Help and advice
Most people often wonder whether there is a connection between panic attacks and depression. Researchers and analysts feel that there is indeed a strong connection between both the conditions.
Here is a detailed description to make you understand better:
First, it has been proved via a research and strong analyze that chronic pain disorder can result into depression. The condition is most common in people who get exhausted easily from the chronic anxiety that accompanies panic attacks.
Panic Disorder is a distinct but related condition to panic attacks. These attacks are isolated instances of 4 or more of the below listed symptoms. Your attacks cross over into a panic disorder if:
1) you have had two or more attacks and
2) at least one of these attacks has been followed by an extended period of concern, one month or more of having a repeat episode. The second requirement is crucial to a panic disorder diagnosis.
Here are some of the symptoms sufferers will experience:
o Problems breathing
o Rapid or irregular heartbeat
o Chest pain
You Haven’t Died Yet! This is really the key to managing, controlling and curing your panic attacks. Anxiety disorders take such a powerful hold because we let them,
o we think the worst things
o believe the worst things
o feel the worst things
because we would have it so. Rather than believing the worst, try to believe the best.
Have your panic attacks killed you yet? No…. they haven´t! You may have thought you were dying the first time it happened, but once you figured out it wasn’t a heart attack and the doctor sent you on your way, didn´t you understand what it was the next time?
Anxiety disorder has become quite common these days because of today’s hectic life. Everyone is running to achieve success; so it is obvious for anyone to get anxious at times due to some unforeseen situations. But when does an actual problem begins? Well, it begins with the excessive increase in the anxiety level or in other words when it gets out of proportion and the person gets overwhelmed. This condition is usually termed as ‘Generalized Anxiety Disorder’.
According to the World Health Organization, women are the primary sufferers of anxiety and depression. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reports that women are TWICE as likely as men to suffer anxiety disorders.
Anxiety disorders include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Social Phobia or Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and other phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Any one of these is problem enough. Unfortunately, according to NIMH statistics, most women with one anxiety disorder also suffer from another.
Anxiety disorders over stimulate a number of bodily systems which would normally remain at a constant level. Digestion, circulation and breathing are heavily affected by anxiety and, whilst anxiety can’t harm you, efficient balancing of bodily systems is necessary for good all round health. The good news is that no matter how anxiety affects you, from mild shyness to the extreme manifestation of panic disorder, OCD and phobias, there is much that you can do right now to regain balance and peace in your body.
These are my top tips to live a healthier, anxiety free life:
1. Food
1, 2, 3 – panic! Make yourself have a panic attack right now. Go ahead, try it. You probably won’t have any luck. Why? Because even though I’m telling you to do it, there’s nothing really to panic over at this moment and you have decided not to have a panic attack.
Just as you decide not to have a panic attack, you also decide to have a panic attack. This sounds pretty crazy doesn’t it? After all, aren’t panic attacks out of your control?
A spontaneous panic attack is just that, it pops up, out of the blue, at a random time, in a random place. The problem with spontaneous panic attacks is that they create a great deal of uncertainty, leading to situational panic attacks.
If you have a panic attack in the nail salon, you then associate your susceptibility to panic attacks with being closed in and confined. Suddenly, you fear going to the hair salon, going to a concert, a sporting event or any place that doesn’t have an easy exit.
I used to suffer with general anxiety disorder and you can read a personal account of my suffering on my personal blog. The address is given at the end of the article. This article is to provide you with an understanding of what GAD is and how you can combat the effects.
OK so what is GAD
There are many definitions of what anxiety actually is – one of the best I have come across is: “Anxiety is essentially a message from the unconscious mind to concentrate on the things you want to happen rather than the things that you really don’t want to happen.”
Generally speaking, many Anxiety disorders can lead to an irrational reaction by someone to a given situation. This can be either emotional or physical or even both. Sometimes the emotional or physical reactions are so bad that a person could be prevented from carrying out normal day to day activities and tasks that most of us would take for granted.