trigger an attack. Others will have an intense fear of speaking in public and this will set off their panic. There are even some people who will not have one specific trigger because a combination of events can also bring on an attack.
Some individuals don't need a trigger to experience this distress. You may feel fine one day but the next day wake up in a state of panic. You won't know why or where it came from but you will know you are having an attack. Your body will be responding as if you were just placed in the most fearful situation that you can imagine.
Depending on the level of severity of your panic attacks, treatment may include a combination of medication along with therapy. The medication will help your body relax and prevent the physical symptoms. Therapy can help with identifying triggers and learn ways to cope with the fear and anxiety you feel from those triggers. For those experiencing panic attacks, there is help for you, you can overcome it and live a life free from panic.
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