Panic Attack Symptoms — Explained Thoroughly
August 29, 2010 by AMA
Filed under Mental Health
If you have been hurting from panic attacks for a very long time now, you pretty much recognize what the panic attack symptoms are. From hyperventilating to fainting, and everything else in between; the whole enchilada if you want to put it that way. However, have you ever come to consider what your body feels while having all the signs? If you ever did, then let me go ahead and explain symptoms of panic attack and try to be a little extensive in discussing each.
The first sign thaat we are going to talk about is hyperventilation or the feeling of drowning. I have already experienced hyperventilating but I do not recognize the feeling of being drowned. The feeling is similar to running for an hour in a really fast pace and then you stop to find your breath. Your breathing is really fast and sometimes, your chest will hurt.
Because of the constricting of the muscles of your chest and the deficiency of oxygen in your body, the result is hyperventilation. But the quicker you breathe, the shallower your breathing becomes and so, you still get less oxygen.
So, because of the irregular breathing, it results to another symptom which I will discuss – fainting. You have to recognize that not everybody who gets an attack faint, but most of them do. This event is commonly associated with low oxygen levels in the brain and excessive lost of carbon dioxide. Fainting is actually not harmful, what is dangerous is when you bang your head into something hard when you faint.
Another very usual symptom is tachycardia or what we would commonly refer to as palpitations. The immediate rise in your heart rate is an effect of what we know as the body’s sympathetic nervous response. When you are very stressed, your body feels that it is under attack from the inside or outside that it initiates the sympathetic nervous response. This will prepare you to run from the cause or battle it.
How will your body be equipped by it? It is fairly simple, it gives concentration on organs that you will require for a “battle” such as your heart, lungs and brain. The organs can be set by having a large amount of oxygen from the blood. And the better means to make this happen is to make your heart work, right?
The next symptom I will discuss is also due to the sympathetic nervous response; it is called diaphoresis or excessive sweating. The excessive sweating is in fact due to the increased metabolism when you are having attacks.
Panic attack symptoms like upset stomach, changes in the bowel movement and trembling have not been explained here yet. In general, all of them is because of the sympathetic nervous response. What is significant is that you know that none of these symptoms can in fact directly kill you so take a load off and breathe.
Sometimes I know it is a bit frustrating when you are trying to look for something online such as the best treatment for panic attacks and then once you click the “search” button, millions and millions of results, each promising to be good and each claiming to be the best. Here is one product that I suggest. There’s the Easy Calm Method wherein the technique would be to get rid of the negative thoughts to successfully get rid of the attacks.
