Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Physical Factors That Can Lead to Panic Attack

By Garyl Hany

You just saw someone having a panic attack and now you ponder in your room thinking what cause such a scary experience. If you ask your parents, they might tell you that fear or phobia triggers panic attack and to prevent it, you need to conquer your fear or phobia. However, everyone has his or her fear and even you have one. Is this means you can't avoid panic attacks? Panic attacks also have physical factors and by identifying them, you might realize that you might reduce your chances of having a panic attack.

Your body goes through different physical changes: it lengthens, expands, grows big or shortens. The changes may cause psychological problems and usually the body will feel threatened due to this change. If your body continues to feel threatened, it will reach to a point that it will have a panic attack. Yes, there seems no real fear in this situation. The fear that the body feels is irrational and it is in the mind. This is why most people can't understand people with panic attacks.

The panic attack is also related to insufficient amount of nutrients. Without the right amount of vitamins and nutrients, the body will not perform its day to day tasks properly. If the body is forced to do the task in this situation, it will trigger panic attack to protect itself from other possible health complications.

If we don't consume enough vitamins and minerals, our body will be at risk to numerous health complications. If we get too sick due to insufficient amount of nutrients, we may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. From this point on, we may trigger a panic attack every time we don't consume sufficient nutrients.

Your risk to panic attack will increase if you ingest medications without a doctor's prescription. There are some medications that your body might not recognize and as a reaction, the body will feel threatened and cause panic attack. However, panic attack usually occurs due to sudden withdrawal. This is usually common to drug addicts in the state of withdrawal. They feel threatened after the only things they are dependent to, were taken away from them.

During withdrawal state, the body will be in the state of shock due to changes. It will hyperventilate and then trigger a panic attack. Other than medications, too much alcohol and drugs can also cause panic attacks. If you think that you will have a panic attack, seek medical help immediately before things get worse.

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