Panic attacks and anxiety attacks are basically the same thing, and they are on the rise. The cause of the increase isn't fully understood, but modern life with all its pressure and stress could be a factor. No matter the cause, they are increasing and causing more people more problems than ever.
How can you know you are suffering an anxiety attack? Not a simple question to answer because symptoms can vary from the downright petrifying to almost unnoticeable. Symptoms could be a simple hot flush to a more terrifying racing heart and shallowness of breath.
I think if you were having the more serious symptoms you would know you needed some type of help. But you could also be having mild symptoms and not even know it's an anxiety related attack. This could be a warning sign that things are about to get worse, much worse.
My wife suffered a bad panic attack while she was out driving our car. It wasn't the fact she had suffered an attack that hit her worst, but the fact she could easily have hit and killed someone or maybe even herself. This type of situation just doesn't warrant thinking about.
If you've been having a few strange moments lately, maybe even experiencing one or more of the following... Fidgeting, feeling irritated, hard to sleep, on edge or anxious or lack of concentration. Having any of these mild symptoms could be a warning sign.
Before you actually get into a panic about these symptoms let me assure you there are many things that can cause these symptoms. And none of them are anything to worry about. Lack of sleep may just be too much caffeine. Fidgeting may be uncomfortable clothing.
However if you think you may want to delve further and check out if you are a potential anxiety attack victim. You can take an anxiety symptoms test which may give you a better idea. All you do is tick a few boxes with either yes or no and total your score at the end.
Then you can decide if you need to take further action. Take the anxiety symptoms test here.
May 8th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
(anxiety, ptsd) OVERCOMING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (2 Books + 12 CE Credits or 12 CME Credits) by Larry
July 21st, 2011 at 4:12 am
Put it into its proper context. This line occurs at the end of the banquet scene, in which Macbeth encounters the ghost of the slain Banquo…whose muder he ordered.
Macbeth has just freaked out in front of the banquet audience, and, because of what he says to the ghost, it's pretty clear that some of the guests are starting to suspect him of some pretty foul deeds. FINALLY, Lady Macbeth gets them to leave, and, once alone with her husband, she suggests to him that there's nothing wrong with him that a little SLEEP wouldn't cure.
It's an ironic suggestion, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, the guy just LOST IT entirely…a quick nap isn't going to help. For another thing, Macbeth already revealed (in his ramblings immediately after killing Duncan) that he had a premonition that he would "sleep no more."
I think the key to the exchange is Lady Macbeth's AVOIDANCE of the real issue here. She and Macbeth are up to their eyeballs in guilt. She can see him starting to unravel, and he's already starting to freeze her out of his ongoing decision-making process. Her suggestion that SLEEP is all he needs is wishful thinking at best.
August 8th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Overcoming Panic Attacks –
September 1st, 2011 at 5:57 am
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February 1st, 2012 at 2:49 am
End Procrastination For Good? While it is not a overly-annoying syndrome; that is, a diagnosis found in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, procrastination is still deleterious, psychologically. It can create mild symptoms or some that are chronic, even paralyzing. Regardless, procrastination is something that can be looked at. Procrastination is really a [...]