Anxiety Tips & Tricks

What are symptoms of Anxiety/Panic Attacks

For More Info go to: Medicinenet.com/panic_attacks or anxietycentre.com

My Knowledge: (I have expirenced these ones, there are others that I didnt mention)
Anxiety/Panic attacks are a bit terrifying. Your first one especially!

While having an attack, you may experience the following:
-Heavy & shallow/rapid breathing
-Troubles Breathing
-Limbs feel weak
-Lightheaded
-Sick to your stomach
-Rapid heart rate
-Unpleasant Chest pain
-Dizzy/ feel like your're gonna to faint or pass out
-Tingiling feeling
-Anxious or Stressed out
-Feeling of going crazy/losing mind
-Feeling you are going to die or are in grave danger
-Fearful or scared
-Heighted sense of danger
-More aware of surroundings
-Headache
-Trembling or shaking
-Sweating
-Turing Pale
-Feel Detached from reality or feeling like you're in a dream
-Stiffness
-Confused and Can't think straight
-Buring skin/ Hot and Cold
- Pins and Needles feelings over your entire body
-Cramping or stabbing pain
-Choking sensation
-Dry mouth
-Feel the need to startCrying and Screaming
-Unable to kalm yourself
-Knot in stomach
-Suffocation sensation
-Urge to go to the bathroom (urinate or other bodily fluids)
There are many more signs and symptoms, these are just some of the ones I have experiences and heard that they are more common.

Questions you may have:

Q: How long can these attacks last?
A: Well, can be anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of days. While yes, they can last hours or even in some cases days, the symptoms are happening all the time. If the attack is a longer one, it is more than likely going to happen in episodes. Episodes are basically a series of anxiety/panik attacks and symptoms can last much longer and stretch out over a long period of time, then will subside for time and reoccur. An anxiety attack most commonly will NOT last a month, and if it does~ please make an appointment with a doctor to be treated!

Q: Are panic attacks and anxiety attacks the same thing?
A: Nope! They are two diffrent things that are just very simmilar. If you wanna know the diffrence:
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The DSM-5 suggests there is a difference between anxiety attacks and panic attacks.[1]

The main differences are that an anxiety attack has mild symptoms, is short to long in duration, and the symptoms come on gradually whereas a panic attack has intense symptoms, is short in duration, and symptoms come on suddenly. Overall, an anxiety attack is mild and a panic attack is severe.

This difference is important, however, as the DSM-5 uses panic attack as a "clinical term" used to define symptoms and determine treatment options whereas anxiety attack is not used in a clinical manner. The difference can impact treatment by a mental health professional.
[NOT MY DEFINITION, IT IS THE SECOND WEBSITE THAT IS LISTED AT THE TOPS DEFINITON]
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Q: Are these attacks serious?
A: While these attacks have some harsh symptoms and signs are are out of control, they are not harmful! These attacks are signs that you are very stressed (woah, no duh)

Q: Can you die from a panic attack or anxiety attack?
A: Panic attacks themselves aren't harmful. But since anxiety attacks can severely stress the body, they could exacerbate an existing health condition if it is aggravated by stress

Q: What do these attacks necessarily mean?
A: It simply just means that you are having high-levels of anxiety/stress or panic and the attack is your body going into 'fight or flight'

Q: Can I have a definition of anxiety?
A: Anxiety can be described as a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a real or imagined event, situation, or circumstance that we think might be threatening or worrysome.

Q:What's the 'fight or flight' responce?
A: It is your bodies survival instincs kicking in. We can think of the fight or flight response as an emergency mechanism the body mobilizes to give us an extra edge when dangerous situations occur.

If you have any others Questions just comment them or use the converation feature on my account overview!

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NOT MY WORDS!

Dr. Hans Selye, a 20th-century Vienna-born scientist well-known for his work on stress and the author of, "The Stress Of Life," identified three specific stages of the stress response. He called these stages the "General Adaptation Syndrome" (GAS).[2] They are:

Alarm stage - Sensing danger triggers the stress response. The stress response causes the secretion of stress hormones into the bloodstream where they travel to targeted spots in the body to bring about specific physiological, psychological, and emotional changes that enhance the body's ability to deal with a threat – to fight or flee.
Resistance stage – The stress response changes are engaged to give the body an extra "boost" in energy and resources to deal with a threat.
Exhaustion stage – After the threat has passed, the stress response ends, and the stress hormones are used up or expelled, the body enters a recovery phase where it recovers from the stress response changes and rebuilds its energy stores for next time a stress response is needed.
For simplicity sake, the three stages of an emergency response can be illustrated as:

anxiety attack symptoms General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).

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Here are some images for ya [TW: include some scientic images of the human body, fyi]

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That's all the basics to Anxiety and Panic attacks! I will be making a how to manage them chapter soon!
I hope ya find this helpful!

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