| There are different types of anxiety attacks; | | | | return. If not, the child could be suffering from |
| each one is attributed to a specific anxiety | | | | separation anxiety disorder. Anxiety attacks are |
| disorder. These include such disorders as | | | | most commonly found with social anxiety and |
| generalized anxiety disorder or GAD, obsessive | | | | social phobia. An attack can easily be triggered by |
| compulsive disorder or OCD, panic disorder/panic | | | | an intense fear of public humiliation, |
| attacks, phobias, separation anxiety and social | | | | embarrassment, ridicule and negativity from other |
| phobia/anxiety. Anxiety attacks triggered off | | | | people, especially those they don't even know. |
| when suffering from GAD (generalized anxiety | | | | The attacks may vary in length and even be the |
| disorder) can be due to constant fears and | | | | result of an unnatural level of shyness. In the case |
| worries about daily activities or continued feelings | | | | where severe anxiety attacks may occur, |
| that a bad event may occur. This disorder can | | | | patients usually avoid situations and any type of |
| trigger off the worst of anxiety attacks because | | | | socialization possible, even isolating themselves |
| the patient is suffering from worry and fear | | | | from others over long periods of time. The milder |
| almost all the time, while dealing with physical | | | | form of this can be classified as stage fright and |
| afflictions like fatigue, upset stomachs and | | | | the attacks from these can vary according to the |
| headaches. Attacks triggered off when suffering | | | | trauma felt by the patient. Though anxiety |
| from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be | | | | attacks vary in their severity, length and intensity, |
| due to the impossibility to control or stop | | | | they are triggered by certain fears, concerns, |
| behaviors or thoughts. These thoughts become | | | | stresses and other anxieties attributed usually to |
| stressful to the point of obsession, so much so | | | | an anxiety disorder. In some cases the anxiety |
| that the constant concerns cause anxiety attacks | | | | attacks are just simply so mild that most people |
| or not acting to prevent something can also | | | | do not even recognize it as a problem, just a |
| cause an attack. When a patient is suffering from | | | | normal reaction to a stressful situation. In other |
| panic disorder, the subsequent anxiety attacks | | | | cases the attacks are so severe that they can |
| can be triggered again and again by attacks lasting | | | | last for days, only alleviated by the wave like way |
| as long as thirty plus minutes, and may be | | | | they decrease and then increase each time with |
| accompanied with or without agoraphobia ( fear | | | | more intensity as they build to a crescendo near |
| of being stuck somewhere where getting | | | | the end of the attacks. In cases that are severe |
| assistance or escaping would be hard during an | | | | it becomes necessary for the patient to have |
| anxiety attack). Most people in this situation will | | | | medical intervention - they have stopped |
| avoid enclosed spaces or public places. A patient | | | | functioning in their everyday lives, are unable to |
| that is suffering from some form of phobia or | | | | enjoy life, cannot tolerate social interactions and |
| extreme fear of something may go to | | | | live in constant fear without good justification. |
| extraordinary measures to avoid situations and | | | | Whether you suffer from mild or more intense |
| things that can invoke their fears. However, the | | | | anxiety attacks, it is very important to seek |
| anxiety from this and the situation they are trying | | | | medical advice. Anxiety attacks that go beyond |
| to avoid, if they cannot avoid it, may trigger of | | | | the basic sweaty palms before a job interview, |
| anxiety attacks fuelled by irrational fears that to | | | | triggered by something unknown are not normal. |
| them in reality pose no real danger, but in their | | | | They are scary, almost physically painful, can |
| minds can cause extreme shock. Anxiety attacks | | | | make you feel physically nauseated and your |
| can become a part of separation anxiety and are | | | | heart is pumping so hard and fast that your fears |
| most especially experienced by children when | | | | increase of your brain releasing more adrenaline. |
| separated from their parents or far from home. | | | | This is a spiraling vicious circle that leads to more |
| It is quite commonly seen in the playground with | | | | and more suffering. Tell someone you know now |
| young children who are starting school for the | | | | and get medical help. |
| first time - a child in what appears to be hysterical | | | | Gary Miller was so scared that he actually passed |
| floods of tears and gasping. However, this type of | | | | out during a presentation and couldn't talk after |
| anxiety attack should disappear as the child gets | | | | due to numerous social anxieties. |
| older and used to the process of separation and | | | | |