Anxiety Attacks: You Could Be a Victim

By: Patricia Carlisle

Narrated by: Sonny Dufault

Length: 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Anxiety attacks, also known as panic attacks in emotional or mental wellness circles, are episodes of extreme panic or apprehension. They are sudden and can happen at any time and place. They can last 10 minutes, and they gradually fade over the span of a couple of hours.

Anxiety is the body's common reaction to danger, a programmed alarm that goes off when you feel under pressure or are confronting a distressing circumstance. With some restraint, anxiety isn't generally a terrible thing. Anxiety can assist you with staying alert and focused, drive you to action, and rouse you to take care of problems.

Yet when anxiety is steady or overpowering, when it disturbs your activities and relationships,and you stop being functional, that is the point at which you've gone too far from ordinary, beneficial, or productive anxiety into the area of anxiety disorder or attack.

It's normal to feel restless when confronting a challenging circumstance - for example, an exam, a job interview, or a blind date. But if your fears and worries appear to be overpowering and interfere with your day-to-day life, you may be experiencing an anxiety attack.

There are various types of anxiety disorders as well as numerous medications and self-help techniques. Once you understand you have anxiety disorder, there are steps you can take to decrease your symptoms and recapture control of your life.

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