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Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. In normal instances it helps us deal with tense situations in life. But when it becomes excessive it can become incapacitating to the affected individual and disrupt daily life.
There are situations where a sudden and overwhelming sensation of anxiety becomes too much to handle and one can experience a sensation called a Panic Attack. These attacks are sudden surges of overpowering fear. This fear comes without warning and most of the time without any obvious reason. Compared to anxiety, this is a far more intense and debilitating experience all together.
Those who are affected by these panic attacks and have full-blown repeated attacks can become very disabled. Their condition can cause them to be fearful of going out in public or going to work for fear of having a sudden attack.
Panic attacks often times lead to other complications such as phobias, depressions, substance abuse, medical complications, even suicide. Panic attacks cause the person¡¯s life to dramatically change. Panic attacks bring on the most complex and sudden changes known in the human body. It is experienced as overwhelming, uncontrollable dread, fear, and makes one feel as if they are terribly ill or about to die or lose their mind. It changes the physical functions of the major glands, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, eyes, and the largest muscle group of the body. |
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