Anxiety, Fear, Panic - How To Deal With Anxiety And Neurotic Disorders

The more a person is afraid of a panic attack, the more likely it is to be repeated. Every time you react to a frightening situation with fear and avoidance of the situation, you only aggravate it. It is important to do exactly the opposite. Here's how to overcome anxiety.

Anxiety disorders are quite common. Anxiety and the experience of anxiety are united under the name of neurosis. Such disorders are often associated with certain significant events and traumas (especially in childhood). How can we deal with anxiety disorders?

​How to get rid of panic, anxiety and fear
Anxiety is an unreasonable fear, an excitement that we perceive as negative and do not understand what it is associated with. Fear is objective - a person is afraid of something specific.

Variety of Anxiety Disorders

• Generalized anxiety disorder - a constant feeling of anxiety and excitement throughout the day. It intensifies or weakens at different times. Vegetative symptoms are associated with excitement. Vascular tone, palpitations, goosebumps and so on.
• The key fear in any person is fear for life, fear of death.
• Panic is a clearly time-limited condition. But it is impossible to constantly be afraid. Sooner or later, adrenaline depots will be exhausted. In addition to that, adrenaline is rapidly destroyed in the bloodstream.
• Panic attack - a spontaneous trancelike experience that occurs in a certain situation (in a crowd, in a shopping mall, on transport). A person who is not familiar with this suddenly gets extremely frightened. The next time in a similar situation, they experience the same. The self-hypnosis mechanism then starts operating: that which you fear may happen to you.
• Panic disorder is a series of panic attacks. Panic disorder can be linked with agoraphobia (any fear of space) but can happen without it. For example, in a crowded, cramped, empty room. As a result, a person begins to avoid situations that frighten them. Claustrophobia is a type of agoraphobia.
• Phobia is an obsessive, often irrational fear. A person with phobia often understands that what he fears is irrational. No one is afraid of that. But this does not prevent them from experiencing fear. The more a person fights this, the more they suppress this fear, and the greater the likelihood that this will happen to them.

The most common phobias

• Fear for one’s life or hypochondria, i.e. anxious suspiciousness in relation to one’s own health. But people have defense mechanisms that allow them to enjoy life. This fear is associated with the weakness of defense mechanisms that do not allow this anxiety to be pushed deep into the subconscious. 
• Fear of pollution, contamination.
• Social phobias (fear of contact). It involves the fear of dating, the fear of speaking with a boss, the fear of public speaking.
• Isolated phobia.  For example, the fear of spiders, snakes, redness, birds and so on. Most likely, there was a significant event in childhood that shaped this fear.

What else are people afraid of
Fear of going crazy. An adrenaline rush can provoke an altered state of consciousness resembling a trance state. With the experience of depersonalization and derealization (alienation from one’s own body, alienation from experiencing reality). This experience is unusual for people, they are afraid of it, and thus the experience intensifies (the fear of the fear is born). 

How to deal with a panic attack. General recommendations

• Learn to relax and calm down. You can learn various techniques (yoga, hypnosis, body therapy, muscle relaxation techniques). Psychological stress is reflected in muscle tension, it returns to the brain and mental stress intensifies. Therefore, in such situations, it is useful to relax. 
• Understand that you are healthy. You can take the full course of the examination and check for yourself. 
• Be as calm as possible in relation to your panic experiences. It is important to understand that nothing threatens your life at these moments. 

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In this way, panic attacks and other anxiety disorders can be successfully dealt with.