What Are The Most Common Anxiety Symptoms

Posted on December 24, 2009
Filed Under Don't Get So Angry All The Time |

Advisory alerts for medical and health conditions such as  heart attacks or seizures are coming to light all over our television of late.  Television and radio ads inform us what to do if we experience light headedness, passing out, numbness, and the like.  But, very seldom will you witness an advertisement clarifying common anxiety symptoms, which is pretty demeaning considering thousands of us go through them and are very often confused by these symptoms.

Feeling anxiety symptoms is very common in our western culture, since we endure high pressure circumstances on a regular basis.  Whether it is the anxiety that we’re lost in an strange environment or we’re going to be late for a date or when the cell phone rings suddenly, we all experience anxiety at some point in our lives.  Lots of people however may experience anxiety symptoms for what seems to be no cause whatsoever, and can misconstrue the symptoms with the symptoms of getting a cardiac arrest or some alternate medical condition.  People who suffer from panic attacks regularly confuse these symptoms.

Panic disorder symptoms are definitely unique for everyone, and frequently it’s clear that we’re just having anxiety – right before speaking on stage, when you’re about to marry, when you open your front door and see a couple of thugs standing there; these circumstances might easily make anyone stressed and nervous!  Although for most of us, anxiety symptoms can also include breathing problems, heart spasms, vommiting, chest pains, irregular breathing, tingling or numbness in the fingers, face, or toes.  Stomach aches, and headaches are not unusual either.  You can understand how these conditions could easily be confused with a cardiac arrest or asthma or any number of other conditions.

If you feel these anxiety symptoms on a frequent basis, and especially if they tend to happen for no reason, you should probably consult with your doctor.  To begin with, you may want to exclude the potential of it being a cardiac arrest or something that dangerous.  Secondly, he or she can prescribe drugs or therapies that can help you cope with the anxiety symptoms while simultaneously working with you to uncover why you’re stressed and anxious to begin with.  You could have some chemical imbalances in the brain or might need to apply some new positive techniques on how to think about an event so that you will be able to side step the flaring up of an anxiety attack before it gets out of control.

I managed to overcome my panic disorder after a lot of trial and error and dragging my family through the agony with me.  The cure I used was entirely natural, medication-free and did not require ongoing counseling – I’m overjoyed to say that I’ve been anxiety free for a number of years now, I only wish I had found it years earlier.

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

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