Anxiety Disorders are the most common of emotional disorders. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness to mild unease and intense feelings of fear. Untreated anxiety disorders can push people into avoiding situations that trigger or worsen their symptoms. People with anxiety disorders are likely to suffer from depression and they also may abuse alcohol and other drugs in an effort to gain relief from their symptoms. Job performance, school work, and personal relationships can also suffer.

The many forms and symptoms of Anxiety include:

• Overwhelming feelings of panic and fear
• Uncontrollable obsessive thoughts
• Painful, intrusive memories
• Re-ocurring nightmares
• Physical symptoms such as feeling sick, "butterflies" in your stomach, heart pounding, startling easily and muscle tension

Panic attack

A common type of Anxiety Disorder is a Panic Disorder. The core symptom of panic disorder is the commonly known as a Panic attack. This is an overwhelming combination of physical and psychological distress. Experiencing a panic attack is said to be one of the most intensely frightening, upsetting and uncomfortable experiences of a person's life.

During a Panic attack several of these symptoms occur in combination:

• Pounding heart or chest pain
• Sweating, trembling, shaking
• Shortness of breath, sensation of choking
• Nausea or abdominal pain
• Dizziness or light headed-ness
• Feeling unreal or disconnected
• Fear of losing control, "going crazy," or dying
• Numbness
• Chills or hot flashes

Because symptoms are so severe, many people with panic disorder believe they are having a heart attack or other life-threatening illness.

Relief from Anxiety

You may believe that being free of anxiety is a wonderful idea that's just too good to be true. Whether you've lived a lifetime feeling anxious and scared or you have sudden panic attacks, the thought of being free of anxiety is like a dream that's dangling in front of you, but always just out of your reach.

Getting relief from your anxiety will take some time and effort on your part. You will have to do some soul searching and some house cleaning with the negative experiences of your life. Anxiety is an underlying fear of the future, a feeling of being vulnerable, out of control, and expecting the future to be like the past.

When you resolve your emotional pain about the past, you will be able to take back your personal power, make the changes in your life, that will allow it to be more of what you want it to be. You will discover a new sense of yourself that will excite you and amaze you. Often it feels like being a whole new person!

Counselling and Psychotherapy is a very effective means of support for anxiety disorders. A Counsellor can help you to identify what is a real threat in your life and way of thinking and what isn't. Counselling will allow you to discover that the situations/problems in your life may not be the major cause of your anxiety, instead it can often be how you react to those problems that is the bigger issue. Counselling can help you regain control, this will assist you with managing your reactions, thus reducing anxious feelings. You will be able to control your fear, instead of your fear controlling you.

When you work on releasing your anxiety issues you will discover that you do have power to make your life what you want it to be! If you are interested in receiving therapeutic support for Anxiety, feel free to book an online counselling or telephone counselling session, positive life changes are just a click away!

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