One day, you wake up, look around and realize that your life has spun out of control. Your life, once so normal has become like a nightmare. Your job, your personal life, your family, your peace of mind has all been disturbed and you feel powerless to make any change or improvement.

The source of this disturbance is the anxiety that has invaded your life and come home to roost in a seemingly permanent manner.

Everyone experiences panic; we would simply be robots if we didn’t. While these feelings of distress may be normal in small, isolated doses, they should not be a pervasive, all consuming fire that threatens your sanity with every step and action.

For anxiety sufferers, the feelings of distress are constant companions that cannot be shaken, that cannot be reasoned with and cannot be easily tamed. The resulting stress from having to contend with such an overwhelming dread leaves many sufferers exhausted and miserable.

Sustained angst can have physical manifestations that can severely affect your health. Some of these affects include:

• A rapid heartbeat

• Difficulty breathing

• Dizziness

• Loss of sensation or tingling in your hands and feet.

• Disorientation

• Sweating

It’s still worth a debate whether a person can have this attack. However, the vast majority of professionals who deals with this often affirm that this anxiety attack does exist. They even have outlined the symptoms of mild anxiety attack.

The first major series of symptoms is the feeling of fear. It’s a fear that wasn’t provoked in the first place. Before you know it, fear is already creeping in your body and you can’t stop it. It will be long before your body will react to this situation.

Your system will naturally react by releasing adrenalin to your body. Adrenalin could be good in certain condition and in this situation; it will trigger symptoms of mild anxiety attack. One of these symptoms you’ll immediately notice is heart palpitations. Your heart rate increases quite fast and you practically feel that it’s pounding really hard in your chest. The next reaction is dizziness and a feeling of light headedness. Everything becomes unreal and you think it’s not the same anymore, things will change and you’ll think you’re not there anymore. Lastly you may feel that you are about to die. This feeling of doom is natural to all of the panic attacks. A sense of danger and in the end the feeling of dying is always there.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD for short is usually diagnosed by a doctor through a process of elimination based on the symptoms you present. It is a hard condition to diagnose because many of the symptoms related to this problem can also be present in other conditions.

This problem involves severe anxiety over a period of at least six months but you don’t have to contend with panic attacks or other problems related to phobias and obsessions. When struggling with GAD, you have persistent, excessive worry over at least two aspects of your life although most sufferers find they deal with many more troubling thoughts.

The stress for GAD sufferers usually focuses on money, health, relationships or school or job performance. The worry that you feel is not just occasional and related to specific events like an interview or a coming promotion but persistent, excessive and time consuming.

In order to be diagnosed with this problems the anxiety needs to make you upset and interfere with your ability to maintain successful relationships or perform properly at your job. Hampering your ability to function is a key component of the diagnosis but it is also the reason this condition poses so many problems to sufferers.

Do you have excessive or unwanted anxiety? Do you wish you were more confident and relaxed? Do you want to be able to take on new situations and experiences without fear?

If you suffer from any kind of worry there are ways to soothe yourself, calm yourself and relax your mind. Confidence and self esteem are the ways we get noticed in our society. Employers hire and promote confident, engaging people more readily and confident men and women find dating and meeting potential mates a lot easier. There are so many facets of life where fear can hamper you. Getting rid of or controlling the apprehension can have a profoundly positive effect on your life.

Anxiety is our body’s normal reaction to uncomfortable stimulus. Uneasiness can crop up in a wide variety of situations, some of them common, some of them not. You could become exceptionally nervous when talking to your boss, talking to a pretty girl or handsome guy or driving to work.

You can experience anxiety anywhere; in the supermarket, at the movie theater, at your friends wedding or at your child’s school play. You could have a panic attack at the hair salon, while getting a manicure or talking to friends.

Anxiety has a way of making you disconnect from those that care about you and those you care about. It is a creeping fear that makes you doubt yourself, heightens your discomfort and makes you feel awkward and inept.

After struggling with your fears, doubts and worries for so long and devoting substantial effort to keep them hidden from others because that´s what anxiety sufferers do, you are left exhausted and unable to muster the strength to interact with your family and friends.

Pretty soon, going out to dinner with your family becomes a chore, seeing your friends´ becomes a hassle and you would rather stay at home in comfort than deal with the struggle.

This scenario is one of the reasons so many anxiety sufferers become depressed. They feel cut off and alone and often have no one to talk to or confide in about their problems.

The shame and fear are the most overpowering emotions, leaving you to contend with your anxiety and panic attacks in private. It’s important to have someone, at least one person to talk to about your situation.

You will really be surprised how much more open, accepting and understanding people are than you thought they would be.

Someone who cares about you is not going to look at you like you have three heads if you tell them you can´t go to the theater because it makes you anxious.