Article by Michael
As you should know by now, anxiety is a healthy and normal emotion that everyone experiences. It is the body’s natural reaction to a stimulus that pushes the decision to either “fight” or “flight” during a situation. However, when anxiety attacks are irrational, chronic, severe, and start affecting the overall health of a person, whether it be emotionally, psychologically, or physically, it turns into a problem that must be dealt with right away. Do not be confused though because there is a rather thick line between healthy and unhealthy anxiety attacks and you will be able to tell the difference. Unfortunately, this is often overlooked by doctors who tell you there is nothing to worry about and you are perfectly fine.
Anxiety is a general term which houses various different classifications under its name. There are six main types of anxiety disorder and they all have different and unique characteristics: generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GAD is a chronic worry or fear over everyday tasks without even knowing why. People with GAD show symptoms such as fatigue, stomach upset, insomnia, sweating, and restlessness. If you have GAD you will often be worried that bad things will happen and have a feeling of anxiousness about day to day activities.
2. Panic Disorder
This is when you have unexpected and repeated panic attacks. You actually fear the panic attack itself and are afraid that another one will occur any moment without warning. Many people with panic disorder are likely to have agoraphobia; the fear of being in places where help or escape will be difficult to reach you. If you have agoraphobia, you may be afraid of being trapped in confined places such as an elevator, airplane, or overly crowded places.
3. Social Anxiety Disorder
This is the fear of being humiliated in public, or seen negatively by people. Being shy is what people often call this. It is okay to be shy; everyone is over certain things in their life. However, people with bad cases of social anxiety disorder may isolate themselves from people, public events and places, and will tend to be alone. The most common form of social anxiety is stage fright which everyone has.
4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
More commonly referred to as OCD, this is a condition where a person has uncontrollable and undesired thoughts or behavior. People with OCD may have particular obsessions such as worries that they forgot to turn the light off, or wanting everything they do to be perfect. Some of the most common OCD symptoms are frequent hand washing, re-checking something numerous times, and hoarding useless junk in fear that something bad might happen if thrown away.
5. Phobias
A phobia is usually a senseless, foolish, and over exaggerated fear of simple things that usually present little or no danger at all. A person can have a phobia of anything there is, some of the most common ones being: dark, spiders, heights, swimming, snakes, and flying. People with phobias will most often try to avoid the things they are afraid of, but avoiding your fear instead of facing it only tends to worsen the phobia.
6. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a classification of anxiety that happens after a dramatic or life-threatening event takes place. People with PTSD can show symptoms such as avoiding situations or places that remind them about the event, isolation, flashbacks, nightmares, and frightening easily.
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What do 325 Facebook friends, one romance novelist, and a New Year’s resolution have in common?
They are the topic of an upcoming documentary called “Face to Facebook” about a woman who went on a year-long journey to overcome her fear of people and leaving her home.
Writer Arlynn Presser spent December 2010 isolated and mostly housebound because of panic attacks and anxiety. Although the 51-year-old had over 300 friends on Facebook, she realized that most of them were people she had never met. At the end of the year she made a resolution to spend 2011 traveling the world to meet these people she had only ever talked with online. Many she had met through the online Scrabble game.
Some did not agree to meet her, some unfriended her, but over the course of the year she was able to visit 292 of her 325 friends in countries around the world; quite an accomplishment for someone previously afraid to board planes and trains.
What can we take away from her huge accomplishment? Although her primary issue was panic disorder, people with social anxiety disorder (SAD) might find themselves in similar situations; you might have a lot of acquaintances (either online or offline) but not have made the effort to really get to know any of them.
How would you feel about making 2012 the year to turn some of those casual acquaintances into good friends?
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Question by Ronald S: Could anybody who has experience with “panic or anxiety attacks” please describe what they are like?
I am having a difficult time understanding this.
I have heard that some people cant even leave far from home because they are afraid of having another “panic attack”.
Please anyone who has experience with this condition, would you please desribe them for me?
what is it like? what do they think about that makes them afraid?
What usually triggers them?
how long does it take to go away?
and what is the best cure for them? (Is there one??)
Also , what is usually the root cause of this condition??
How often, do they occur in the average sufferer??
Best answer:
Answer by katana
a long time ago i used to have cash register jobs and i was once a deli girl. I would get panic attacks when i would have a lot of frustrated customers in line all staring at me and I was glued to that spot behind the register with no way out to calm myself down. . at first i would wonder why it bothered me a little and after a while it just got so bad that i ran out of the store when people just stood there staring at me. this is what a panic attack feels like. You start to sweat, lose concentration, breath faster, get very red faced and than people say why is your face red. Which of course made it redder. And you feel very unfocused. And people notice all that and focus more on you and of course it makes it worse. So my way to get over my attacks is get a nursing position where i am not glued to one spot all day. I found out that moving around and constantly changing my scenery helps me be better focused and have less panic attacks.
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Filed under Panic Attacks by on Jan 8th, 2012.