What Are Frequent Anxiety Attack Symptoms?
To begin with, before I list common anxiety attack symptoms, I’d want to take a second to clarify that a “symptom” is a thing that medical professionals work with to identify individual illnesses and diseases. Many stress and anxiety disorders aren’t medical diseases. They’re behavioral problems. That is to say that there’s likely not a thing physically wrong with you that may be producing panic attacks, but instead you go through anxiety attacks since you are responding to nervous thinking and “what if” thoughts.
If you suffer through panic when there may be absolutely nothing to rationally be terrifiedof, you are having an inappropriate degree of stress and anxiety. This is likely a result of stressing about stuff that are outside your control, or a limitless sequence of “what if” thoughts that only bother you and raise your panic still further.
Given that every individual is unique, each person will face different panic attack signs and symptoms. We each respond to anxiety- and worry-inducing events in different ways, but here are some regularly occurring ones that people often encounter.
* Rushing heart or fast heartbeat
* Excessive sweating or perspiration
* Bodily shaking or shuddering
* Feeling as if you’re about to choke
* Feeling out of air
* Upper body discomfort (commonly causing quite a few to think they’re having a heart attack)
* Queasy or a sinking feeling in the stomach
* Confusion or dizziness
* Light-headed feelings
* Derealization (feeling as if you are in a dream or as if everything is not real)
* Depersonalization (away from your body or that you do not exist)
* Anxieties you may go crazy
* A numb feeling in your face, hands, or toes (called “tetany,” that may be caused by intense deep breathing)
* Chilly or burning flashes
* Skin becoming pale or losing color
* Blushing
* Acute urges to use the restroom
* Troubling or scary thoughts
* Muscular cramping in the shoulders or neck
On top of that, following a anxiety attack, many people will form a fear of experiencing a second panic attack. This often leads to these people avoiding certain situations or spots they now link with their original anxiety attack. This “low-volume” of chronic panic that comes after a panic attack is known as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
It is also essential that you understand that, no matter how scary your anxiety attack symptoms could be (and they usually are quite terrifying at times), you are not in any true danger. Nobody has ever died from a panic attack. So find comfort in the thought that what you are experiencing will go away and that it won’t leave you with any damage to your body or mind.
Once again, these are only a few of the regular panic attack symptoms you may experience. You may feel all of these, or simply a few. If you experience lots of symptoms, it doesn’t always signify your condition is worse than if you’ve just experienced a small number of them. And this is under any circumstances an thorough list. It is possible to suffer from a panic attack and not experience any of the above symptoms at all.
If you found this article helpful and you’d like to learn more about mood and anxiety disorders and how to deal with them, check out Symptoms of Anxiety Attacks and Stopping a Panic Attack.