Causes of Anxiety Attacks
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nxiety attacks are similar to panic attacks, but are of lesser intensity but greater duration, and caused mainly by worry and extended periods of thinking anxious thoughts. Some psychiatrists will not differentiate anxiety attacks and panic attacks, because they treat them the same; with medication. To them there is no distinction. However, a panic attack is more extreme than an anxiety attack and has more acute symptoms.
The main causes of anxiety attacks are excess amounts of worry and fear. In most cases, your anxiety and anxious state are ultimately unnecessary. If you were able to stop almost all your worrying and fearful thinking tonight, there would be only positive results. Some measure of anxiety and fear is normal, natural, and healthy to your life. Fear and worry helps us plan ahead and make smart decisions.
Experiencing anxiety attacks is a clear indicator that you have far too much worry and anxiety. Eliminating the causes of anxiety attacks from your life will of course eliminate the anxiety attacks. Focusing on eliminating the underlying causes of anxiety attacks, rather than on the anxiety attacks themselves, is the most effective way to deal with the attacks.
By identifying the common thought patterns, ‘trigger words’ and ‘trigger thoughts’ for your attacks will allow you to nip it in the bud and disrupt the anxiety cycle. By changing your thinking you will avoid the emotional anxiety and worry that go along with that, and naturally eliminate your attacks.
Some people in the medical profession think that the causes of anxiety attacks come from an imbalance in the brain. However, the most effective treatments of anxiety attacks are based on changing the emotions and thoughts of the individual. Still other theorists believe that anxiety attacks are related to family history and how parents have raised their children.
Ultimately, the ‘true’ cause of anxiety attacks is unimportant. The conditions that lead to an anxiety attack are well understood, as are the techniques to handle the anxiety attacks. The rest is just academic.
If you had a lot of worry and anxiety in the family environment while you were growing up, you can easily have picked up the worry ‘habit’ from your parents and siblings. People who habitually think about how things could have been in the past, or what negative consequences may occur in the future subconsciously teach these same patterns of behavior to their children.
One of the most common causes of anxiety attacks is if you are concerned something and do not feel like you have a solution. Reviewing the scenario over and over in your mind slowly builds up anxiety.
The buildup can also be subconscious. You can be reviewing a scenario over and over in your head without realizing it. Absentmindedly obsessing over a past or future event will slowly begin building a powerful wave of anxiety. As the wave begins to build your muscles will begin to tighten on their own. Eventually a critical point is reached and the ‘wave’ is released across your body and mind, and experienced as a full on ?attack.
Individuals who are experiencing drug withdrawal may have anxiety attacks because of the serious nature of their situation and the inability to handle it. This is why professional help is always recommended in that circumstance.
You don’t to have to have traumatic issues in your life to acquire the causes of anxiety attacks. The issue is not so much the external events in your world and what stresses exist in your life, but rather HOW YOU THINK about those stresses, and what actions you take to direct how you think about them.
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