Anxiety Attacks And Their Triggers - By: Karen Larsen

An anxiety attack will normally have a trigger that sets it off. And, usually this trigger is emotionally based. So, emotions play quite a large role in anxiety.

Usually, the first anxiety attack that someone ever experiences is a reaction to some kind of stressful event that occurs in their life.

For instance, the triggering event could be a very negative and scary happening that occurs the first time that a kid goes swimming in the lake. Or, maybe as a person is driving, the first time he takes control of the wheel a horrendous car wreck occurs. In the first instance, the person may develop an abnormal anxiety when he is around large expanses of water. In the second case, the person may carry an anxiety around with him whenever he is inside of a car. In both cases, future attacks of anxiety are triggered by subconscious or conscious memories of those first traumatic experiences.

Many times the outward sign will be something like profuse sweating, heart palpitations, difficulty breathing, or something similar. A person's inability to control his emotions can lead to him manifesting physical symptoms. But, even if the symptoms are not outwardly manifested, it doesn't mean that the person is unaffected. Many times the symptoms are things such as high blood pressure or migraine headaches, neither of which can be identified by observational behaviour alone.

Recent studies of the brain and brain chemicals have indicated that chemical imbalances in the body may play a stronger role than previously thought in making a person more susceptible to anxiety attacks. The fact that many prescription drugs such as benzodiazepines have been so effective in combating anxiety attacks, lends further credence to this viewpoint.

How you feel can have a great effect on your body's chemistry. Researchers have known this for years. Therefore, it is not much of a stretch to recognize the reverse, that a change in the body chemistry can affect anxiety levels.

The common treatment for anxiety disorders these days is a prescription drug of some sort. This is usually because drugs are an easy solution to what may be a more complex problem. In addition, an easy fix like drugs is often welcomed by the patient as well.

The real cure, however, may be the identification of the triggers causing the attacks and dealing with eliminating those triggers. This, obviously, is harder to do as it involves effectively bringing up perhaps long forgotten memories in the patient that are the keys to the cause of their anxieties. But, in the long run, this is probably a more effective long term and permanent solution.

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