You have to deliver a presentation in front of your whole
class, you walk to the front of the room, the room is silent and all eyes are
on you. Your heart starts pounding, your hands become sweaty and you’re having trouble
breathing. What you’re experiencing at this moment is a panic attack, something
that quite a bit of people go through as they go about their life. It’s not
something uncommon, but people who experience these frequently might have
something called panic disorder, which is mainly characterized by panic attacks
and anxiety. So we know what panic attacks are, but what does anxiety mean. We know
how it feels to be anxious, but how do we put these feelings into words? Anxiety
is an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior,
such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints and rumination. It is the subjectively
unpleasant feelings of dread over something unlikely to happen. Now experiencing
anxiety once in a while isn’t a bad thing, like over that test you aren’t too
sure you’re ready for, or that job interview for your dream job, so don’t go running
to a medical doctor just yet.. We’ve all experience anxiety at least once in
our life, and it’s ok that we do, but if we’re experiencing this over every
little thing, and you get a panic attack because of those anxious feelings
inside of you, and you get these so often that it disrupts the way you live
your life, that’s when you know you have a problem that you need to consult a
doctor for. Don’t worry there is help that you can receive from many people for
this disorder, and maybe you can go back to living your life the way you used
to.
If you feel that you have this disorder seek help immediately.
