Anxiety Attack
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[edit] Anxiety Attack(Physiological Condition)
Anxiety Attack is a normal physiological reaction to stress. It helps one deal with tense situations in the office, study harder for an exam, keep focuse on an important speech. In general, it helps one cope. However, when anxiety becomes excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder. Panic attacks are sudden surges of overwhelming fear that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than having anxiety or the felling of being 'stressed out' that mose peole experience. On out of every 75 people worldwide will experience a panic attack at one time in their lives. Source: http://www.anxietypanic.com/
[edit] Anxiety Symptoms
Panic disorders - Separate and intense periods of fear or feelings of doom developing over a very short time frame—10 minutes—and associated with at least 4 of the following:
- Palpitations
- Sweating
- Trembling
- Shortness of breath
- Sense of choking
- Chest pain
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- A feeling of being detached from the world (derealization)
- Fear of dying
- Numbness or tingling
- Chills or hot flushes
Generalized anxiety disorder - Excessive and unrealistic worry over a period of at least 6 months associated with 3 of the following:
- Restlessness
- Easy fatigue
- Difficulty concentrating
- Irritability
- Muscle tension
- Sleep disturbances
Phobic disorders - Intense, persistent, and recurrent fear of certain objects (such as snakes, spiders, blood) or situations (such as heights, speaking in front of a group, public places). These exposures may trigger a panic attack.
Stress disorders - Anxiety (also known as post-traumatic stress disorder) caused by the exposure to either death or near-death circumstances such as fires, floods, earthquakes, shootings, automobile accidents, or wars, for example. The traumatic event is re-experienced in thoughts and dreams. Common behaviors include the following:
- Avoiding activities, places, or people associated with the triggering event
- Difficulty concentrating
- Difficulty sleeping
- Being hypervigilant (you closely watch your surroundings)
- Feeling a general sense of doom and gloom with diminished emotions such as loving feelings or aspirations for the future
Symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, fainting, and weakness generally should not be attributed to anxiety and require evaluation by a doctor. (Source: WebMd eMedicine Reference external link: http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=anxiety+attack&x=33&y=9).
See Also: Psychology
[edit] Anxiety Attack(BAND)
Anxiety Attack is a Kansas City based hardcore punk band. Formed in the winter of 2004 and featuring members of previous punk and hardcore bands New Morning Changing Weather, Olsen Terror, and J.B.K.
Having played numerous shows in the area and gaining more notice the band made its first release on the compilation album "KC-DIY" released in the fall of 2005. This was followed by their debut EP "Fine Art" released on Big Brown Shark records in June of 2006. The single was met with praise from the underground punk and hardcore community garnering rave reviews and making into four reviewers Top Ten lists in the world's most widely distributed punk magazine; Maximumrocknroll.
Anxiety Attack continues on, gaining national and international attention from the hardcore punk underground with a feature on Maximumrocknroll Radio and tours of Europe and Japan.
