Dealing with
Anxiety and panic attack- Dangerous psychological states
Humans have
to deal with a lot of challenges to continue a peaceful life. The nature can be
light or dense but problems are a part of everyone’s life. Everyone one is
struggling against its own issues and problems. The situation gets alarming
when someone loses stamina to deal with the daily challenges and gets trap into
depression and anxiety. Majority of people doesn’t know that they are
depressed. There are stages in life when a person feels helpless and insecure.
As the level of depression and anxiety toll up, an affected person come across
with panic attacks.
What is a
panic Attack?
Panic attack
is a body reaction towards some fear when it is not much severe. The reaction
can be intensely serious and stays from minutes to longer.
‘A fast
running car passed by us. It was about to crush my son who was walking besides
me. I don’t know what happened if my son would hit? How I’m going to live without
my only son?’ my sister entered home in a terrible condition. She was sweating,
and feeling difficulty in breathing at that time. We asked to sit down, calm
down and told her that her son is all right. My nephew kissed her mother to
relieve her. It was not the first time but panic attacks were normal for my
sister.
‘This
earthquake will sure end our lives!’
‘I’m telling
you, this house maid will steal in the house,’
‘Doctors are
unable to diagnose but I’m having a serious disease,’
and many other keep her disturbed and
depressed.
Sometimes
fear or over thinking makes the body trembles. One of sign of panic attack is
that people start feel like they don’t have power in their body anymore. They
feel helpless. The most common symptom of panic attack is mood swings, physical
confusion and feeling of uncertainty. Panic attacks are more look like heart
attack but a person needs to understand a difference between panic attack and
heart attack. A person is always remains with a fear of losing something. When
you constantly go through panic attacks, sudden onset of fear, chest tightness,
and shortness of breath then you must consult a doctor and seek medical advice.
What to do
in a panic attack?
Anxiety can
be over ruled at initial stage but when it starts affecting the daily routine then
it indicates a mental disorder. In a panic attack, heart beats faster, body
feels dizzy and shivering and traumatic. This is called panic attack. Many
people think it a heart attack. They run to doctor. You need to tell yourself
that you’re out of danger. Stay calm. Panic attack comes to normal in 2-3
minutes. The chest pain is due to the tightness in muscles. The chest and
abdomen become stiff due to tension and they feel difficulty in breathing. A
calm breathing should be advised instead of taking long deep breaths. If during
panic attack, someone try to take deep breath then their head gets heavy and
they start feeling dizzy.
Panic attack
and depression are related
Panic
attacks are somehow related to depression and anxiety. The symptoms of
depression are loss of concentration, muscle spasms, fatigue and insomnia. For
long, usually, people ignore all above symptoms and faces crucial consequences
like panic attacks.
Depression
starts affecting the daily routine of a person. Depression and anxiety more
affect the people who have low endurance. They get disturbed on small issues.
Sometimes it takes time to understand the new change in life and a person start
feeling anxiety and depressed. Mental health should be cared and addressed like
any other health issue. Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are signs of severe
mental illness. A person whose job was his only mean of subsistence lost the
job, he got cheated by a spouse whom he loved immensely or any of children had
faced an accident there can be lot of reasons that trigger panic attacks.
What are factors
behind depression and panic attacks
Sometimes we
don’t know the exact factors behind the state of anxiety and panic attack. We
may think about some of factors caused depression but there is a possibility
that something else is making us worried and we don’t know about it.
One factor
of anxiety may be some medication that doesn’t suit us. There may be physical
changes that are causing anxiety. A detection of real cause of anxiety helps
the person to deal with it. The other factors may be overactive thyroid, low
blood pressure, hormonal imbalance, weak immune system, or any inner infection
may create symptoms of drowsiness, convulsions, restlessness, and fatigue.
Experts tell that people who suffer from panic attack think it as a heart
attack. A normal person should understand the difference of heart attack and a
panic attack.
Anxiety can
attack you in many ways. It can be aggressive in social and physical nature.
Many people fear facing the society, the anxiety of being separated from
someone, different type of phobias and panic attack is a form of anxiety. Experts
suggest that physical symptoms do appear in cases when a person is dealing with
anxiety. The symptoms show that something is going wrong. The physical symptoms
of anxiety are beneficial in a way that they send a signal to the person to
fight the situation now. A person should understand and cure its condition.
Balance Diet
helps reducing panic attacks
A healthy
diet develops a healthy body and mind. People who suffer from anxiety and
stress can reduce its density by taking a balanced diet. A proper healthy diet
with sufficient water intake can help you to reduce anxiety. Also you should
take less quantity of caffeine to get rid of anxiety and reduce the danger of
panic attack. A disturbed eating and drinking routine can adversely affect the
body. It is very important not to overlook your food choices. Person who is dealing with anxiety should not
skip any meals. By skipping your meal, your sugar level can drop and can trigger
your restlessness and depression.
Do exercise
Exercise has
proved best activity to deal with anxiety and depression. Unfortunately, people
dealing with anxiety mostly feel lazy and lethargic that they don’t do
exercises. Experts say that a regular exercise drops the level of anxiety. A
brisk walk increases the blood circulation towards brain and removes the affect
of chemicals creating anxiety. Exercising should be part of daily routine for
healthy and happy lifestyle.
Look for
reason
It is a fact
that mostly anxiety can be with you due to heredity and the environment in
which a person survives. There are many other factors too, that increases
anxiety and depression level. A sudden change in life, an illness, hormonal
changes like start of teenage, birth of child, or failure of relationship can
produce anxiety. This type of anxiety fades away with time but sometimes it
persists for long and a person come across regular panic attacks. A medical advice
is needed here. When anxiety exceeds a certain level then brain alarms the body
to look for it. It is very important that a person should know the causes that
cause anxiety. Most causes of panic attacks are thought to be related to
physical changes. A person can gets panic on listening the alarm clock even.
Get proper
sleep
A sound and enough
sleep cure many diseases. It is a normal observation that if you don’t take enough
sleep then you start acting disturbed and angry. A person should improve
sleeping routine to reduce the level of anxiety.
If a person
learns to use his mind in the proper way, he can reap many benefits.
SEEK PSYCHOLOGICAL
ADVICE
A person
dealing with anxiety shouldn’t be hesitant while taking psychological advice.
In many societies, there is not any concept of mental health and people don’t
like going to psychologists. It is time to understand that anxiety is just like
any other regular disease which can be cured by taking medical help.
A cognitive
behavioral therapy
A cognitive behavioral therapy is one method
where specialists help the patient to resolve his mental confusion through
dialogue. A psychiatrist helps to resolve all the fears and factors that cause
anxiety through therapy. A patient may be advised with any medicines to
maintain its anxiety level. There are several benefits of consulting a psychologist
to deal with anxiety and to avoid panic attacks. Therapists observe patients thoughts and fears
and devise them focused way to get rid of fears. Patients learn to face the
society and talking about their concerns that were triggering anxiety.
A few
patients don’t co-operate with psychiatrist as they are hesitant disclosing
their experiences and fears. Here Bibliotherapy works good.
Bibilo theraphy
In
Bibilotheraphy psychological support is provided through writing. This type of
therapy is good for children dealing with anxiety.
Using apps
There are
many apps now that provide medical help and guidance to deal with anxiety.
Suppose a person whose
job is his only means of subsistence, leaves or cheats on a spouse whom he
loves immensely, or if his child has an accident