Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Have you ever experienced the terrifying sensations of panic attacks?
Do you suffer from anxiety or its associated symptoms?

If so, you are not alone.
More and more people right across the world are reporting to suffer from anxiety disorders and panic attacks.

Temporary feelings of nervousness or worry in stressful situations are natural. However, when anxiety becomes a general feeling in many ordinary situations and causes problems in everyday life it is diagnosed as abnormal.

What are the psychological symptoms?

• sense of nameless foreboding with no obvious reason or cause
• being nervous, being on edge and unable to relax
• impaired concentration
• repetitive worrying thoughts
• disturbed sleep and sometimes nightmares.

In addition, you may have symptoms of depression, such as early waking or a general sense of hopelessness.

Physical symptoms, which occur intermittently:

• headache
• dry mouth, copious amounts of saliva
• tics
• desire to urinate and defecate
• abdominal cramps, bloating, sometimes with diarrhea and vomiting
• frequent urination
• sweating, flushing and tremor
• feeling hot or cold
• a feeling of something being stuck in the throat.

 What are the usual symptoms of a panic attack?

• shortness of breath
• sweating, trembling and nausea
• palpitations (awareness of an abnormally rapid heartbeat)
• feeling the need to escape
• dizziness and fainting
• fear of choking, suffocation or of imminent death
• sense of unreality and fears about loss of sanity.

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