Anxiety

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Anxiety

When sudden feelings of tenseness, terror and pains pop up suddenly, it can feel paralyzing. Panic Attacks are can have a large effect on the lives of those they visit. Creative Living Center is here to help those who have been affected by, or have a historyof anxious feeling and/or behaviors including Panic Attacks.

 

Signs of a panic attack:
  • Sudden excessive “racing” heartbeat
  • Feeling weak  dizzy or faint
  • Feeling a sense of terror, sometimes feelings of impending doom or death
  • Chills or sweat
  • Chest pains
  • Breathing difficulties
  • Numbness or tingling in the hands and fingers
  • Feeling as if all control has been lost
What to know about panic attacks:
  • Panic attacks strike without warning
  • They can occur during sleep
  • People experiencing panic attacks may believe they are having a heart attack, or going crazy
  • Levels of fear during a panic attack may be unrelated and out of proportion to the situation
  • Panic attacks usually last less than 10 minutes, though symptoms may last for a longer time
  • Those who have had one panic attack are at greater risk for having other panic attacks than those who have never had a panic attack
  • People who have had repeated panic attacks and fear repeated panic attacks in the future may have panic disorder
  • Panic disorder often develops in early adulthood
  • Woman are twice as likely as men to develop panic disorder 
  • The fear and terror that a person experiences during a panic attack are not in proportion to the true situation and may be unrelated to what is happening 

 

  • Keep calm and remain with the person 
  • If the person has a history of attacks and usually takes medicine during an attack offer this medicine to him or her
  • Move the person to a quiet place
  • Ask, rather than assuming what the person needs
  • Speak in short, simple sentences
  • Be predictable
  • Ask the person to focus with small simple, physically tiring tasks like having him or her raise their arms over their head
  • Help slow down breathing by counting slowly to 10