Stop the Fear: Learn to Stop Anxiety Panic Attacks and Take Control of Your Life. Jamie JD Richard

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      Panic Disorder

      Panic disorder is characterized by having continued panic and anxiety attacks.

      A panic attack is when you get a sudden, intense, and often overpowering feeling of fear and doom. They come on with very little warning and last for anywhere between five to ten minutes although if you are in the middle of a panic attack it feels like it is lasting forever.

      Our normal fear response is triggered, which causes the panic attack; sometimes there is a visible reason for some anxiety but the panic attack is well beyond what the normal bodily response should be and sometimes they occur without any noticeable reason.

      People with panic disorder often become fearful of having a panic attack and worry about when the next one will happen.

      Symptoms displayed during a panic attack can include:

      hot flashes or chills

      heart palpitations

      sweating

      shaking

      hard to breathe

      dizziness

      tingling in the limbs

      chest pain

      nausea

      hard to think

      intense feeling of dread

      feeling that you are about to die or in danger

      choking feeling

      Phobias

      You will be hard-pressed to find somebody who does not have a phobia of some sort or another. From common(fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of spiders) to uncommon (fear of a certain number or color, fear of everyday objects), phobias have one thing in common, when somebody with a phobia comes face to face with the subject of their phobia the fear is nearly paralyzing. The most common symptom is a panic attack.

      Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

      This disorder is most often associated with soldiers returning from war or soldiers while at war can actually happen to anybody who has gone through a traumatic event.

      PTSD is the result of any occurrence that has traumatized somebody by involving something so horrific that it has filled him or her with an intense fear.

      Events such as being attacked, watching a loved get attacked, witness an attack on others, an accident, war, a catastrophic natural disaster, or any other situation that caused a total shock to the person involved.

      Symptoms of PTSD can include:

      Re-living the trauma through flashbacks or nightmares

      Paranoia

      Tendency to withdraw from the world in an attempt to avoid triggering a flashback

      Inability to concentrate

      Moodiness, irritability, inability to connect to others

      Inability to sleep

      Chapter 2: Anxiety Disorders – Part II

      Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

      People with obsessive-compulsive disorder become victims of their own thought patterns and behaviors that they are compelled to perform, usually extremely repetitive.

      People suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorders have cycles of distressing thoughts and of fears, whether real or imaginary that they just cannot get out of their head.

      Those recurring thoughts and fears are called obsessions and these obsessions are what cause the anxiety to manifest.

      These obsessions are so bad and intense that they overtake the person’s thinking, until that is all they are thinking about; the person suffering from this knows that this is not normal, hence the extreme anxiety that is caused by this.

      Sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder have certain routines or rituals that they feel compelled to perform repeatedly in an effort to make the obsessions go away.

      The rituals might work on a temporary basis but the thoughts that are obsessive will nearly always come back, triggering another round of compulsive rituals and routines.

      People with this disorder feel very much trapped by their obsessions and compulsions but are unable to stop the cycle.

      Some sufferers will only develop obsessions but no compulsions and some will have compulsions but no obsessions.

      They may be hyper-focused on certain ideas, things, or objects but are unable to control that focus.

      Some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are:

      Extreme doubt and insecurity and seeking constant reassurances from others

      Fear of germs, dirt or contamination – excessive washing/cleaning, fear of touching other people, surfaces such as doorknobs and counters

      Fear of misbehaving – fear of acting unacceptable or acting foolish

      Fear of hurting others – obsessive thoughts of doing harm to other people

      A pressing need for order, for things to be in their place, symmetry and constant re-arranging or putting things in order – everything has to line up, nothing moved out of place, things must be arranged how they like them and no exceptions

      Hoarding – fear of not having something if they need it, collecting things that have no value

      Extreme thoughts dealing with religion, sin and sexual acts

      Fear of being harmed – constant checking of alarm systems, to make sure doors are locked, windows shut and locked.

      Repeating words, phrases or counting either out loud or in their head, such as counting steps, bricks, books on a shelf, etc.

      Compulsions must be performed a certain number of times

      Social Anxiety

      People with social anxiety are constantly afraid that they will make a faux pass in public, that they will embarrass themselves or the people that they are with when in a social situation.

      For people suffering from this, any social occasion can be a nightmare, causing panic attacks and anxiety.

      Social anxiety sufferers are often insecure and extremely self-conscious and have the constant feeling that whenever they are in public that they are being made-fun of, judged, laughed at, criticized by others, which will end in their being humiliated and shamed.

      Social anxiety can begin to take a hold before the person even enters a social situation, just the thought of having to be in a social situation can induce panic in a sufferer.

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