Although millions of people around the world suffer from debilitating anxiety and panic attacks that change their lives for the worse, there is still a lot of confusion about it. Many sufferers of this disorder don't even fully understand what anxiety is.
So what exactly is anxiety anyway? Anxiety is a disorder in which your mind thinks that you are in enough danger for your body and mind to react. If there were a circumstance where you were truly in danger, you would see that your body would have many of the same symptoms.
You would breathe much more shallow, and you would notice your heart pounding very rapidly and hard. While these symptoms sound just like a panic attack, they are meant to keep us safe in the event that there is any real danger taking place.
When you have an anxiety disorder however, that means there is something in your brain not sending the right information. Your brain thinks that a simple task is reason to become alarmed and prepare for the worst that can happen. The physical changes that you go through are to protect your safety!
But when you are having a panic attack there is not any actual danger in your way, but only the danger that your mind is making up to play tricks on you.
How can you learn to cope with this?
The human brain is very powerful indeed. Once you convince your mind of something it is very hard to get it to believe something else. This is why stopping anxiety from happening in the first place is so difficult. When the brain believes there is danger, it simply doesn't listen when you try to convince it that there is not.
But it will listen, if only you speak the right language.
It is essential that you get it in your mind that an anxious brain is the cause of your situation. This does not mean there is no cure, and it most certainly does not mean that you can't put an end to it. And most importantly, you must realize that you are not mad, or losing your mind in any way.
Only after you start believing these things will you find out how you can control your anxiety for good. Your mind has been really good at letting you think that something is wrong, and now you must convince it to believe that nothing is wrong.
Anxiety is very complicated and not very easy to deal with for most people. That's ok though, because there are quite a few ways in which you can learn to deal with it without having to resort to drastic measures.
So what exactly is anxiety anyway? Anxiety is a disorder in which your mind thinks that you are in enough danger for your body and mind to react. If there were a circumstance where you were truly in danger, you would see that your body would have many of the same symptoms.
You would breathe much more shallow, and you would notice your heart pounding very rapidly and hard. While these symptoms sound just like a panic attack, they are meant to keep us safe in the event that there is any real danger taking place.
When you have an anxiety disorder however, that means there is something in your brain not sending the right information. Your brain thinks that a simple task is reason to become alarmed and prepare for the worst that can happen. The physical changes that you go through are to protect your safety!
But when you are having a panic attack there is not any actual danger in your way, but only the danger that your mind is making up to play tricks on you.
How can you learn to cope with this?
The human brain is very powerful indeed. Once you convince your mind of something it is very hard to get it to believe something else. This is why stopping anxiety from happening in the first place is so difficult. When the brain believes there is danger, it simply doesn't listen when you try to convince it that there is not.
But it will listen, if only you speak the right language.
It is essential that you get it in your mind that an anxious brain is the cause of your situation. This does not mean there is no cure, and it most certainly does not mean that you can't put an end to it. And most importantly, you must realize that you are not mad, or losing your mind in any way.
Only after you start believing these things will you find out how you can control your anxiety for good. Your mind has been really good at letting you think that something is wrong, and now you must convince it to believe that nothing is wrong.
Anxiety is very complicated and not very easy to deal with for most people. That's ok though, because there are quite a few ways in which you can learn to deal with it without having to resort to drastic measures.
