"There is more to life than increasing its speed" Mahatma Ghandi
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The above signs and symptoms of stress may become increasingly debilitating. They can ultimately lead to a complete 'nervous breakdown'.
This is when everything feels too much - the telephone ringing, post dropping through the letterbox, excited children, crowds, all appear to increase your symptoms, and you just want to run away, hide or explode with anger. Other symptoms are:
- feeling 'hyper-alert' - worrying about the smallest things - suffering from the effects of lack of sleep - feeling exhausted - feeling guilty because you are such lousy company!
Worried you are going 'mad'? Thoughts maybe going round and round your mind, without you being able to get a grip on them. Perhaps too many things have come at you together and you have become too emotional to be able to really process what is going on. You try to figure it out of thing and everything else comes flooding in. You find it almost impossible to concentrate.
You will recover! Once you accept that it won't happen overnight and you stop fighting it, you can begin to look for solutions, including considering counselling.
Panic attack symptoms
A panic attack, in additionto the above symptoms of anxiety, causes:
- poundingheart, chest pain - difficulty with breathing - feelings of unreality - a sense of detachment from yourself - fear of losing control or going crazy - fear of dying
Telling your doctor about these signs and symptoms?
It makes sense to have a check-up by your family doctor if only to exclude a medical condition. However, although the signs and symptoms of a panic attack can be very frightening indeed, it is unlikely that there is anything seriously wrong with you. Panic attacks are very common and can be treated, often very quickly. A nervous breakdown won't last.
In my practice I often see people who are very worried that they are going 'mad' and will never feel 'normal' again.
In fact often their body/mind's reaction is entirely normal under for them abnormal circumstances.
You probably have been feeling increasingly rough over a period of time. The symptoms of a nervous breakdown slowly build, unless you have been traumatised.
I just want you to know that you will recover!
The material on this site is intended as information only, not as medical advice.
Bjeearwicke
What causes a nervous breakdown or anxiety attacks?
Anxietyandpanic attacks start for a variety of reasons:
triggered by a traumatic event several stressful events following close together reduced 'spare capacity' - completely running out of resources stressful event in context of high 'background' level of stress nutritional deficiency (particularly B vitamins) symptoms are frequently linked with depression
