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Confusing The Symptoms Of Anxiety

By Zinn Jeremiah

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Published: 17Sep2007
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One of the characteristics of an anxiety attack is a conviction in the person experiencing the anxiety that they are facing some sort of imminent health emergency. A person having an anxiety or panic attack will often rush themselves to a medical care facility, an emergency room in many cases, in the belief that they are on the verge of death or severe incapacitation. People who suffer anxiety attacks will also often become defensive at any suggestion that the symptoms they're experiencing aren't serious.

It's not entirely unreasonable that someone having an anxiety attack would believe they're in the midst of a serious health crisis. The symptoms of an anxiety attack can be similar to some serious health conditions. Symptoms of an anxiety attack can be similar to heart attack symptoms, for instance. Some of the symptoms of a heart attack are chest tightness and tingling in the extremities. During an anxiety attack, a person's chest can feel tight, and their extremities can feel numb and tingly.

A person suffering a stroke can feel a sense of disorientation and can have balance difficulty. During an anxiety attack, it's not uncommon for a person to feel disoriented and dizzy, and to feel unstable on their feet. Of course, obviously, an anxiety attack is not a stroke, and an anxiety attack is not a heart attack. There is mix up between anxiety attacks and heart attacks and anxiety attacks and stroke however. At any given moment, there is someone in an emergency room somewhere who is having an anxiety attack and nothing more, but who believes they're having a heart attack or stroke or both.

One method for determining whether symptoms are actually an anxiety attack is to consider what was happening before symptoms began. If symptoms followed a sense of apprehension or feeling agitated, then an anxiety attack may be what's actually going on. A person can additionally consider their own physical background. It's highly unlikely that someone in their twenties or thirties is going to have a heart attack or stroke, unless they are severely overweight or have been using narcotics. On the flip side, a person in their fifties who is not physically fit should take chest pains or feelings of disorientation very seriously.

As a general rule, it's a good idea to have irregular physical symptoms checked out. What is not healthy however is to be physically cleared yet continue to seek medical care because of perceived symptoms. Thinking oneself to be ill when evidence suggests otherwise is a classic indication of an anxious condition, or of some other form of psychological dysfunction.

Zinn Jeremiah is a freelance writer. For anxiety help, visit anxiety help or anxiety treatment.

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