Panic Attack Symptoms: “No You Are Not Going Mad!”
The following will be covered in this page in regards to panic attack symptoms:
First things first and I can't stress this enough to you!
So, there has been much written about panic attacks and it is my intention to bring some sense into it for you.
Next, I really want this page to make sense in a basic and practical way that is useful.
Lastly, please use the self help notes to learn what to do for yourself because you can take control for free.
What is covered in the blog page:
- Thinking on symptoms.
- Panic attack symptoms.
- Why the brain generates a panic attack and the logic of the fight or flight programme.
- Self help.
- Additionally, professional help to tidy things up.
Thinking about panic attacks and symptoms!
- You are not having a heart attack when a panic attack occurs. It feels like it but it won't become a heart attack.
- You can take control yourself quickly and effectively. Honestly you can do this.
- People often think they are going mad because no thought preceeds a panic attack. You are certainly not going mad as there is a scientific reason for this.
- The symptoms are a normal function of the brain because of it's survival programming. Yes this is a normal function of your brain to protect you.
Panic attack symptoms you may experience.
- Rapid acceleration of heartbeat and breathing.
- Panic and confusion.
- Chest pain.
- Feeling out of control.
- Additionally a sense of doom.
- Sweating, tingling in hands and fingers and breathing difficulties too.
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Why does the brain create panic anyway?
It is a commonly held view that panic is created by a part of the brain known as the Limbic system.
Also, the Limbic system is refered to as a reptilian throwback of how our brains were when we were reptiles.
That said and at that time we never spoke or had cognitive language.
So, knowing that makes sense that this part of the brain processes using filters like sight, hearing, smell, taste and physical touch.
This is how the brain recieves information from our filtering senses.
So, this list of things may help you to put logic into your thinking about why and how things happen.
- The Limbic system does not use cognitive language. So no words are used within it.
- So, when it senses danger it creates the physical fight or flight people experience.
- Ultimately, your body gets flooded with Adrenalin and you become hypervigilant and ready to have a fight or run away.
- So, this is a natural bodily reaction but people can't connect their experience because it starts automatically without words.
- And because of confusion and this heightened state people fuel the experience into panic and intensify the attack even worse.
What's the good news, regarding self help?
Initially realise that your brain has been spooked by something around it and this is about basic survival.
This is vitally important: Your brain may have picked up something visually, by smell, by taste or by using hearing or by touch only.
This may have been a trigger from a past experience or memory connected to what your brain noticed using one of these filters.
It is important to begin to do 7/11 diaphragmatic breathing straight away.
Also, you can do bilateral stimulation to reduce anxiety and stress.
Another alternative is to use meridian 6 point tapping to calm things down.
Additionally this can return the body into homeostasis. Please click the word for an explanation.
But really its the balanced relaxing state of your body where it stops adrenalin being produced.
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In conclusion: Working together to tidy up negative past experiences.
- In some cases people use Hypnosis and other techniques to tidy up panic attack memories. This is usually because the memory of the trauma troubles them.
- Also, non hypnosis approaches can also be used if hypnosis is not your preferred approach.
- Alternatively, mindfulness is a great approach to relaxation and greater brain functioning.
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Mark Pettigrew
