Pam Ponders

Cautionary alerts about medical and health cases such as  cardiac arrest or strokes appear to be showing up all over American television these days.  Television and radio advertisements inform us what to do should we experience light headedness, fainting, tingling sensations, and so forth.  However, very seldom will we see a commercial explaining common anxiety symptoms, which is rather demeaning considering a lot of us go through them and are often confused by them.

Going through anxiety symptoms is very common in our society today, where we exposed to anxious events on a consistent basis.  Whether it is the dread that we’re astray in an strange city or we’re going to be late for a date or if the office phone rings unexpectedly, we all face panic at some point in our day.  Many people on the other hand might have anxiety symptoms for what appears to be no cause at all, and can misconstrue the symptoms with the symptoms of experiencing a heart attack or some alternate medical condition.  People who suffer from panic attacks sometimes confuse these symptoms.

Anxiety disorder symptoms are obviously unique for everyone, and often it’s clear that they’re just experiencing anxiety – immediately before speaking in front of others, when they’re about to get married, when you open your front door and see a weird looking stranger standing there; these events can easily make anyone tense and panic ridden!  However for most of us, anxiety symptoms can also include shallow breathing, heart palpitations, vommiting, chest pains, constricted breathing, tingling or numbness in the fingers, face, or toes.  Stomach aches, and headaches are not uncommon either.  You can understand how these could easily be misdiagnosed as a cardiac arrest or asthma or any number of other conditions.

If you exeprience these anxiety symptoms on a regular basis, and especially if they tend to occur for no reason, you should probably speak to your doctor.  To begin with, you might want to eliminate the chances of it being a cardiac arrest or something that dangerous.  After that, he or she can prescribe pills or therapy that can help you deal with the anxiety symptoms while simultaneously working with you to uncover why you’re tense and anxious to begin with.  You could have some chemical abnormalities in the brain or could need to try some new positive techniques on how to mentally process an event so that you’ll be able to minimize the start of an anxiety attack before it gets out of control.

I managed to overcome my anxiety disorder after years of struggle and dragging my family through the devastation with me.  The program I used was totally natural, drug-free and did not require never-ending therapy – I’m overjoyed to report that I’ve been free of anxiety for a few years now, I only wish I had discovered it years sooner.

You can read more about the program that saved my sanity at my how to cure anxiety blog.