Symptoms of Anxiety Attacks Varies

The symptoms of anxiety attacks are most profound when changes occurred in the behavior, psychological and body symptoms. The stress response could be triggered by either a real or imaginary threat.

If you have a phobia over rats, then you may be distressed when you see a real rat or even on your pc screen, and the response will be the same in either situation.

In the case of social anxiety disorders an individual afraid of public speaking would feel just as fearful and panicky if actually asked to make a speech at a certain event, as he would he only believed that he would be asked.

Children can suffer separation anxiety, but not all anxiety attacks are related to a specific threat or phobia, and these are usually known as a generalized anxiety disorder.

When one experienced an anxiety attack, the bodily responses that you are likely to experience include raised blood pressure, muscular tension, breathing faster, sweating, panting, palpitations, and digestive changes. This is the body’s normal response to a challenge (fight or flight response) and is ideal if you about to compete in a sports event, because without these physical changes, you would be sluggish instead of ready for action, but of course for a home situation it is not appropriate.

The psychological changes of anxiety affect the way you think, feel and cope when under stress, and include irritability, being short-tempered and can at times even include a sense of well being. These responses are ideal if your child is standing near the edge of a cliff and you need to be able to take action to avoid an accident, but not appropriate for the home environment.

The behavioral changes are usually forms of caution or escape, and vital reactions if you find yourself in a dangerous situation. These symptoms of anxiety attacks can give you the burst of energy and strength you need to avert potential disaster.

Further, when our responses are over activated there will be a build up of stress hormones leading to possible headaches, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, chronic fatigue, lupus, allergies and rheumatoid arthritis.

The problem when these responses are activated, and symptoms of anxiety attacks are experienced, is that our rational mind has been bypassed and we tend to see everything as a threat to our survival. This state of alert moves us into attack mode, thinking is distorted, fear exaggerated and we can be melodramatic over the slightest comment.

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