Signs, Symptoms and Causes of Anxiety Attack

Most of us suffer from anxiety at some point in our lives. For some, it’s just simple stress and depression because of a current situation or event. For others, anxiety causes pain and involves symptoms such as sweating, trembling, nausea and racing heartbeat and may also lead to panic attacks and all kinds of frightening anxiety disorders, such as agoraphobia.

Therefore, understanding the signs and symptoms of an anxiety attack are important to differentiate between an outright anxiety attack or just being afraid and feeling overwhelmed.

Often an anxiety attack will include many of the following physical and emotional symptoms:

• A sudden, overwhelming, feeling of panic
• Feeling like you are losing your mind
• The feeling that you are losing control
• An increase in heart rate followed by chest pain
• Heart palpitations (abnormal beating of the heart)
• Dyspnea (trouble breathing)
• Dizziness to the point of feeling like you will pass out
• Hyperventilation
• Sweating
• Feeling hot or cold (suddenly and without reason)
• Shakiness
• Tunnel vision
• Nausea and pain in the stomach
• Feeling detached from reality
• A spike in blood pressure
• Muscle tension or spasms
• Feel restless, often irritable, on edge and keyed up
• Have difficulty concentrating, falling asleep, or staying asleep
• Fearing that you will die

You may have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) if you frequently experience similar symptoms of anxiety attacks almost everyday for the last six months. You try to stop worrying but you just can't.

Generalized anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about everyday things that is disproportionate to the actual source of worry. (source: wikipedia)

The above list of symptoms may be incomplete, because different people react to anxiety in different ways and therefore the symptoms of anxiety attack are also different in them. However, the above are the most common symptoms observed among anxiety sufferers and one thing is common – all people who face an anxiety attack will exhibit a blend of symptoms, which will be physical as well as psychological.

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