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Is Anxiety Dangerous? How Anxiety May Be Killing You




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If you suffer from anxiety and panic attacks
you probably always feel like you are sick,
dying or worse!
This is normal. Anyone who has ever suffered
with an anxiety disorder knows what it's like
to worry constantly about how they feel and
to worry about how sick you are.
But is anxiety dangerous? Are you actually
in any real harm's way?
Normal amounts of stress and anxiety are actually
very helpful to us. If you work at a very
stressful job
you know that at times of high stress you
can actually get a lot of work done.
This is because our body kicks into gear,
allowing us to do great things. But when the
anxiety becomes too great, we are unable to
get anything done.
This can be dangerous if untreated, but how
much so?
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to get the full story about the real dangers
of anxiety and panic in your life.
****Original Story I Got The Information From
Here****
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201207/can-anxiety-be-good-us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfNv1jlHqEs


Managing stress and anxiety to live well





Before I even got out of the
Air Force, I had started
really struggling with
anxiety attacks and
sleeplessness and fears.
Getting out of the military was
interesting and exciting.
That maybe presented some of the
most anxiety I ever felt.
It's scary, you know, because
you have this whole life that
you learned.
For me, it was six
years active duty
in an infantry unit.
Now I have to all of a sudden
go be a civilian.
I didn't really notice the
anxiety until actually I got
back from the Academy.
Probably just a natural
reaction, but it seemed
overblown to me that getting
stuck in traffic, I was just
getting so angry.
Well, a lot of my issues were
generalized anxiety.
So I have a lot of issues with
perfectionism and just putting
too much pressure on
myself, which is
definitely from the military.
I think part of it was
self-induced stress.
And I knew I was
transitioning.
I knew I was getting out.
What do I want to
do with my life?
And oh my gosh, what's that
going to be like?
The big unknown.
I got really nervous going
to new places and
places I hadn't been.
I would kind of say,
I don't know.
I don't know why.
But I had a friend that would
say, hey, you want to go to
dinner tonight?
I said, no, I don't want to.
I'd make up an excuse like,
oh, no, I've got homework.
But really I was kind of like,
oh, I'm afraid if I go I'm
going to have an
anxiety attack.
With the anxiety, your
heart races.
I mean, it goes just
insanely fast.
You sweat.
You get paranoid.
You keep looking over
your shoulder.
Insomnia.
You don't sleep.
Your body's so tired, especially
after these anxiety
and panic attacks.
It really feels like ran a
marathon, but you didn't.
I ultimately felt that my
anxiety was kind of
overwhelming.
And it was less that I needed
to manage it, because it was
taking all of my energy
to manage it.
It was taking up my whole day.
I had a panic attack, a
full-on panic attack.
And I still don't know what
I was doing at that time.
I called one of my friends.
I said, you have to drive me,
because I can't even drive.
And that was my first time
going to the VA.
They diagnosed it as
a panic attack.
And my treatment started
from that point.
I missed two weeks at school.
I missed finals, which
the school let me
make up later on.
But after that I said,
you know what?
I really need to get
help for this.
So I went to the VA.
I got referred to see a couple
mental health professionals.
And we talked.
And three months after getting
out, I felt more like myself
than I had in years before.
It started out biweekly meeting
with a counselor.
I mean, it almost felt like
we just had a casual
conversation.
I felt really comfortable
speaking to the counselor that
I was with.
And it really helped
out a lot.
One of the things that was
really crucial to me was
remembering that I did have a
support system, knowing that I
had the capacity to reach
out and ask for help.
I talked to my family who I'm
really close with about it.
And I did have I guess my own
little support channel outside
of the military.
And I wanted to do better
for myself.
My wife pushes me.
Having that person in my
relationship that pushes me,
along with the therapy,
that's helped me out.
And that's I think what's been
helping me out the most,
having that drive
to get better.
I've definitely noticed an
improvement and a difference.
I would say that, especially now
after seeking treatment,
I've been doing much better at
trying to manage my symptoms
and cope with them as they
happen, or even prevent them.


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