What Are Anxiety Disorders & Panic Attacks?

Anxiety disorders include panic attacks , social anxiety or agoraphobia and obsessive
compulsive disorder or OCD, which causes the development and repetition of habitual
rituals.

People with social anxiety may have specific panic attacks / anxiety attacks in situations
where they feel they may embarrass themselves in some way. The other major anxiety
disorder is generalised anxiety disorder which presents symptoms of one or more anxiety
conditions in varying degrees and can also present you with panic attacks and phobias.

Anxiety and panic attacks induced voidance behaviour can produce agoraphobia, a phobic
condition which causes the sufferer to restrict social interaction and retreat to 'safety'.
Repeated avoidance causes the phobia to intensify until total withdrawal occurs.

Symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks / anxiety attacks include racing heart,
hyperventilation or breathing difficulties, as well as chest pain, nausea or dizziness,
headaches, shaking and trembling, and many more.

During anxiety or panic attacks, sufferers can also experience two very disturbing
symptoms called depersonalisation and derealisation. These cause the sufferer to feel like
they are going mad or losing their mind. These symptoms also make you feel like you are
living in a dream or distant from yourself and/or the world.

The conventional treatments for anxiety disorders icluding panic attacks and
phobias, include cognitive behaviour therapy and medication. Whilst both have their place in
SOME, but not all, cases, many people experience side effects, interactions with other
drugs and withdrawal symptoms and rebound anxiety when trying to stop their medication
which can cause more problems. In the case of "speaking" therapies, there is noted
success but still, millions of people worldwide seem to be stuck in the anxiety and panic
attack cycle.

There are alternatives though which don't use drug therapy.