Sunday, April 24, 2011

Understanding the Fear Process in a Panic Attack

When the fear goes beyond rational thought, our bodies become susceptible to panic attacks. Not so long ago, I had let my fears overcome rational thinking process. If you suffer from panic attacks, I know you're going through hell. Maybe you feel like no one around you understands. I'm here to tell you that I understand, because I felt fear, pain, loneliness and panic attacks bring. I know how it feels to feel like you're completely alone.

To understand how to overcome panic, you have to understand a little about the mechanisms of our inner fears. We are born with certain attributes to ensure our survival. ability to fear is really useful for us when used properly.

For example, several thousand years ago, when our ancestors came across a lion or tiger, they instinctively know to run or hide as quickly as possible to avoid eating alive! It is this kind of fear that insured that human beings are still around today. Without fear, we may have been extinct long ago.

I still do not, and always will be the ability to fear in the right situations to ensure our survival. However, today, in our culture, that instinct to run or hide commonly used in our subconscious mind is inappropriate in situations where it is not necessary.

To give you a brief example of how your brain controls your fear response, imagine for a minute you're walking alone in the wilderness, enjoying the beauties of our great country. Then suddenly, up ahead, you see the brush move pretty hard. You freeze. No matter what they thought two seconds prior to disposal. part of the fear response from your brain takes over as the possible threat up front.

Your heart is pounding so loud that you can feel it in the chest. These palms are perhaps beginning to sweat. Your brain only seconds to decide, to run from the fight or what is up ahead. Then suddenly you see a little bunny hop out of the brush and makes his way in the other direction. You heart immediately begins to return to normal as you breathe a sigh of relief.

But wait a minute. You never saw a real threat does not it? You saw the brush moving, but not a threat. Why not assume that he was a little rabbit and remain calm? Your instinct in action taken for their own good. Your fear response mechanism for taking care of you. There was never a real threat, but your body behaves as if the threat is about to develop, it will help you survive.

Let's get back to reality and place our self in the second example. You're in the supermarket standing in line. These are the people in front of you and the people behind you. You can not go anywhere. You feel trapped. You start to feel like you can not breath, you start getting worried that you may have about how to have a medical emergency, before all these strangers. What if I pass out? Now you may notice your heart beating hard in the chest. It begins to scare you even more. Your palms are sweating. You have a panic attack.

You might go to the ER doctor, or just to make sure you're okay. They tell you that they can find nothing wrong with you. They give you the recipe for a highly addictive drug and tell you to see your doctor. Or maybe you think you can live with the fear, if you can avoid this type of situation in future.

Anyway, you're still left wondering what happened. You did not ask for it right? It had just come from nowhere, right? Or did it? Remember that our fear mechanism initiated what our brain perceives to be dangerous. The key word here is "perceived. " As they stood there in line, your subconscious began the process that led to panic attacks. That's right. This is not something that you attacked. Due to the actions of your subconscious mind, your body is doing its inner instinctive reaction to fear. There was never any danger that wrong. But you conditioned your subconscious mind to think that there is a danger.

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Now, let's be it the next day. Everything you thought about how frightening your trip to the supermarket the previous day. At this stage, you're teaching your subconscious mind to keep a watch for this sort of thing in the future, so it does not hurt. Although you were not in danger, you somehow feel you do not want that to happen again at any cost. So, what do you do now? You can start by avoiding the supermarket, of course. Anyway, is it the place that caused the panic attack?

Ok. But almost everyone has to go to the supermarket at one point or another. Maybe you can go when nobody else is wrong, maybe late at night. See what's going on here? Fear begins to control you. Let's fast forward a few days. You're sitting in traffic. You still have that lump in the throat of the frightening experience of supermarkets. Then the thought crosses your mind, "What if it happened here in traffic ".

before you know it, your heart is racing, your palms are sweating and you're terrified once again that you may be able to die there in traffic, or you can go in your car. You might be thinking: "Who will save me?" or "Am I mad? What is happening to me?" Now you're in the middle of another full-blown panic attack. This way you are more devastated than before. You May feel like you lost control of himself.

You May feel that your family and friends will think you're crazy. You May feel lonely and depressed. You definitely feel the fear, because I do not know what the result will be. You do not want to become one of those people who are addicted to prescription drugs. But you also can not imagine living a normal life and experiencing this kind of fear at any time. You just want your life back, like it was a panic attack.

You May feel that there is a chance that can never be normal again. But you will. You can learn how to permanently eliminate the fear.

I've always wanted to know the most during my period of suffering, if I would ever feel normal, or my old self again. I can say without a doubt, the answer is YES.

I know that some days I can not bear to get out of bed because you're afraid of what fear is in store for you this day. You May feel like driving to the hospital ER and just waiting for the next to strike.

Your friends and family can provide little or no support. They May, in fact even make things worse that you're driving in a shell to hide his fear and pain, even embarrassment.

To understand what a man goes when experiencing panic attacks, one has to experience panic attacks. As you know, nobody else has a clue that you are living with fear when experiencing this kind of trouble, unless they've been there. It's your own personal journey through hell.

However, once you understand your fear of the process I described above and take the necessary steps to correct it, you will be well on your way to recovery.

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