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Friday, July 11, 2008

Panic Anxiety Attacks - Are You a Misfit?

My husband wanted me to see a doctor. However, I was under the belief that only mad people went to psychiatrists. Hence I resisted it for as long as I could. Then one day, an article in a magazine caught my attention. It talked about anxiety anxiety attacks and said okulary ajurwedyjskie quiet a common problem in this day and time. That changed my outlook and I agreed to meet a psychiatrist. Contrary to the popular opinion, he didn't jack me up on drugs instead he used alternative remedies.

When suffering from anxiety panic attacks I often found that I had a claustrophobic feeling, not just from small closed in spaces it even happened in large crowds. I would feel like I was going to faint. Of course I never realized that I was having panic attacks, I just figured I was overly tired or something. There were other times that I felt like I just couldn't breath or that I was choking, I even had a few of episodes like this while laying in bed ksiazki just before falling asleep.

Suffering through panic attacks are not fun. I remember having an extreme dread and fear of the unknown; a fear that something bad was going to happen to me. My heart would begin to hammer like it would burst or like I was about to have a heart attack. I began to distrust others because I thought they had it in for me or were out to get me, always reading into something that wasn't even there. Control became an issue for me, because I felt as if I had lost control of everything, my entire life was just spinning away from me and there was nothing I could do about it.

Other symptoms that I found were truly panic attack symptoms and not hormonal or illness related as I had originally thought were the cold and hot flushes. There were times when I would actually break out in profuse sweat and have extreme chills to go along with it.

Impending doom...There was one point when it got so bad that I began to think that I was going to die. What with all of the other symptoms I was displaying with the hammering heart, shortness of breath and choking I just knew it was my time.

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