This article is about anxiety attacks and how it can affect the lives of people.This article will also highlight
the use of various drugs to help in the treatment and management of anxiety.
Anxiety attacks are natural body reactions, coping mechanisms, against different stress factors and distressing
situations. This could be chemical, physical and emotional reactions that are caused by fear,
apprehension or shock.
These reactions cause a fight or flee response.
Based on studies, people automatically react to stress inducing
activities by either making a confrontational stance or making a decision to avoid stress. Pressure can come from
an emotional problem such as a troubled relationship, demanding tasks, deadlines at the office, fear of an upcoming
test or the pressure of a winning game performance.
All of these factors can produce constant anguish and even
anxiety attacks. A person undergoing an anxiety attack often experiences a feeling of numbness or tingling, shortness
of breath, dizziness, chronic sweating and nausea.
Extreme levels of anxiety can cause serious negative effects
on one's physical and mental health. Anxieties can actually hinder or affect one's day to day activities.
Aside from leaving one emotionally depressed and physically weak, it also causes a person to lose the ability
to make a rational decision.
It is common to hear of cases of people with severe anxiety who have lost their
jobs and failed in their relationships. For those who have become victims of anxiety attacks, life is just a matter
of survival, bereft of happiness, fulfillment and health.
Some people can cope with depression and anxiety, but there
is a significant number of people who do not have the same tolerance. These individuals seek other resources
of help to regain their life such as therapy or the use of anxiety medications.
These anxiety medications along
with therapy conducted by professionals, offer relief and possibly permanent protection from the effects of
stress and severe emotional distress. Anxiety medications differ in the dosage and effects. The ability of these
drugs to suppress chemical and emotional surges, allows a person with anxiety to regain a sense of peace and
tranquility.
Anxiety medications also known as anxiolytics, are prescribed to treat the different symptoms of
anxiety, such as bensodiazepines are prescribed to treat the short term and disabling effects of anxiety.
Non bensodiazepines, however, are used to control the serotonin level in the body which is essential to the body for
regulating anger, temperature, mood, sleep, sexuality and appetite.
They are proven to be less effective than
bensodiazephines. While these medications offer relief, one should still practice caution before taking these
anti anxiety drugs. These are not a cure for anxiety attacks nor do they resolve an emotional or psychological
problem that is actually the source of a person's anxiety attacks.