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		<title>Understand Why You Panic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people are unaware of what triggers panic attacks. Being overly anxious about things causes this situation. Being able to understand how anxiety affects one will help you deal with this condition. Anxiety is defined as being in a state of constant worry or irrational fear resulting from an anticipation of a real or perceived [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Most people are unaware of what triggers panic attacks. Being overly anxious about things causes this situation. Being able to understand how anxiety affects one will help you deal with this condition.</em></strong> Anxiety is defined as being in a state of constant worry or irrational fear resulting from an anticipation of a real or perceived threat, situation or activity. Anxiety is a common human reaction felt by people at some point in their lives. However, most people who have never experienced extreme anxiety, cannot understand the frightening nature it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One may be subject to extreme dizziness; blurred vision; numbness or tingling sensations; hot flushes and erratic breathing; trembling or shaking; sweating; fear of dying; chest pain or discomfort; accelerated heart rate; nausea and choking. These symptoms are clear indicators of anxiety. <strong>When feelings of this nature happen, people are overwhelmed to the extent of thinking that they are going insane.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This threat of not being in absolute control of one&#8217;s mind appears very real and naturally frightening. Anxiety is our body&#8217;s natural response to any danger or threat, because all of its effects are directed towards rebelling or running from the danger. The sole function of anxiety is actually to protect the person from danger.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>This may appear doubtful to sufferers who feel that anxiety is actually causing more harm and is the main culprit of an impending attack.</strong> Possibly one of the most terrifying effects is the fear of being smothered or suffocated. It is a common experience during a panic attack to feel tightness in the chest and throat areas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some people might have personally experienced breathlessness which leads to a cycle of anxiety, as they feared their breathing may stop and that they may never recover. Contrary to popular belief, an attack does not stop your breathing. It actually increases the speed and depth of your breathing. This is an auto response of the survival mechanism in your body to increase more oxygen into your body tissues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Some bodily sensations you may experience by this increased breathing, include breathlessness, hyperventilation, choked or smothered feelings, and possibly pain or tightness in the chest region.</em> A side effect of increased breathing is that the blood supply to the head actually decreases. While such decrease is insignificant and not life threatening, it does however result in some unpleasant but harmless symptoms like confusion, blurred vision, dizziness, hot flushes and a sense of unreality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People are puzzled over the nature of a fight/flight response activated during a panic attack and are unable to dispel their fears despite being told there is apparently nothing to be frightened of. It&#8217;s only natural for people to be afraid of the sensations as it appears as if your body is losing control. The unnatural physical symptoms aroused panic or fear that something is not right with your body.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>It certainly does not make any sense to the people as to why these terrifying physical symptoms manifest in a fight/flight response, if you are not frightened initially. Studies show that symptoms can appear in many ways, not just through one&#8217;s fear.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you have ever been stressed for some reason in your lifetime, this stress may result in an increase in the production of adrenaline and other chemicals over a period of time, which may ultimately produce symptoms, thought to be responsible for panic reaction. This excess adrenaline continues to be retained chemically in the body long after the stress has disappeared.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Diet has also been known to directly affect one&#8217;s stress level. Excess caffeine, alcohol, drugs and substance abuse or sugar also create stress in the body, and all are believed to be contributing factors of panic attacks. <strong>Unresolved emotions can also be considered a factor.</strong></p>
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		<title>Panic Away Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panic attacks are a serious problem plaguing people today. We where genetically engendered to have Fight or Flight instincts this is a chemical reaction to fear and danger a long time ago it was necessary for survival it warned us of danger, it gave us the strength to fight for our survival. But now it [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Panic attacks are a serious problem plaguing people today.</strong> We where genetically engendered to have Fight or Flight instincts this is a chemical reaction to fear and danger a long time ago it was necessary for survival it warned us of danger, it gave us the strength to fight for our survival. But now it is 21st century and those old habits that should be gone have awoken within us and become our own personal prison.</p>
<p><strong><em>Imagine getting the same reaction when a 40 foot beast is going to eat you and not being able to decide what to wear in the morning? </em></strong>It&#8217;s the same old song and dance every time you start to over think something next thing you know it is blown up into something that isn&#8217;t even real, now you lost out on your day because the small clothes dilemma was blown up into a 40 foot beast I know I have been there.</p>
<p>When I was younger panic was very prevalent inside of me. I could take the simplest of things and blow them up into huge monsters. It affected my life, my friends and my family it was terrible. I had a good friend that taught me the hard way to get rid of anxiety. <em>I was pretty lucky to have him I had pretty much disassociated with all my other friends I was quite surprised that he stuck around, when you have anxiety it is very easy to push people away.</em></p>
<p>Well after 3 years of him pushing my buttons to the limit and a whole lot of broken patterns later I am finally free from that prison nothing fazes me now it is pretty cool I feel like a million bucks I can believe it. I honestly never thought i would ever be rid of that.</p>
<p>Panic away helps you break patters and move on with your life. My advice to anybody suffering from panic attacks defiantly needs to address the situation head on. It isn&#8217;t worth losing your life over. I lost a good 10 years of my life suffering from this and I had to endure pure hell to get rid of it, Panic Away will help you in way less time and show you an easier way.</p>
<p>If you want my friend to come over to your house it will cost you, he is a registered therapist that enjoys inflicting as much pain on his patients as humanly possible pushing and poking every little detail until you have only one option break the pattern or curl up in a little ball and beg for a quick death. It was the hardest thing I ever had to endure I spent many days and nights curled up in that ball when I finally couldn&#8217;t take it anymore he was going to get punched in the face. It was like a light bulb flashed in my head and everything became clear. He got a big smile on his face and congratulated me for breaking my patterns I was shocked I thought we were going to be slugging it out.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s the 21st century I don&#8217;t need to go out and kill any 40 foot beasts I only have to go to the McDonald&#8217;s Drive Thru, and I hunt at the local food store, my wild beasts are pre packaged for me.</strong> If I lost everything today it wouldn&#8217;t matter because it&#8217;s just stuff. Life really is that simple folks.</p>
<p>Panic away has a lot of great material and i agree with their methods read it and push yourself to the edge and over the cliff before you know it you will be jumping off the cliff with a big smile on your face. Good Luck.</p>
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