With any anxiety panic attack symptom, you very well know it belongs to a group of anxiety-related mental disorders category. Don’t we always think the category only affects certain people until it happens to us? Social anxieties, simple panic attacks and other anxiety disorders can affect anyone out there these days. And the longer an anxiety victim avoids dealing with each anxiety panic attack symptom, the more chances he or she has to develop a devastating agoraphobia condition.
One day you are fine, the next day an anxiety monster terror messes up your day for the first time. As a first timer, you are unprepared, scared out of your wits looking for answers in order to make sense of what just happened. The symptoms could mean anything from a heart attack to loosing your mind completely while expecting to die any moment.
Armed with your anxiety panic attack symptom diary you decide to visit your doctor just to hear that there’s nothing wrong with you on the physical level. You may even hear for the first time that it’s ALL in your head.
Crikey!
Okay, so what’s next? You have another one of these panic attacks. And you begin to think about your “head” being “unwell” – especially in certain situations. There’s your first clue to notice what your reaction to it all is. See, a panic attack is not a physical condition. A lot of mental activity goes on in your head and the Amygdala part of your brain is just having a party – so to speak.
You begin to notice that having an anxiety panic attack symptom one after another leads to a decision. Since having them is embarrassing and certain situations bring them about in a flash, you start to develop – agoraphobia – even without noticing it.
What is this “agora-phobia” anyway?
It’s a condition where an individual doesn’t wish to go places or face situations where they could potentially have fully blown panic attacks. The word “agoraphobia” lets us know the nature of this incapacitating state of living. ‘Agora’ comes from the Greek root word and means places where people meet; a marketplace if you will. “Phobia” stands for “fear” in Greek. Then people who suffer from “agoraphobia” have a fear of being in crowded places… and begin to avoid them because they’d rather have a panic attack in a “safe place” which public places are not – in the sufferer’s mind.
Agoraphobia develops gradually after each panic attack (especially if an anxiety attack panic treatment is left out). After the first attack you may begin preparing for another attack and fearing the symptoms that will leave you feeling helpless, tired and scared even more. An irrational mental cycle develops from here on. This cycle of panic attack and impending panic attack can cause you to change your entire lifestyle just to avoid those feelings of terror and anguish. As panic attacks can occur anywhere at anytime, we commonly associate the first place that we feel helpless as possibly the reason for our terror.
A typical agoraphobia sufferer will go out of his or her way to avoid those places and situations that may bring on a panic attack. Some even decide to stay housebound as a way of avoiding being in crowded, unfamiliar, deemed “unsafe” places.
Developing such an unhealthy lifestyle of “fear living” can in itself trigger agoraphobic attacks to crop up in everyday ordinary situations. The anxiety panic attack symptom of increased heart rate may also cause a panic attack because you may think that you’re having a heart attack.
Isn’t it tiring and seems “unjustly” punishing just reading about it?
It’s time for a natural cure for panic attack. Learn how to eliminate every single anxiety panic attack symptom before the vicious and incapacitating “agoraphobia” roots itself deeper and deeper.
Once panic attacks spiral into agoraphobia, a restricted lifestyle and increasing fear of being helpless makes a recovery that much harder than it already appears to be (but there’s a way – I know from a my own horrifying example).
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