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You may feel 'hyper-alert' a lot of the time and the above symptoms of stress and anxiety may become increasingly debilitating. You may be worrying a lot, have sleep problems and feel exhausted most of the time. The ringing of the telephone, post dropping through the letterbox, excited children, crowds, can all cause you to feel anxious, with you just wanting to run away, hide or explode with anger. You may also feel depressed.
From anxiety to panic the symptoms of panic attacks
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. Each time you try to figure it out, everything comes flooding in, stopping you being able 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.
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
Is there anything wrong with me?
It makes sense to have a check-up by your family doctor if only to exclude a medical condition. However, although the 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.
In my practice I often see people who feel a shadow of their normal self and are very worried that they are going 'mad' and will never feel 'normal' again. In fact their body/mind is reacting entirely normal under for them abnormal circumstances or through a gradual build-up of stress. Complete recovery is likely!
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What caused the anxiety and panic attack?
Anxietyandpanic are likely to come about for a variety of reasons:
Triggered by a traumatic event Several stressful events following close together Reduced 'spare capacity', resources of any kind Stressful event in context of high 'background' level of stress Nutritional deficiency (particularly B vitamins)
How can I get rid of it?
Symptoms of stress and anxiety, frequently linked with depression, respond very well to human givens therapy, sometimes in a few sessions. A counsellor, who uses the Human Givens approach, can help you with a wide variety of techniques and ideas, which include helping you to meet your essential emotional needs and making the most of your innate resources, and hypnotherapy.
The speed of recovery may depend on whether or not you are taking tranquillisers and/or antidepressants. If you have been prescribed such medication by your family doctor or specialist, it is not advisable to stop taking it without their advice. Your counsellor should be able to advice you on the best course of action and will be happy to liase with your GP or specialist if necessary.
The material on this site is intended as information only,
Elly Prior, HG Dip P, Cert CC Relate, MHGI, MBACP (Accred) the human givens approach for personal and relationship problems Gillingham, Kent, UK Tel.: (+44) 01634 856176
