How to Prevent Panic Attacks

If you have had panic attacks for a long time now, then you already know what the panic attack symptoms are. From hyperventilating to fainting, and everything else in between; the whole enchilada if you want to put it that way. However, have you ever come to consider what your body experiences while having all the symptoms? If you ever did, then let me go ahead and describe the symptoms of panic attack and try to be a little thorough in discussing each.

So let us begin with talking about the fir st sign which is hyperventilation or the feeling of being drowned. I have never drowned in my lifetime but I certainly know the feeling when you have had a hyperventilation. The feeling is similar to running for an hour in a very fast pace and then you stop to find your breath. You have a faster intake of breathes and you also have a hurting chest.

So mainly, you get to have hyperventilation because your body feels that you lack oxygen and your chest is also constricting. But the faster you breathe, the shallower your breathing becomes and so, you still acquire less oxygen.

So, because of the uneven breathing, it results to another symptom which I will discuss – fainting. So, most individuals actually faint when they have panic attacks but it is not true to all of them. This is in fact linked to too much loss of carbon dioxide and deficiency of oxygen in the brain. There is really not much harm in fainting, what is dangerous is banging your head in a hard object in the process.

One more familiar sign is tachycardia or palpitations. The sympathetic nervous response of our body causes our heart rate to increase. When you are very stressed, your body thinks that it is under attack from the inside or outside that it triggers the sympathetic nervous response. This response will prepare you to either battle what is causing your stress or literally run away from it.

How will your body be equipped by it? This can happen by giving the concentration to the organs like lungs, heart and brain that you will need for “battle”. To set the organs, oxygen from the blood must be provided to them. What better method to do that than for your heart to pump more rapidly right?

The next sign I will talk about is also because of the sympathetic nervous response; it is called diaphoresis or too much sweating. The excessive sweating is actually because of the increased metabolism when you are having attacks.

Panic attack symptoms like upset stomach, changes in the bowel movement and trembling have not been discussed here yet. In general, the sympathetic nervous response is the reason for all those symptoms. The important thing that you should realize though is that the symptoms will not kill you.

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