Difficulty in getting breath or overbreathing?
Skipping or racing of the heart?
Sensation of rubbery or "jelly legs"?
Bouts of excessive sweating?
Smothering or choking sensation or lump in throat?
Tingling or numbness in parts of body?
Feeling that surroundings are strange, unreal, foggy, or detached?
Difficulty in falling asleep?
Avoiding situations because they frighten you?
"If you have answered "yes" to one or more of the preceding questions, it is possible that you have a biologically based anxiety disorder that is fundamentally different from the common anxiety that results from specific conditions of stress."
(The Anxiety Disease: David V. Sheehan, M.D.)
In the following months, I will explore each of these symptoms. Please feel free to e-mail me with your personal experiences with any or all of the above symptoms.
Understanding the symptoms of your anxiety disorder will greatly reduce the stress related with the particular symptom.
I had to share this quote with you. It so aptly describes the anxiety/panic sufferer.
"And no Grand Inquistor has in readiness such terrible tortures ashas anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor know how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharpwitted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor by night."
- Soren Kierdegaard, The Concept of Dread
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