Understanding Common Anxiety Symptoms
Advisory announcements regarding medical and health conditions like heart attacks or seizures are showing up all over our television these days. TV and radio ads show us what to do should we experience light headedness, passing out, numbness, etc. However, very seldom will we hear an ad describing common anxiety symptoms, which is especially inconsiderate considering thousands of us experience them and are very confused by them.
Feeling anxiety symptoms is very common in our modern culture, since we exposed to high pressure events on a sporadic basis. Whether it is the dread that we may be off-course in an foreign city or we’re going to be late for a very important event or if the cell phone rings unexpectedly, we all face panic at some point in our day. Lots of people on the other hand may have anxiety symptoms for what appears to be no cause at all, and may misconstrue these symptoms with the symptoms of having a heart attack or some alternate medical condition. Those who suffer from panic attacks regularly confuse these symptoms.
Anxiety disorder symptoms are definitely different for everyone, and frequently it's clear that you're simply feeling anxiety – immediately before speaking in front of others, when we’re about to tie the knot, when you open your front door and see a weird looking stranger standing there; these situations could easily make anyone tense and nervous! However for many of us, anxiety symptoms can also include shortness of breath, heart contractions, vommiting, chest pains, constricted breathing, tingling or numbness in the fingers, face, or toes. Stomach aches, and headaches are not uncommon either. You can understand how these could actually be confused with a heart attack or asthma or any type of other conditions.
If you exeprience these anxiety symptoms on a sporadic basis, and particularly if they happen to occur for no reason, you should probably visit your doctor. For starters, you will want to rule out the chances of it being a cardiac arrest or something that severe. Then, he or she can prescribe pills or therapy that could help you live with the anxiety symptoms while at the same time working with you to discover why you're tense and anxious to begin with. You might have some chemical imbalances in the brain or may need to practice a number of new positive techniques on how to think about a situation so that you’ll be able to avoid the start of an anxiety attack before it gets too severe.
I managed to beat my anxiety disorder after years of struggle and pulling my family through the terror with me. The program I used was completely natural, medication-free and didn’t require lengthy therapy – I’m overjoyed to report that I’ve been free of anxiety for a number of years now, I only wish I had found it years earlier.
You can find out more about the program that saved my sanity at my how to cure anxiety blog.
