Are you one anxiety attack away from losing joy? When you have to spend your day worrying about the next time anxiety can take over your time and day, that’s not helping you and is not the life you want.
You didn’t sign up for or schedule the setback anxiety interruption in your day.
Where now you can be dealing with any number of physical symptoms. And you may even think you’re being a hypochondriac. If that’s the case you want to rule out all the possible health reasons that caused your anxiety attack.
Dizziness and fuzzy brain could have come from nasal or head congestion and allergies, as your nose is connected to your inner ear that controls balance. And your frontal lobe near your forehead is where you do most of your cognitive, rational reasoning.
So if you can’t think clearly and it shows up around the same time every day, you could have developed seasonal allergies.
Hay fever fall symptoms may be worse in the afternoon than spring or summer morning allergies.
If you don’t eliminate common allergies as a potential cause, then that can lead you to create additional anxiety and worry that’s not helping.
Here Comes the Anxiety Attack
An anxiety attack can leave you dazed and unpleasantly change the course of your day. You may feel you need to take the rest of the day off, suddenly rearranging your calendar.
An anxiety attack can also leave you feeling defeated because you’re working to manage your feelings and thoughts that can spew out into your body like uncontrollable bursts, showing up as heart palpitations, sweaty palms, dizziness, etc.
Similar to an anxiety attack, a panic attack can also come on suddenly. Usually, it’s more serious and from a buildup of stressors in your life. This can shock you. You are no longer the same person you were just a few minutes ago where you were fine.
In a panic attack, the automatic functions in your body are still running but usually are frozen or hindered from taking action physically or cognitively.
When you come out on the other side, you are confronted with your life and have the opportunity to make a change so you don’t have another panic attack (or worse warning symptoms).
For me, that was in my 20’s from a series of life problems and roadblocks. Post-trauma I never dealt with and ran away from in my mind by letting the past stay in the past. The problem with that strategy is that your brain doesn’t work like that. Continue reading “What to Do In Your Anxiety Attack? 3 Eye-Opening Possible Causes”