Anxiety Panic Attacks
Probably the most traumatic aspect of anxiety disorder is the occurrence of a panic attack. This sudden onset of fearful symptoms and mental agitation have been described as the most unsettling thing a person can endure without having physical damage done to them.
Anxiety itself is created from the illogical and unnecessary fears that a person may have developed through their life. These phobias can strike without warning when the proper stimuli are encountered. By utilizing the emergency response "fight or flight" system within the body, the first thing to happen will be a flood of hormones, especially adrenaline, into the blood stream.
This action will instantly increase the heart rate and blood pressure with subsequent sweating and shaking. The irrational fear that the stimuli unleashes in the mind will often have the victim reacting in an anticipatory way. In effect they will be responding to what is only subjectively possible rather than the actual threat stimuli. These conflicting messages can create further panic and confusion as the body's reactions fail to sort out the proper action to take to alleviate the condition.
Often a person in the middle of an anxiety panic attack will either freeze up or collapse in a fit of nervous disorder. A panic attack can be so traumatic for some that medical help is sometimes needed in order to calm the person down enough to not be a treat to themselves.
Those who suffer repeated panic attacks will often develop a full-blown case of agoraphobia, which is not a fear of the outdoors but a fear of embarrassment in social situations. These attacks leave the victim feeling so helpless to be in control of their actions that they become severely introverted and hide away from any situation that may trigger an attack of this irrational fear within them.
