Anxiety Panic Symptoms

Symptoms of panic and anxiety attacks are mainly divided into physical and emotional. The disordered condition presents a mix of such symptoms, which are very much important to distinguish. Panic or anxiety attacks are common, but how exactly very few people know that they are already having one. Now people should know the symptoms of panic attacks anxiety. There may be different anxiety panic symptoms that this condition can show, but there are key symptoms that people should watch out for.

The symptoms of panic anxiety are generally divided into two, the physical ones and the emotional ones. The physical symptoms of the disorder are the ones that could be easily felt by the person having the attack, and be observed by other people. Very rapid heart beats and palpitations are just some of the most common types of symptoms. There are cases too that people may feel dizzy and even faint or have loss of consciousness.

The emotional symptoms of panic anxiety attacks, on the other hand, are quite hard to pinpoint out since the only person that could tell is the one that is having the attack. But the actual problem is that, most of the time, when attacks occur; the person having the attack may find it hard to speak. That is the reason why he or she may not be able to tell other people what he or she is feeling. In turn the sufferer having the attack may not be able to ask others for help, which makes the condition even more dangerous.

Pounding heart, sweating, palpitations, or accelerated heart rate, trembling or shaking, sensations of shortness of breath or smothering, feeling of choking, chest pain or discomfort, nausea or abdominal distress, dizziness, fainting, fear of losing control, going crazy, fear of dying, chills or hot flushes are some of the immediate changes that the body suffers on account of an anxiety attack.

The immediate symptoms proceeding of an anxiety attack include signs of a strong feeling of dread on the patient's face, loss of control, trembling and shaking, sweating, hot flushes, tense muscles and dry mouth. Moments before a sufferer goes into an attack, he or she may complain of being lightheaded, dizzy or congestion in the chest. The number of anxiety panic symptoms that one experiences does not dictate the severity of the attack. Someone can gave an anxiety attack with just a few symptoms listed above, and someone can first experience a cascade of all these before they precipitate into an attack. Some people experience anxiety panic attacks but never actually have any symptoms.

A number of biological changes occurring within the disorders are responsible for these symptoms, which leave the patient totally worn out and depressed. Also since muscle tension is one of the panic symptoms; it leaves the patient totally distressed at the end of the attack. Tension in the head and neck muscles due to anxiety attack often lead to headaches and migraines, accompanied by facial numbness. Also tensions that occur in the chest part on account of breathlessness are the causes of rib pain or tender breasts. All these secondary effects of panic disorder impair the sensations around mouth, face, cheek and jaw.

• Cassandra Bagley
• 19/03/2009, 10:59 PM
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