Panic Attacks-To Die Or Not To Die  Pt 1
 
To die or not to die. That is the question over 20 million Americans may be asking themselves today, as they struggle with a disorder that has been labeled as anxiety disorder, phobia attacks and just plain panic attacks.  If you are one of the 20 million, you don’t have to be told that any of these anxiety disorders affect you both physically and emotionally.  It not only affects your health with symptoms such as accelerated heart beat, loss of concentration, profuse sweating, dizziness, loss of sleep; it also causes conflicted feelings of fear and anxiety as well as the inability to cope with life events, so much so that your previously productive lifestyle has been brought to an abrupt halt. Your life has become such a roller-coaster of fear, anxiety, panic, confusion and immobility that you literally want to end it all.
 
For those trying to cope with a loved one or friend who is experiencing this kind of panic attack disorder, your main problem is perhaps due to the inability to understand what is happening to your loved one.  Surely anyone can “get over” feelings of fear, anxiety, or stress that occur from daily activities.  Our purpose is to provide additional insight into the effects and causes of phobia, anxiety and panic attacks and to offer encouragement that lives can be reclaimed from the effects of these devastating disorders.  
 
It may or may not be comforting to families afflicted with anxiety disorders to know that they are not alone in combating this affliction.  Studies and doctors’ reports show that stress, panic, anxiety and depression afflictions have increased to the level of being epidemic. One of the most common causes for panic attacks is the inability to handle stress and we certainly could cite numerous causes for stress in our culture today, but we won’t.  Other causes are attributed to biological and heredity factors. The most interesting studies explain the obvious cause as the fight or flight syndrome; that is the body most naturally responding to danger with a surge to fight the impending panic attack with adrenaline as protection against that danger.