What are the Strategies for Managing those Panic Attacks? Learn what a Panic Attack actually is and how to control or eliminate them. It is crucial you understand what is happening in your body when you feel anxious and start to enter into a panic. These panic attacks commence due to a feeling of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal feeling within all humans as it helps us focus on a specific [...]
In some respects, we haven't really advanced much as a species since the time of the caveman. If you met a threatening animal in the forest, your whole body would prepare you for the flight or fight mechanism, this is what we now call a Panic Attack. This comes from the adrenaline hormone that is released from the adrenal glands. What happens when adrenaline is released quickly into our body? [...]
So what exactly is a panic attack? A panic attack is a physiological response to a perceived threat. In other words, it is the body’s own mechanism to protect itself. In some respects we haven’t really advanced much as a species since the time of the caveman. If you met a threatening animal in the forest, your whole body would prepare you for the ‘flight or fight’ mechanism, this is what we now [...]
