Understanding the Major Causes of Anxiety Attacks (Panic Attacks)
There is often much debate on the topic of the causes of anxiety attacks, which often includes environmental factors, upbringing, and genetic. There is one primary cause that I personally feel is overlooked in such a profound way, without realizing it it would be impossible for anyone to completely cure themselves of anxiety. Click Here to Discover How to Permanently Stop Anxiety Attacks from Your Life! Article Content at a Glance
In 2005 Dr. Richard P. Brown, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University, gave a speech at the University of Massachusettes stating that: "Stress is a worldwide epidemic. The number 1 disease of adults in the world is depression. Depression is the most extreme form of stress." Stress is the number one root cause of both anxiety and
depression related disorders. Let me say that again,
"Stress is the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of both anxiety and
depression related disorders."
Aside from this insight it must also be mentioned that stress itself can cause a multitude of other health problems in our life aside from anxiety related disorders. Stress can increase your risk of cancer at an early age in life. Stress can increase dangerous inflammatory factors called cytokines that damage the Brain and cause memory loss, mood disorders, abdominal fat, and decreases Thyroid function. Stress also causes your blood to become stickier which leads to blood clots, heart attacks and strokes.
While all of this describes the negative aspects of "Stress", it needs to be mentioned that our natural "Stress-Response" known as the "flight or fight" response, is vital to our safety in times of survival and danger. This natural mechanism inside of us helps to indicate to our conscious mind that there is danger or something threatening to the well-being of our being that needs to either be fled from or fought against. I think we all understand that we are completely surrounded by danger in our daily lives. And because of this it's VITAL that we understand those dangers and how we can properly face and deal with them. One of the primary contributers of Stress is the environmental poisoning that we are bathing in every single day of our lives. It's vital that we understand the extent to just how bad our environment is and the affects it is having on our lives and well being. Without the proper knowledge to protecting ourselves from this kind of toxcicity we leave our defenses wide open for inner and outter turmoil.
When we take a look at the world today and compare it with the world of our ancestors of even a hundred years ago, you will be able to see very drastic changes in the way our society functioned from then to now. The lifestyle of the average person, their education, their income level, their food intake, the things they liked to do, the environment they lived in were all very different from what society has grown into today. Our Ancestors, including the beginning of Human evolution, were not exposed to the many different types of poisons and toxic chemicals like we are today. Our bodies don't even have the proper physiological make-up to break-down the toxic chemicals that surround and permeate our bodies on a daily basis. Human Beings are exposed to more toxins now than at any other period in our history. We are literally surrounded from head to toe and all the way around with harmful toxins and chemicals; in our water, our food, our air, and in our homes. A Pesticide Problem In the early 20th century, farmers and crop-growers understood and accepted the fact that pestilence was heavier in certain seasons vs. others. During the bad seasons farmers would spray some pesticides that were deadly to insects but not harmful to people. During the 1940's, pesticide chemicals such as DDT were developed into cost efficient sprays to be used against Malaria carrying mosquitos. This new spray was so effective at killing insects that it even killed the beneficial insects as well as many other species. Consumers, Farmers, and Manufacturers were very excited about the effectiveness of the new pesticides. Now that the insects could all be killed, they would be able to effectively save all of the crops and make a boatload of money. Cities began spraying DDT everywhere and it became the norm and custom to use this type of pesticide against pestilence.
What the people at this time didn't quite realize, is that many of the insects had tremendous reproductive capabilities and those that survived gave offspring to millions of insects immune to the new pesticides. How about that huh? Today, the world is absolutely engulfed in petro-chemical toxins and pollutions. These toxic chemicals permeate our food, our air, our water and our homes. They permeate all biological membranes including human skin and the skins on our fruits and vegetables.
Our foods are saturated with toxic chemicals that we ingest willingly. The cars we drive create an enourmous amount of pollution, the flouride in the water we drink is toxic and causes IQ loss in children, the smell of evaporating solvents from new Computers, Televisions Sets, Video Game consoles are all damaging to our physical and mental health.
Toxic chemicals and pollutions are everywhere and the more and more we take into our bodies, the more we become overwhelmed with physiological stress. This type of poisoning and toxicity is one of the primary contributers to the stresses in our environment. People die more and more every year from physiological disease and people take this as "normal"! This is not NORMAL, just as it is not NORMAL for anxiety to be disrupting your life. It needs to be understood that Human beings did not evolve in a toxic environment, and now that we've created one, our bodies are unable to properly function and process the toxicity of our environment.
So here we are, living in a world of toxicity and all of it is damaging our health, the health of our familys, our friends, and our children. Creating physiological stress that then breaks down our ability to deal with stress, then it escalates and BAM! You get Whacked with Anxiety or some other health destroying condition.
