Everyone experiences anxiety as a normal course of events in our daily lives and we now know that this is for most people a positive part of personal experience.   But, it is when this occurs regularly and with significant impact on our daily lives – especially regarding other than serious issues – that we should start to consider that there may be something else at work here – a burgeoning anxiety disorder condition. 

The question tends most often to be one that questions how much is significant and how often is too often for us to have these feelings.  More importantly, but, is not how often but how severe the reaction is and how much negativity it injects into our daily lives.  While not an simple answer to make, science tends to agree on the frequency and severity of the effect on your daily life that produces the right answer.

Don’t try to make a self-diagnosis with one of those – Are you worse off than you were yesterday-type assessment techniques, as they are comparative in nature rather than independent and empirical.   Therefore, it is prudent to consider an emphatic and systematic approach that attempts to assign a ‘significance’ factor to the possibility of a panic attack based more upon empirical rather than comparative, i.e comparing present to past experience levels, approaches.  Here are some obvious questions and the related empirical quantification:

1.  Do you experience a level of worry or anxiety that stays with you for more than several seconds on a regular basis throughout your day.  Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

2.  Do you tend to see the outcome of potential problems as being BOTH negative and severe?

Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

3.  Do you tend to remember past, negative experiences as being more severe than they really were?

Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

4.  Do you have the same feeling or worry about an issue or problem more than once during the same day?  Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

5.  Do you re-live or re-ponder negative thoughts of the day as you prepare for sleep and arise?

Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

6.  Do you find yourself pondering a potential issue or problem with a greater level of worry or greater level of expected severity-of-outcome? Seldom?  Occasionally?  Often?

If you answer ‘Often’ to 3 or more of these questions, you probably have a growing level of anxiety and you might experience an anxiety attack.

A panic attack is a sudden rush of physical and mental discomfort or trauma caused by unknown or known sources. Panic attacks could be generated through terrible traffic, a stressful morning, or nothing at all. Generally, there are a series of symptoms that are experienced that typically signal the onslaught of an anxiety or panic attack. The symptoms can include anything from sweating profusely to having extreme heart palpitations. Getting anxiety attack help can be hard because of the unpredictability of these attacks.

Is there a pattern to your attacks?

Although panic attacks may seem to be random to some, there are really a fantastic number of factors and biochemical processes that occur during a panic attack that make it anything but chaotic at the outset. Our bodies react to challenges or threats in plotted or systemic fashion – unless learned or unlearned by therapy. So, it stands to reason that if your body is trained to react poorly through a number of factors the likelihood that you will experience a panic attack is significantly greater than a healthier person.

For example, the likelihood of a generally out of shape individual with poor time management skills and poor stress management skills of experiencing a panic attack in a stressful situation is significantly higher than that of a well adjusted person that is confident with their time and stress management skills. This is because their bodies are trained to handle the situations while conversely the body types that are not will inevitably react poorly.

Get Help

Getting anxiety attack help can, therefore, be as simple as eating properly and taking excellent care of yourself.  Maintaining a excellent healthy diet and avoiding the obvious sugars and salt can have an nearly immediate effect.  Regular exercise is also integral to this goal, as well as regular rest and relaxation. Taking the time to delight in life is some of the best anxiety attack help you can give yourself.  Most of all, it is critical to recognize that an Anxiety Disorder can be effectively dealt with, once the determination to do so exists.

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