We all worry from time to time, but your worrying becomes so intense it consumes you and you become anxious, interfering with your day to day life. You fear that you have an anxiety disorder. In understanding how our bodies function we can better understand the symptoms of panic anxiety disorder.
Here is a checklist of symptoms that you may have experienced from time to time. A combination of these, at varying intensities may signal that you have panic anxiety disorder.
1. Shortness of breath and suffocating sensations. This can be the most worrying of all the panic anxiety disorder symptoms. You sometimes feel like you chest is not expanding to allow you to intake the air your body needs, other times you feel like someone is smothering you and you cannot breathe. These symptoms are caused by exaggerated nerve impulses. When you are experiencing such an episode, in order to get through it, remind yourself you will not pass out, suffocate or stop breathing.
2. Heart palpitations, heart racing and heart slowing. When we are anxious, our body releases adrenaline into our blood stream. Higher than normal levels of adrenaline in our blood stream causes our heart to race and we feel lit it is missing beats. This is called heart palpitations. This reaction by our body is perfectly natural and is not harmful to us in any way. On the other hand we can also experience a slow heart beat. Even though these sensations may feel odd, again, try to remember they are not harmful to you in any way.
3. Sweating. This is a normal function of the body. When we become anxious our adrenaline increases and our body temperature rises. When our body temperature rises our body naturally produces sweat to cool it down. Because panic anxiety disorder amps us up, the body releases sweat to cool us down.
4. Tingling in the arms, legs or feet. During an episode of panic anxiety disorder, several systems in the body tend to react. The change of the circulation of blood oxygen and blood carbon dioxide increases our muscle tension and prepares the body for action. All these adjustments have an intense control over our bodily sensations. When we begin to feel weak or tingling in our arms, hands, legs or feet, it is all caused by a pooling of blood carbon dioxide causes increased circulation. This sensation is not harmful.
5. Sleeplessness. This can be the most agonizing part of anxiety disorder, the inability to fall asleep and stay asleep. Sleep is extremely important to your body. You must consult a physician if insomnia persists.
6. Tension aches in head, back and neck. The neck and shoulder is where the blood vessels and nerves that supply our face and head originate. When we experience a great deal of stress, these are the first areas to become tense. This tension can also cause intense discomfort, migraine and numbness.
7. Derealisation and Depersonalisation. These anxiety disorder symptoms affect the way you experience yourself. Derealisation is the feeling that your world is not real, that you are constantly in a dream. Life simple does not feel real to you.
8. Difficulty swallowing. This condition is called Globus Hystericus. It is a symptom caused by the muscle in the throat contracting due to anxiety or stress. This swelling gives you the feeling like you cannot swallow or trying to swallow makes it more difficult. This is not dangerous, as the swelling will go down once the body returns to a normalized state after an attack.
9. Shaking or shivering. We have all experienced shaking or shivering when we are cold or afraid. This is the normal body reaction to these two experiences. Shaking occurs when our muscles spasmodically contract creating friction between the muscle and other body tissues. The body creates this friction to raise our body’s temperature.
10. Ingestion, heartburn, constipation and diarrhea. These are other unfortunate symptoms of anxiety disorder. When we experience an episode of anxiety our body diverts blood from other parts of the body to our muscles to provide them with the increase in oxygen needed. One of the main areas affected by the diversion is our digestive track. The lack of oxygen to the digestive tract causes the muscles around the stomach to become knotted. This can cause the ingestion, heartburn, constipation and diarrhea we experience.
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