Panic Attacks Anxiety Disorder

What is Panic Attacks Anxiety Disorder and how do you know if you have it?
Panic and anxiety disorders are two different things, it is possible though for a person to suffer from both and in fact one can lead to the other.
Anxiety itself is a completely normal bodily response when a person faces a situation that results in making them anxious. Everybody feels anxiety at some point in their life and that is normal, situations like public speaking, a new job, going on a date, getting married, starting a new school, all of these things and many more can make a person anxious.
It is when these feelings of anxiety become almost constant and are happening for no apparent reason, this is when it becomes an anxiety disorder. Sometimes a person will feel anxious or fearful for no reason and in an irrational way and if this is happening regularly then it can become a real problem.
A person that is anxious all the time may then develop a panic disorder. The stress that their mind is constantly under can lead to a panic attack and this will then cause them more anxiety which then further increases the chance of further attacks.
Not all people that suffer from panic disorder will have suffered from anxiety disorder first. For many people their panic attacks have started with no prior warning, just an attack out of the blue, although often it will happen after or during a period of high stress.
The biggest problem with panic attacks is that they are incredibly frightening and often people will have an intense fear of it happening again and this fear will often be the cause of another attack happening.
The fear continues and therefore so do the panic attacks and this is when you have a panic disorder, when you are having regular panic attacks.
People that suffer from panic attacks anxiety disorder are going through a very scary and very difficult time in their lives. The good news is that there is help available and this disorder can be stopped.
You do need to change the way that you think about situations and that requires a lot of will power and only you can make that decision to be determined to beat this disorder. Once you have made that decision you are one step closer to overcoming your panic and anxiety attacks.