Anxiety crisis: everything you need to know about it

Whether you are prone to anxiety or not, you should know what an anxiety crisis is and how to deal with it.

Since there is great ignorance about these anxious episodes, Today we have proposed to correctly define the symptoms and causes of anxiety attacks, as well as proposing some tricks and strategies to minimize its impact on the lives of people who suffer from it.

Anxiety crisis: when panic takes over your body and mind

To begin with, anxiety attacks are sudden panic reactions, frequently caused by various triggers.

Symptoms

The symptoms that the person suffering from an anxiety attack may present includes: repeated touching of the face, hyperventilation, chest pains, palpitations, sweating, feeling short of breath, tremors, feeling of a lump in the throat, unsteadiness, panic, feeling of loss of control and numbness of the limbs.

What to do if I have an anxiety attack?

Several psychological keys and strategies can help us catch our breath.

1. Breathing

If you suffer an anxiety attack being alone, we recommend counting the seconds with a clock, while placing your hands on your abdomen. Slowly,

breathe deeply with your abdomen, and focus on the mechanics of breathing.

2. Distance yourself from the source that generates anxiety

In case you are with a person who is suffering an anxiety attack, try distance her from the source of anxiety, if you know what it is. Try to calm her down by applying breath dynamics and encouraging her to follow your instructions: breathe in and out slowly and calmly. Breathe in through the nose and exhale, drawing the air out through the mouth. Address him in a calm and confident tone. Never give him medication or any type of snack that contains caffeine.

It is important to emphasize the importance of abdominal breathingl.

3. A bag to avoid overventilation

If a minute elapses and the person continues to hyperventilate and has stiffness in the hands and arms, we must let you know that we will put a bag near you so you can breathe inside it, so that the discomfort. We should not cover the entire face or head with the bag, simply make the person breathe inside it. It is preferable that it is rather small. From time to time, the bag can be removed from the mouth so that the affected person can breathe. Keep applying the bag until you feel better.

4. If things do not improve, call the medical services

If it were the case that the person who is suffering the crisis had never suffered an episode before, or in the case that the person present oppressive pain and constriction in the chest, sweating and altered breathing, it will be necessary to notify the medical services more hand. In this case, it is not advisable to make him breathe into the bag.

An anxiety attack can stop relatively quickly, or it can persist for several minutes. In the latter case, and especially if the symptoms worsens, it will be imperative request the help of medical emergencies.

Prevent anxiety

One of the best ways to prevent anxiety is practicing sports routinely, perform breathing and relaxation techniques, maintain a healthy diet, sleeping a minimum of eight hours a day and, where possible, control situations that may generate anxiety.

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