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What Causes Anxiety Attacks & Why Am I Having These Attacks? PDF   E-mail
Written by Marquis Walls   
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Imagine if you'll that you're walking down the street on a pleasant spring day feeling hopeful about life itself when all of a sudden you are feeling something elbow you from behind. You turn around to see that a 8 foot tall grizzly bear is staring you in the eye and is preparing to attack. The feeling you'll experience is grim anxiety to straight out panic, which is ordinary due to the situation. However , what actually causes these anxiety attacks is a signal in an organ of the brain called the amygdala. It's the part of your Grey matter that deals with reacting to legit threats.
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Imagine if you'll that you're walking down the street on a pleasant spring day feeling upbeat about life itself when all of a sudden you are feeling something nudge you from behind. You turn around to see that a 8 foot tall grizzly bear is staring you in the eye and is preparing to attack. The feeling you'll experience is severe anxiety to straight out panic, which is normal because of the situation. However , what actually causes these anxiety attacks is a signal in an organ of the brain called the amygdala. It is the part of your brain that deals with reacting to legit threats.

The example above describes what causes anxiety attacks in a valid situation. But what are just some of the illegitimate causes? Depression, drug and alcohol abuse, diseases, side-effects of medications or a family history of anxiety attacks are all triggers that hikes up your opportunities to have anxiety. Treating these other issues before dealing with the anxiety can turn out to be advantages for plenty of folks.

If you have mates and relatives you can lean on to help in working with anxiety that's a huge help. Opening up and talking to folk you trust can go a long way and curing the condition but if these same folks are somehow the reason for anxiety in your life you should keep away from them at least till you can deal with the problem. There's just one person who can define who's helping and who's obstructing your problem and that individual is you.

If you are attempting to help somebody else understand what's causing their anxiety, first educate yourself before attempting to help them. Although these attacks are "all in the mind", informing somebody of this fact won't always help the symptoms to disappear. Instead, pay attention carefully and patiently to what's happening in their life. Don't rush to "help" them with suggestions. Unless you're a trained professional, don't act like it. You may do more harm than help.

In concluding let me first say congratulations on reading this article. It may actually be your first step in overcoming your anxiety or helping someone that suffers with anxiety attacks symptoms. Believing you can change means you can start finding methods to overcome your anxiety. Folks who don't think they can change will never look for help and in fact, may never find a remedy for their status.

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