Who Gets it and Why, Anxiety and Panic Attacks

By Gordon Dalwood

Anxiety and panic attacks can be acquired through many different factors. It affects people not only for one single reason. There are many things that are happening to people each day that cause them to have anxiety and panic attacks. Continue reading to know more about the factors of anxiety and panic attacks.

People can have genetic traits that may affect their being sensitive to anxiety and fear. They may easily feel anxious and may even have a nervous breakdown by encountering the slightest reason to fear. They are referred to in society as people who are naturally high strung.

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.

Another common problem is depression. People who are depressed normally feel worried, stressed, and anxious. This factor will even make the person to think irrationally, especially in situations where correct thinking is expected. Anxiety due to factors like this could lead to panic attacks.

Also anything that makes you have altered thinking such as taking drugs and alcoholic beverages. These can distort your thinking and rationing abilities so you may not be able to keep yourself calm when needed. When you become anxious there is always a possibility of a panic attack occurring.

Panic attacks have a tendency to be recurrent after attacking a person once. If you have already experienced a panic attack, you may develope a tendency to this in different situations. The fear of anxiety could lead you to another panic attack.

The cycle of anxiety and panic attack can be destructive to your wellbeing. If you just leave anxiety to go untreated, you will continue to have panic attacks for the rest of your life. Your life will never be normal again if you do not treat your anxiety right away.

When you have been in a traumatic situation in your life, where you have feared for your life this can cause you after effects. These can include a high level of fear that stays with you, which brings on anxiety. If this level of fear is too high it may turn into panic. This in another very normal thing to suffer anxiety and even panic attacks over.

Learned in this article is the fact that every one of us can be affected by anxiety and panic at some point in time in our lives. Although it's true that not all of us will be attacked by extreme anxiety, there is still the possibility that it will, especially if we don't know how to control our feelings and emotions. To help yourself prevent this from happening, research information on traditional therapies, and medications that you can use to free yourself from anxiety and panic before your life is affected by it. - 31877

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