Stop Panic
Your throat closes up, you feel sick and it feels like your heart is going to thump out of your chest and you will have a heart attack. Sound familiar? This common and unpleasant situation is called a Panic Attack. And whilst you may feel like you are dying, you definitely are not. Lots and lots of people suffer from these attacks, but you can stop them. Learning how to deal with Panic Attacks can help you on the road to stopping them for good.
During a panic attack there are quite a few symptoms the unfortunate suffer may experience, these include; becoming faint or feeling dizzy, vomiting or nausea, experiencing heart palpitations or the feeling your heart is thumping out of your chest, getting a hot flush or shivering, not being able to breathe or catch your breath, and choking.
Even though you may have an overwhelming feeling that you are going to die or you will have a heart attack, there is actually nothing physically wrong with your heart to cause the reaction. The brain goes into overdrive during an attack and this causes stimulation of the nervous system.
During an attack you start to over breathe which in turn means you produce and breathe out more carbon dioxide than normal. This then make the blood too acidic and it is the rising levels of acidity that gives you the symptoms that arise during the attack.
Unless you can get your breathing under control you will keep having the attack, as the longer you hyperventilate the more symptoms you will produce. Which in turn will cause you to become more frightened and it will all just keep going round in circles. Whilst a very bad attack can come in peaks over a couple of hours, most will be over in about 10 minutes.
Younger women are more prone to having panic attacks. Females in general are more affected than males.
Once an attack starts there are a few ways to stop it from getting increasingly worse. The main thing to do is to focus on your breathing and ensure that rather than the rapid breathing that normally occurs you take slow, deep, steady breaths. Some people find that breathing into a brown paper bag helps and you will breathe back in the carbon dioxide that you breathed out when hyperventilating. This should then help the raised acidity levels in your blood to return to normal, thus preventing further symptoms and hopefully stopping the attack.
The best way you can prevent an attack coming or to deal with it once it has started is to try to work out why you are getting the attacks. Has there been a trigger, for example bereavement? Are you encountering a lot of stress at work or at home? Once you have identified the cause, if you are able to, try to work on that reason and deal with it in a positive way, if possible.
The more informed and knowledgeable you are about the way your body works and reacts during an attack will go some way in helping you to over come the problem.
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