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Posted on September 12, 2009 by Ryan Rivera | Posted under Depression
How Anxiety Feels Like
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Others may only feel just a fluttering sensation. They may have to concentrate to breathe. They look around the room for the source of anxiety but finds nothing. The familiar sense of foreboding grows. They get out of bed and the anxiety gets out with them. Perhaps it takes the form of a churning in their stomach; or a tingling in every limb; or a suffocating fear wrapped around their throat. They somehow keep the feeling at bay, and they go on with their daily lives. But inside patients of anxiety still lurks the dreadful feeling that the fear will come back again, suddenly, out of the blue, catching them unawares. A dark feeling looms over them. They feel hands shaking, with dark thoughts coming in and out of their minds. It becomes very difficult to do daily tasks. Most patients don't even know what is happening to them. For some, the experience is different. They look perfectly normal, behave perfectly normally, get on with their life apparently normally. And yet they don't feel fulfilled or truly happy or fully in the heart of things. A lot of the time they feel panicky or nervous. They cannot relax most of the time. {"What if?" and "shouldn't I?" questions run through their mind most of the time (although they might not be aware of this yet), along with concerns about what others think of them, whether what they do is good enough, and is it worth bothering anyway, considering the state of the world?|There are often bothered by "what if?" or "shouldn't I?" thoughts. In some patients, their mind just goes a complete blank. It might be that they are so convinced that they must do things perfectly that they often fail to complete them, or even start them, at all. The disabling anxiety is almost always there, on their shoulder, weighing them down. At night, it stops them getting off to sleep and, if they wake in the early hours, it kicks in at once, preventing them from dropping back to sleep again quickly. Sometimes, it becomes too much to handle at once and they start to panic. How do I know all this? I also experienced those things.. but I was able to recover and I help you do the same too. I will help you take charge of your life once again. I will help you take control. Instead of anxiety working against you, crippling and choking you, it can be tamed to work for you, just as it was always meant to. The first important thing to remember is this. The internal mechanism that drives your anxiety was serving you well when it first went on full alert, whatever the original cause (and it really doesn't matter if you have forgotten what that was). This mechanism is trying to keep you safe. This mechanism is on overdrive, and like all things, anything that is over the normal is bad for you. You will learn why this is happening to you and learn how to take it under control. It is extremely difficult to get rid of fluctuating anxiety levels and wouldn't want to, as they have a job to do. What we need to do is to learn how to manage them so we can use it to our benefit. And that's what you're about to learn. About The Author: You can read more about medicine for panic attacks here. Not sure what's going on? Take this Anxiety Quiz now and get a free informational report with easy to understand graphics and a breakdown of your situation. |
Tags: HEALTH, ANXIETY, PANIC, ANXIETY DISORDER
