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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

What Causes Panic Attacks?

The first is recognizing that stress has a significant factor in what causes panic attacks. What you need to try to determine, is if this stress is an ongoing issue that is deeply rooted in your thought process either consciously or subconsciously.

What I mean by that is often people grow up with generally feeling scared or fearful in everyday life. This could be caused by many deeply rooted factors such as abandonment as a child by either parent, parents who never gave much love to their child at critical development stages in their lives, or PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) brought on by a terrifying experience.

Have you ever noticed that some people have a carefree response when confronted with an important life decision, scary experience, or they have a carefree outlook on life and generally don't seem to get stressed out about too many things?

I believe this is hard wired into our personalities from both developmental stages of our lives as well as life experiences.

Then their are people who often overreact or become extremely fearful or stressed out over the same experiences as the person who had more of a carefree personality.

Why is this?

Again looking back and comparing the two peoples lives you will probably find some astonishing differences.

The carefree person more than likely had a stable household with affectionate and loving parents and never really experienced anything terrifying in their lives.

The other person may have had an unstable broken family that did not show much love to their child and then this person went on to experience what they "perceived" as terrible experiences in comparison to the other person in the stable family. This person also may have had a life threatening experience that they kept replaying in their mind over and over for years to come. Since this persons perception of fear that was ingrained in their personality from the early onset of a child, will dramatically affect their future perceptions of fear.

The second cause of anxiety and panic attacks is the immediate perception accompanied by physical symptoms triggered by years of ongoing thoughts to actually cause a panic or anxiety attack.

Once you have your first panic attack its much easier to keep having them since you become fearful of the panic attack and its symptoms itself. In laymen terms you start to fear, fear itself, causing the mental triggers that can escalate your feelings and thought processes.

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Jul 1, 2008 Jul 2, 2008