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Having anxiety attacks is probably one of the most unnerving bodily feelings you can ever have.  One of the main tribulations with having anxiety attacks is that, it cannot really be seen by everybody else, so you might feel totally isolated and by yourself.
Lots of times the person who is suffering from an anxiety attack does not know what is going on, which contributes to the strength of the anxiety.

Having anxiety attacks can be soul destroying, it can thoroughly turn your life upside down.  I have not got this from a book; I have lived with anxiety attacks for over 20years, also my Mum has suffered with anxiety attacks as well.

My anxiety attacks would happen out of the blue, I could be out shopping having a nice time, then that dreaded sense of not feeling right would start to creep up on me, then that feeling would get more powerful and stronger and before I knew it I would be having a full blown anxiety attack in the centre of a shop.  I can tell you it is really scary, but those of you reading this will have some sort of grasp of what i mean.  That awful feeling where you commence to feel all hot and nervous, your vision starts to go and you feel like the shop is drawing in on you.

How I would explain my feeling is like this, I was aware of everything that was going on around me, but I felt like a part of me had withdrawn into myself, if that makes sense.  For me I just desired quite, I could not handle it with anyone talking to me.  I had to focus on what was taking place with me.  I don’t know what I imagined would happen but I just needed to gain control.

What I found really hard was trying to get my husband to appreciate what was happening to me.  To try and get him to identify with how I was feeling and what having anxiety attacks was doing to me mentally, physically and emotionally.  It was pointless really; know one known’s what having anxiety attacks are like unless you have experienced them for yourself.

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Anxiety and panic attacks can be bought on by many different things, such as stress, depression, grief and alcoholism.  What ever it is caused by, the affect is that your mind is saturated  with worrying and fear-provoking thoughts. And these judgments really do effect your life. Everyone who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks knows only to well how alarming that panic mode can be. Coming to terms with the fact that it is not the meddling thoughts that are answerable for your anxiety, but the way you act in response to those thoughts, that triggers your anxiety or Panic Attack.

For loads of anxious people, there home or a room in their residence is a secure haven.  But when the anxiety and panic over run these safe places, it can leave you feeling entirely helpless and on your own.  People who do not suffer with Anxiety or Panic Attacks have no conception as to how to a large extent these feelings take over our lives.

Having Anxiety and Panic Attacks will really affect your self-esteem.  People saying positive things to you, have no real affect, but people saying downbeat things really hit you hard.
It works very much the same with your thoughts, when you have negative or worrying thoughts, you tend to  focus on them and not the optimistic and happy thoughts… and then so it goes… off into panic.

Being able to manage our thoughts is a step towards beating Anxiety and Panic attacks. In my case I learned that these attacks couldn’t hurt me, that was the tricky part. I then learned that if I faced my thoughts and the things that made me anxious, I could seize control again and not be stopped by my Anxiety Disorder.

Anxiety can be overcome, once you start to get an comprehension of what is causing your anxiety, you can then learn some coping skills to help you over come your Anxiety and Panic Attacks.

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For me anxiety and panic attacks go hand in hand.  The reason I make this statement is because that was how it was for me, for several years.  When I started to get anxious, I could not stop it going into a full blow panic attack.

The foremost frightening thing for me was that I never knew when I was going to go in to a anxiety attack followed promptly by a panic attack.  I could awaken in the morning feeling great or I could simply be sitting watching television.  Then that feeling of not feeling okay would gradually swamp my brain. This is extremely difficult to explain.  But those of you who have anxiety and panic attacks will know what I mean.  It is just a strange feeling which simply starts as a feeling, and then I would get anxious regarding that feeling, that then got stronger, which then lead to me having anxiety regarding that feeling.  Then yes you guessed it, I would then go into a full blown panic attack.  It’s crazy, however true and it is true for a heap of folks who are suffering from anxiety and panic attacks.

The most frustrating factor for me was that it’s not like having a physical illness that individuals can see and understand.  Normally my friends and family where unaware of the very fact that I used to be in an anxious state.  I gave up a very long time ago trying to explain to them how I was feeling and what physical reactions where going on for me.  If I could not understand it, then how might I expect them to understand?   I  sometimes re-live at how I used to be, and sometimes still can be.  It will appear silly.  But as silly as it might appear when you’re in that scenario it is very real and very frightening.

One last issue, if I had a penny for each time I used to be told to pull my socks up…then I’d be rolling in money.  Don’t listen to those people around you who do not understand.  Understand that what is going for you is very real and very frightening.

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