By Ed Lathrop
Anxiety is a very popular word today. Many people suffer from anxiety in varying degrees. There are large numbers of people who feel normal a fair percentage of the time, but on occasion, they experience attacks of anxiety or panic. During these attacks, their lives change in many ways. They cannot function as they normally do and they experience physical sensations that range from uncomfortable to extremely frightening.
There probably isn't a person alive who has not been nervous, at least on occasion. Most people experience a certain amount of nervousness everyday. This, of course, is normal. When we are nervous, we know why we are nervous. Anxiety sufferer's, on the other hand, often experience extreme nervousness and have no idea why don't know why they feel this way.
Nervousness Personified
So, the difference between normal nervousness and a true anxiety disorder is largely the degree of the nervousness. When any person is in a state of nervousness, adrenaline will flow through the bloodstream and this will cause nervous symptoms.
We all know how regular nervousness makes us feel. However, while these feelings may not be comfortable, they are usually tolerable. Unlike ordinary nervousness, the large amounts of adrenaline secreted into the bloodstream during a panic attack, causes feelings the anxiety sufferer often describes as terrifying!
It's All-Chemical
Often an anxiety sufferer will believe he or she is having a complete mental breakdown. Adrenaline can actually cause vision changes. These may make objects seem to change size or shape and many times anxiety sufferers cannot help but think there is something wrong with their mental abilities. This is not true because this problem has to do with a nervous system out of control.
If misery loves company, anxiety sufferers will rejoice knowing there are millions of other people who have experienced panic attacks on many occasions. For some reason however, most people who experience panic seem to think it is a very rare condition. It is not.
Don't Worry About The Cause, It is Useless Information
There are a number of ways you can wind up being a victim of anxiety. Finding out what brought on this terrible condition is of no importance. Anxiety happens to many people. That is a fact. Don't look for a reason for anxiety and don't blame yourself.
At this point, I have to reinforce the fact anxiety is a nervous condition, not a mental one. An anxiety sufferer's problem is he or she is having too many severe adrenaline secretions. This is what needs to be overcome. There is nothing Freudian about this fact.
Anxiety disorder is overcome all the time. In some cases, there are several steps to recovery. However, the first step is always the same. That step is to accept whatever horrific and uncomfortable feelings anxiety and panic can send your way. Just make up your mind you will actually give in to anxiety's feelings. By doing this you will not be strengthening your anxiety. It is normal to try to fight or run away from anxiety and this actually strengthens it. So, though giving into anxiety may not be all there is to a complete recovery, many have used this technique with great success.
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