Anxiety: The Major Reason behind Panic Attacks

Posted by Peptex Labs on January 2nd, 2019

With so much stress and hypertension, panic attacks have started to become a common phenomenon among people. Anxiety is the most common reason behind panic attacks. What is Anxiety? It is important that we realize how anxiety steps into our lives. And once we understand how anxiety crops up and make out hypnosis for panic attacks, we can definitely help anyone defeat panic attacks.

Understanding Anxiety

High anxiety is harmful and can result in a number of life-threatening conditions. Anxiety is a state of mind or fear that results from the anticipation of an imagined or real threat, event or situation. It is one of the most common human emotions that are experienced by almost everyone in a point of time in their lives. Most of the people who have experienced a panic attack or have gone through extreme anxiety, do not understand the gravity of the situation.

Self-hypnosis of anxiety helps us to understand that panic attacks are accompanied with extreme dizziness, blurred visions, tingling in hands and feet and feeling of breathlessness. All these situations are just the tip of the iceberg. When the situation occurs, people fail to realize that they are actually going through a serious mental condition that needs to be taken care of.

Panic attack patients have a fear of losing control over something or any situation and that fear makes the entire situation really terrifying.

Effects of Panic Attacks

1. Respiratory Issues- The scariest effects of a panic attack is the fear of getting suffocated. It should be understood that panic attacks are accompanied with tightness in chest and throat and so many fear that they might stop breathing. Anxiety grows from the fear that your breathing will cease and you would never be able to recover. The fact is that panic attacks will never stop your breathing.

Panic attacks are related to the increase in the speed and depth of breathing. It is but obvious that your body creates a defence mechanism to fight such situations and hence they tissues require more oxygen to prepare for action. Thus the feelings produced by this increase in breathing cause breathlessness.

The side effect of increased breathing is that the supply of blood to the head gets decreased. This decreased amount oxygen may not be life-threatening but is unnatural and therefore causes dizziness, blurred vision, confusion, etc.

2. Physical Effects- Panic attacks have certain physical effects as well since the sympathetic nervous system gets activated. The pupils widen to let in more light and results in blurred visions. The salivation decreases resulting in dry mouth and there is minimal activity in the digestive system that causes nausea and feeling heaviness in the stomach. Some also experience constipation. Certain muscles in the body tighten up for the fight which results in the feeling of tension and causes actual aches and pains, sometimes trembling and shaking.

This is a serious mental condition and consulting a hypnotherapist in North Texas is always suggested.