Anxiety symtoms? i need help?
March 19th, 2010 by admin | Filed in Anxiety Attacks
What are the symptoms of anxiety? like what happens when you have it? I believe that i might have it.
and what happens when you have an anxiety attack?
and what kinds of things would cause you to have an anxiety attack?
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Hi Juno.
I am a 38 year old male who has suffered my entire life with extreme OCD. I am basically forced to live my life behind the internet and amongst family and friends only and can go very limited places due to extreme fears and associtaed agonizing and time-consuming rituals. OCD is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It is one of many Anxiety Disorders, and boy is the anxiety intense!
Having suffered my whole life with OCD, I have read cosiderably on anxiety and have been to a few anxiety clinics across the nation. Since I am apparently refractory to these treaments, it has been a while since I have tried them in a structured setting, and it has been a while since I have read much on it since in my life time I have read so much that anything I read now sounds like a broken record. So… I am going to give my take on anxiety.
Commonly people describe symptoms of anxiety as:
rapid pulse
chest pain, even
rapid breathing
sweating, typically palms mostly
shaking
feeling hot
clutsy
hyperventilation (perhaps my least favorite of all)
twitching
nervousness
light-headedness
dizziness
and more…
The symptoms vary person-to-person and even vary experience-to-experience.
I think most people who experience anxiety attacks or panic attacks express hyperventilation as the most terrofying experience. A person breathes and yet feels as though teh air they are breathing is "no good." I think the gist of hyperventilation is that the body is that CO2 levels in the blood get screwed up. I forget the whole process, but I know the recommendations for when one experiences this are to
1) breathe into a paper bag,
2) concentrate on breathing, particularly, placing one’s hand on their tummy as they breathe in slowly and deeply through the noise allowing their lungs to fill completely and then exhaling slowly and completely through the mouth
The idea with (1) is to reclaim some of the exhaled CO2.
The idea of 2 is to resync aspiration.
Personally, I have found neither of these to work when I suffer an anxiety attack with hyperventilation. In fact, I find what works for me is to hold my breathe for as long as I can a few times in a row. Which would seem to suggest the scientist have it all wrong since, how am I increasing my blood CO2 in doing this??? There may be some explanation for why the standard methods do not work for me and why my method does, but the thing I wish to stress is that often times treatment is personal. What seems to be "universal" treatment may not work for everyone.
Some anxiety attacks are so severe that people swear they are having a heart attack. They have chest pain. It feels their heart is working extremely hard, and they even experience numbness and tingling in their extremities. Many people have mistaken anxiety attacks for heart attacks or other physical problems.
Apart from the physical anxiety has many difficult to describe emotional manifestations. In fact, many times, perhaps a vast majority of the time, that I experience anxiety, I have NO physical symptoms. Anxiety often times is mental anguish. Sometimes feeling as if you are "out of control" or that your burden is too much. Sometimes it is fear. Sometimes unreasonable fear. Sometimes it is disgust.
Most people experience anxiety, if not anyone. Everyone to vary degrees, varying frequencies and varying intensity. Often times from stresses of life. When you feel anxious, try your best to remain calm. Many people have published many techniques for dealing with anxiety, and yoga is a very common practice for minizing anxiety and its effects, though it is not for everyone. I tried it. I didn’t like it. It helps many people though.
Also, practicing relaxation techniques in nonanxious quiet moments is commonly recommended as a means of training the body to become proficient at producing a relaxed state when anxiety does hit.
Some techniquescommonly used to minimize the impact of anxiety and to escape or prevent panic attacks are DEEP BREATHING EXERCISES (essentially, the same as (2) above except at a moment when not hyperventilating) and PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION. There are tapes, CDs and MP3s that can guide an individual through PMR, or one can create their own version. It essential involves tensings particular muscles, holding and then slowing relaxing, and often times extending extremities, holding and slowly releasing. Many people do this with certain muscle groups first and others last. I do not know that order matters too much. The key is to try to do several muscles within the body. I think of this as bring "full body awareness." (I think I may have accidentally stolen that from someone.) And when in a panic/anxious state, one needs to try to become aware of what is going on in their entire body, and try to relax tense muscles, relax the mind, perhaps by closing one’s eyes and focusing the mind on a "happy place" (or "mundane" or simple things, peo