Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Who Gets it and Why

By Gordon Dalwood

Anxiety and panic attacks can be acquired through many different factors. It affects people not only for one single reason. There are many things that are happening to people each day that cause them to have anxiety and panic attacks. Continue reading to know more about the factors of anxiety and panic attacks.

Some people are genetically sensitive to anxiety and panic more than others. This means that they tend to get more nervous than others even if the situation is just a minor one or just a slight factor for tension. These people are called as naturally high strung because of this high sensitivity.

If you are going through a tough situation in your life it is easy to feel anxiety over it. Many people today are anxious over their finances and how they are going to pay their bills. This may even make some people have full-blown panic attacks over their situations. Of course this is one of the more normal reasons to feel anxiety and panic.

Another common problem is depression. People who are depressed normally feel worried, stressed, and anxious. This factor will even make the person to think irrationally, especially in situations where correct thinking is expected. Anxiety due to factors like this could lead to panic attacks.

Also anything that makes you have altered thinking such as taking certain drugs (legal or illegal) or imbibing in alcoholic beverages. These can distort your thinking and rationing abilities so you may not be able to keep yourself calm when needed. When your going into anxiety mode in your mind there is always a possibility of a panic attack occurring.

Panic attacks have a tendency to be recurrent after attacking a person once. If you have already experienced a panic attack, you may develope a tendency to this in different situations. The fear of anxiety could lead you to another panic attack.

Panic attacks can be a vicious cycle because of this fact. Left untreated you can go through many panic attacks on a regular basis. These can strip you from a normal life, instead your days are all about trying to prevent these attacks, or being afraid to do anything.

You may have experienced a traumatic incident in your life that you are afraid of its recurrence. Because of this fear, the after effects of such incidence could be anxiety and fear. If you let this fear to overcome you and to trouble you, this anxiety will tend to become panic attacks later on.

As you can see by this article most anyone could at one point in their lives feel anxiety. Not all people suffer panic attacks but they could. Anyone could have a situation at one time or another in their lives that they could have a panic attack over. But you should also be aware that there are some very good medications, traditional therapies, and alternative therapies that can help you relieve and rid yourself of anxiety and panic attacks. - 30309

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