Monday, September 21, 2009

Helpful Tips To Stop Anxiety Attacks

By Bertram Martin Adams

As most consultants will tell you, one of the keys to making a panic episode manageable is to be taught how to work your way through the attack itself. The paralyzing fear that accompanies an acute anxiety or panic fit can be so strong and intense, trying to describe these sensations to someone who has never experienced them is nearly impossible. Here are some helpful tips to stop panic attacks.

The very first thing you have to do is realize you are having an anxiety attack. Although this sounds elemental and virtually pointless, the amount of sufferers who think what they are experiencing is something aside from nervousness is quite large. They may show up at the doctor's office or the ER claiming to be having a cardiac arrest, stroke, overdose on some stimulant or anaphylactic shock. Once a victim realizes they're indeed having an anxiety episode, they can accept it and start to work through it and realize that it will pass.

You should do something physical to take your mind off the attack, at least for the present. Anything that requires exertion such as cleaning, exercise, walking or even cooking is intensely beneficial and offers a point of concentration aside from the assault itself. Exercise, particularly activity that needs effort, releases endorphins. These are mood altering hormones that may calm and relax a sufferer with a sense of euphoria. Activity will also annul any feelings of helplessness which will go with the attack and enfranchise the person by doing something that's productive.

If you've been going through stress attacks for any time period, you have potentially developed a support group. It could be an informal group like parents, siblings, friends or fellow sufferers ; anyone who understands what you are going thru. Reach out to these folks for the help and understanding you want at the time. You aren't trying to find pity or even sympathy, just somebody you can talk to about and during the attack. If you are someone who is abashed of their anxiety and has hidden the truth about your suffering from buddies and family, it's time to chat to them about the whole experience. Keeping this a secret only makes things worse so seek out someone to confide in, even if it is through the web, in a chatroom or forum in particular about nervousness and panic.

Taking medicine should be a final resort measure. Since drugs just mask symptoms they regularly return when the medication wears off and can also be more intense. Almost all of the anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax and Klonopin have some pretty heavy side effects that you most likely need to avoid by not taking the medication.

By realizing when you're having an anxiety attack and accepting it for what it is you can then start to calm yourself with physical activity. As you begin to calm down then is the time to contact a support person to speak about what you are feeling and what is going thru your consciousness. These steps can then become beneficial tips to stop anxiety attacks.

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