Will you recognize a panic attack if it strikes you out of the blue? Chances are you won’t know what’s happening. Chest tightness and palpitations are the anxiety attack symptoms to become manifest first, but these two could also point to heart disease. Throat dryness, accelerated sweating, shortness of breath and hyperventilation as well as a feeling of suffocation often accompany the pounding of the heart. Some people also experience dizziness, faintness, jiggling and trembling in the limbs together with an incredible panic that death is just around the corner and coming.

The severity of the anxiety attack symptoms can be pretty high and in anatomical terms it translates as the body’s reaction to imminent danger. There is normally a trigger that unleashes the entire array of feelings and this could be a real-life situation or an internal psychological factor that is apparent or hidden to the sufferer himself/herself. Because of this intense stimulation, the the first to react is the cardiovascular system, starting a first wave of anxiety attack symptoms. The heart pumps blood towards the extremities preparing the body for running or for fighting; plus, the blood vessels get constricted in less used body parts such as the skin.

This would explain one of the minor anxiety attack symptoms: paleness. The mouth, the kidneys and the digestive system also experience the blood vessel constriction which causes mouth dryness. The body has to be cooled down, and therefore you’ll sweat a lot when suffering from a panic attack. Plus, the nervous system sends the unload message to the digestive track which may result in other anxiety attack symptoms such as upset stomach or rapid bowel movement.

All the other anxiety attack symptoms represent normal body reactions when sensing danger. The need for superior oxygenation levels is manifest in the accelerated breath or breath shortness. If you have more air you can scream louder. Then, various physical discomforts and pains will disappear during a panic attack because the brain secrets endorphines, the most powerful pain relievers in nature. More energy is consumed, fat is burned, the pupils dilate and your entire perception system sharpens. Consequently, the anxiety attack symptoms represent the normal body preparations when confronted with a frightening, or even life and death situation.

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