Treating Anxiety Attacks – 5 Steps to Deal With Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Often associated with nervousness and fear, anxiety can become an illness where you can experience irrational feelings. Some of the symptoms of anxiety disorders include sweating, nausea, hot flushes and chest pains. But, these are quite common symptoms and are sometimes diagnosed wrongly or they are just overlooked.
There are a lot of types of anxiety, including post trauma anxiety, social anxiety disorder, panic anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety. If you think that you have anxiety disorder, you should look for the advice of a doctor.
Here are a few guidelines on how you can deal with anxiety in 5 steps. You should talk with a doctor and only use these tips as an add on.
Step 1: Relaxation Techniques
If you can learn how to relax you can fight the anxiety attack symptoms, like sweating, racing heartbeat, muscle tension and tremors. Learn techniques like muscle relaxation and meditation and use them to relax when an anxiety attack is coming.
Step 2: Exercise
You should always exercise if you want to remain healthy. If you’re healthy you can keep yourself at a good psychological level. Also, make sure you rest well and you keep the environment relaxed around you.
Step 3: Balanced Diet
A diet that is balanced can provide you with the nutrients that you need to be at your best. Don’t drink coffee and don’t use anything from the alcohol, cigarettes or drugs categories. That’s because they speed up your heartbeat and can provoke the anxiety disorder symptoms.
Step 4: Seek Emotional Support
You should learn to spot when you have problems and ask for the help from your friends and family when you need it. Tell them what happened and let them help you to recover from anxiety disorder. If you can, look for advice on how you can eliminate anxiety. Support groups can also be a good idea and can help you.
Step 5: Self Monitoring
After you find out what the causes are for your attacks, you should look for the triggers. Once you know this you can look for ways on how you can avoid them.
Ricky Lim
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April 9th, 2010 2:14 am
They are going to be alright if you leave your classes. They’ve seen many a student drop the class, and will see many more in the future. You are taking things far too personally, which is probably why you are so anxious, thinking that so much rides on your every action. It doesn’t. People won’t remember or care about all the various things you do or don’t do. What makes people get incredibly upset about something you have caused is usually due to issues within their own life, and you can’t possibly do anything about that.
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April 9th, 2010 12:12 pm
How can I make it up to them (do you think I offended them)?
My entire life has been about school. While I’d had panic attacks since the beginning, everything got progressively worse each year. I developed an eating disorder to deal with my stress, then due to something else I self-injured and that became useful for anxiety as well. Eventually I had a breakdown and had to learn from home. I kept on earning my straight A+s and working on my resume for college. Despite always working really hard, I’m now at college, I’m too stressed out to do anything here. I hate the thought of taking a semester off but I know I’m going to have to. The problem is though that my professors have been really nice, but one day they asked me to come to class and I couldn’t. Now I know they’re upset with me. I would have left awhile ago, but my parents always think they know best- they don’t, I’m a parent to them and I’m still the one they yell at (I respect my parents, everyone says how nice I am to them, they just don’t know how my parents actually treat me).
I’m going to write thank-you notes to my professors, but what can I do to make it up to them? I never tell people I’m depressed and anxious, instead I simply smile and laugh a lot, however, I told my professors I was stressed (no way will anyone ever know I’m depressed or the extent of my anxiety). It was a huge step for me to say anything, and I feel terrible that now I still must have offended them (I told the truth so as to not upset them).
Thank you so much! I’m very sorry that this entire post is selfishly about me.