Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Who Gets it and Why

By Gordon Dalwood

People that have either anxiety or panic attacks can have them for various reasons. There is not just one specific cause for these things to happen with people. It can be many different things together or one particular thing that triggers the anxiety or panic. Let's delve more into this subject to see what we can learn.

You could actually have it in your genetics to be more sensitive to anxiety than other people are. Society often refers to people like this as being naturally high strung. If you are one of these people you know what this means. You are more nervous in all situations.

If you are going through a tough situation in your life it is easy to feel anxiety over it. Many people today are anxious over their finances and how they are going to pay their bills. This may even make some people have full-blown panic attacks over their situations. Of course this is one of the more normal reasons to feel anxiety and panic.

Depression is also another reason why anxiety and panic effects people. The feeling of depression is something that some people can not bear easily. This could be a reason for them to think irrationally and irresponsibly which may lead them to more serious problems.

Being calm at times where you need to when facing tough situations is the result of thinking rationally. But aside from anxiety and fear, people would further increase the level of anxiety when they continue taking prohibited drugs and alcohol. The right reasoning will definitely become distorted due to these influences.

Panic attacks come not just once in a lifetime. After having an panic attack, panic will likely attack again. This factor can also increase the occurrence of panic attacks as the person becomes afraid of another attack. The recurrence will just continue unless the anxiety is treated.

Anxiety and panic attacks may be due to many stressful incidences and may tend to go as long as the stress continues. This will become a cycle that can be hard to break. If this condition is not treated properly, anxiety will continue to disruped the person, or worse ruin the normal flow of their life.

You may have experienced a traumatic incident in your life that you are afraid of its recurrence. Because of this fear, the after effects of such incidence could be anxiety and fear. If you let this fear to overcome you and to trouble you, this anxiety will tend to become panic attacks later on.

What is taken in this article is the fact that every one of us can be affected by anxiety, fear, and stress at some point in our lives. Although it's true that not all of us are attacked by extreme anxiety, there is still the possibility that it will happen, especially if we do not know how to control our feelings and emotions. To help yourself prevent this from happening, research information about the traditional therapies, and alternative medications that you can use to free yourself from worries and anxiety before it ruins your life. - 32513

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