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Anxiety is a natural response of the human body to a potentially dangerous situation. It is the “flight or fight” response, which releases adrenaline into the bloodstream and enables to either fight for our life or run away very very quickly! When a person is experiencing the “flight or fight” response when they are not in a potentially dangerous situation, this is known as abnormal anxiety and can create feelings that the person is going crazy or having a heart attack or frustration at what is wrong with me.
According to the World Federation for Mental Health, mental health disorders including anxiety and panic disorders affect 450 million people worldwide across all socio-economic groups and cultures.
People commonly express the sentiment that they thought they were having a heart attack or going crazy when they experienced their first panic attacked. Symptoms of having a panic attack include sweating, shaking, increased heart rate, shortness of breath, feeling dizzy or nauseous, fearful of dying or going crazy, having hot or cold flushes and feeling detached from your surroundings. A person experiencing 4 or more of the above symptoms is experiencing a panic attack. The symptoms of a panic attack last for 10 minutes only but the fear of having another attack lingers and can lead to a person withdrawing from situations where they have had panic attacks in the past. This withdrawal can lead to agoraphobia.
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