Investigating The Most Common Anxiety Symptoms
Posted by man | Under Uncategorized Thursday Dec 31, 2009Warning statements about medical and health conditions such as heart attacks or strokes appear to be showing up all over our television these days. Television and radio ads show us what to do if we feel dizziness, passing out, tingling sensations, and so on. However, very seldom will we hear an ad breaking down common anxiety symptoms, which is rather uncaring considering a lot of people go through them and are very confused by them.
Going through anxiety symptoms is extremely common in our society today, when we are presented with stressful situations on a persistent basis. Whether it’s the fear that we may be off-course in an unfamiliar place or we’re going to be late for a doctor’s appointment or when the bedside phone rings unexpectedly, we all come face to face with anxiety at some point in our day. Many people however may experience anxiety symptoms for what seems to be no cause whatsoever, and could confuse these with the symptoms of having a heart attack or some other medical condition. Those who suffer from anxiety attacks frequently confuse these symptoms.
Panic symptoms are definitely different for everyone, and usually it’s apparent that we’re simply feeling anxiety – right before speaking in front of a large group, when they’re about to be married, when you open your front door and see a weird looking stranger standing there; these situations might easily make any of us anxious and nervous! However for many of us, anxiety symptoms can also include shallow breathing, heart palpitations, nausea, chest pains, irregular breathing, tingling or numbness in the fingers, face, or toes. Stomach aches, and headaches are not uncommon either. You can understand how this could easily be confused with a heart attack or asthma or any number of other conditions.
If you exeprience these anxiety symptoms on a regular basis, and especially if they tend to show up for no reason, you should probably speak to your doctor. Initially, you might want to rule out the potential of it being a heart attack or something that dangerous. After that, he or she can prescribe drugs or therapy that could help you live with the anxiety symptoms while at the same time working with you to ascertain why you are stressed and anxious to begin with. You may have some chemical abnormalities in the brain or may need to learn some new positive techniques on how to mentally process a situation so that you’ll be able to side step the onset of a panic attack before it gets really bad.
I managed to overcome my panic disorder after a lot of struggle and dragging my family through the terror with me. The cure I used was completely natural, medication-free and did not require ongoing counseling – I’m happy to report that I’ve been anxiety free for a number of years now, I only wish I had found it years earlier.
You can find out more about the program that saved my sanity at my how to cure anxiety blog.