Anxiety-Symptoms

Anxiety-symptoms occur because the body’s fight or flight response has been triggered by the hormones adrenaline and nor-adrenaline which are circulated round your body in your blood system.

These chemicals make you aware of the impending danger and tell the various parts of your body to prepare for an emergency.

Your heart will beat faster and you’ll start breathing more rapidly. Meanwhile you’ll be on the alert for where the danger is, trying to avoid it or being on the attack.

Physical

These are the changes you notice in your body, such as increased heart beat, sweaty hands or feeling faint.

Behavioural

The things you actually do when you perceive danger, such as rushing out of the room or talking all the time in an attempt to avoid feeling uncomfortable.

Psychological

These are the thought you have about what’s happening, such as feeling unable to cope, feeling overwhelmed or thinking you’re going to be sick.

To recognise that you’re suffering from anxiety, you don’t have to have all of these symptoms and in any case, perhaps yours differ from those in the lists here.

Many people report that the worst thing about their anxiety is the fear that they are going mad or that they’re going to lose control of themselves.

While, neither of these is true, but in the middle of feeling anxious, when your brain’s critical faculty has been bypassed by the process itself, it’s easy to see how worrying that might be. Of course, worrying, as we’ll find out later, only makes things worse.

How we think affects our response.

To find out more, click on the link: Anxiety Attack