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Anxiety Disorders

Panic Attacks

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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety disorders and panic attacks are usually developed after traumatic events in someone’s life. It can be developed immediately after the traumatic event has happened or years down the line. During a panic attack, you get these rush of emotions, symptoms, and immense fear that you cannot explain. You try to process what is happening to you and why you are feeling that way. You cannot decipher your body’s reactions to your feelings. You don’t understand why you are so terrified. You don’t understand what caused it and that itself creates even more of a panic. A lot of times panic attacks happen in the most random places like school, restaurant, movie theater, grocery store, making it more confusing to understand. It happens anywhere even if you aren’t in a position where you would become anxious or scared, it just happens. Due to the unexpected rush of emotions and fear at that grocery store, you begin to make your own assumptions as to what is going on to you and your body, may even think you are dying or having a stroke, a heart attack.

The feelings and fear are that extreme that you contemplate the idea that you may be dying. Sweating palms, fast heart rate, dizziness, shortness of breath, loss of senses all accumulate. Anxiety and panic attacks are triggered by the smallest things; like smells, a memory, being in the same place as your last attack. Living with anxiety disorders is an everyday battle. You have to constantly be reminding yourself it will be okay. Reminding yourself you can get through the day. Reminding yourself it'll pass. Trying not to think about those terrifying feelings. The gut-wrenching feeling of knowing that all those feelings and symptoms are not real but are so disgustingly vivid. If not treated it can devour you mentally, emotionally even physically. Your mind registers your panic attacks and it registers it as a fight or flees. It is important to seek help once you begin having those episodes because if you let it happen again and again it will become a cycle that will lead you to seclusion

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