The stress we face in everyday life be it from loosing your job, financial situations, marital disputes, pregnancy, pressure at home or work, uncooperative children, lack of sleep, or anything that may just be bugging the heck out of you. All of this, all of your personal stress eventually takes it's toll on the way you begin to feel about things, about life in general and about your life specifically. For some people this type of stress may create depression and for others develops as anxiety. Anxiety attacks are generally started by an initial catalyst that allows your 'flight or fight' response to take over and handle whatever the situation may be. When this happens, your sub-conscious develops new neural pathways in your brain that regulate your response to the stressor your experiencing and your conscious reaction to it. The new neural pathways are basically created to form an autonomic behavior in you, that would run itself whenever you experience the stressor itself or something you associate or relate with it. Something that reminds you of it, either consciously or sub-consciously. In other words, your Anxiety was created in response to a thought, feeling, sensation, experience, place or thing that acted as the initial catalyst of your anxiety. It then developed this reaction into a habitual response whenever you experienced something that either reminded you of, or that you associate with the initial stressor. Whenever the response is felt the body goes into a sort of shock that we feel we may have no control over. The situation is so terrifying due to a sort of paralysed feeling during the experience that it creates a horrible fear of the experience itself. Once the fear sets into our mind and we begin to worry about our fear we set ourselves up for another attack to occur. It may happen at that moment or a day from that point on. The point is, is that FEAR becomes the primary causes of repetitive Panic Attacks. And it's by BREAKING THE FEAR of having another Panic Attack that we give ourselves control over any other ones we may have in the future. Learn the Secrets of Anxiety that Could End it From Your Life for Good! The Victim Mentality and How it Keeps You in Fear Many people often believe their Anxiety related conditions to be the cause and effect of external circumstances outside of their control. Many sufferers often suggest that their anxiety is the cause of something 'out there' 'attacking them', in a way they are unable to handle effectively. So naturally, we begin to blame anything 'out there' that might be the cause of our condition; everything and everyone except for the real cause and problem - Stress! As we now know, due to environmental conditions our bodies are unable to process the toxicity of our environment, causing us to be unable to deal with the psychological stress we have to face during the course of our lives. It's important to understand that when we carry a 'victim' mindset, we immediately set ourselves up for further disappointment, fear, and stress. When we say to ourselves that the cause to our condition is due to something 'out there' we are telling our sub-conscious mind that we are a victim; helpless and incapable of helping ourselves. That we have no control what-so-ever on the situation and it's outcome. And what happens? We experience helplessness, lack of control, pain and failure even when we try to succeed. The more we entertain such thoughts and ideas, the further reinforced the idea becomes in our mind, and the harder it becomes to undo those behaviors so positive and healthy ones can form. This form of behavior is referred to as 'Operant Conditioning' - a process that displays how certain behaviors of ours, when reinforced and stimulated, 'cement' that behavior into our mind allowing it to form a habit. As you can see, when we condition ourselves through repetition of negative thoughts, feelings, worries, stress and anxities, we reinforce those conditions into our minds even if we desperately want the opposite effect. And on and on we go; round-and-round in an never ending cycle of fear and stress. What we don't realize is if we reversed our thought process - instead of thinking negatively - we would obtain the results we seek. But at the same time this is not so easy and takes serious determination, patience, and consistentcy in practice. When we can come to understand and see things from this perspective we are given a new form of control that we may not have believed we had before. We are finally allowed to see that what we are experiencing is learnt behavior and that we have all the power in the world to un-learn and re-learn something more to our liking and pleasure. Effectively Handling Your Anxiety
This is some of the worst advice that I have ever come across in my studies, reasearch and full recovery from Anxiety related conditions. I'm starting to believe that Doctors could care less about their patients as they rarely ever investigate further into the problem and often attempt to mask the problem with prescription medication. Let it be for the record that a cure does exist and it does not require Doctors, Medication, Therapists or Therapy. Anxiety Attacks and Anxiety CAN be cured naturally, and I can attest to that as well as over 100,000 people from Anxiety recovery programs such as The Linden Method and Panic Away. Both of these programs tackle the approach to recovering from Anxiety in an easy and soothing manner that allows you to get the peace of mind, security and comfort you need to overcome old negative habits that contributed to your anxiety. You are shown how to free all of the stresses in your life and to begin living the life you want to live right away. All of this can be learned from the comfort of your own home and I highly recommend that you take the time to look into these programs as they will no doubt give you the life principles and keys you need to start recovering and shape and live your life the way you see fit. Like this article? Send Us Your Comments, We Love to Hear from You! |
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