Do We Really Create Our Panic Attacks?
“Not long from now you will realize that it is you who brings about your own panic attacks,” he said to me.
”Why on earth would I need to create my own attacks?” I wondered. But while learning about the nature of Anxiety and Panic Attacks, at some point in my treatment, the sobering, somewhat shocking, truth was starring me straight in my face. And difficult as it may be to assimilate, I could now clearly see: I Was causing my own attacks.
Panic attacks manifest as a result of our distorted thinking, in spite of the fact that to us they seem like they appear out of the blue. When we gain insight to the nature of the attacks it becomes obvious that the attack itself is in fact a normal emotional knee jerk to a torrent of physical symptoms, caused by anxiety. That is to say ‘normal’ to those who are susceptible to them. And although those physical sensations are by no means perilous, it is our deep belief and conviction to the contrary that speeds up and brings about the attacks.
Anxiety produces different bodily discomforts, all of which are associated with the fight and flight response:
• Racing heart
• Feeling weak, faint or light headed
• Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers
• perspiring or having chills
• Chest pains
• Breathing difficulties and others
As alluded to earlier, none of these symptoms is ever dangerous when felt by a person prone to panic attacks: Well documented is the fact that those in that category do not get heart attacks, faint, lose control, suffocate, or go crazy as a result of their panic attacks. Never!
Confusing what would be otherwise harmless symptoms to be life threatening is where the problem lies:
The only difference between a person who is not prone to panic attacks and the person who is, is that the first, when experiencing any of the anxiety symptoms described above, knows that these are only temporary physical sensations that will not cause him or her any harm, while the latter perceives the physical sensations to be life threatening. Consequently the first will get over them and move on, the second will panic.
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