Medication is usually the first treatment offered for overcoming anxiety and panic attacks. But the drugs have some serious side effects, which can put some folks off their use. Nevertheless, they can be effective if used properly under your doctor’s supervision. Then again, what happens when you are eventually taken off them? Will your anxiety and associated panic attacks just return? Here, you’ll discover the most common medication for anxiety and panic attacks, their side effects, and, how to break-out of the cycle of anxiety and panic attacks.

First though, it’s necessary to understand just how panic attacks occur. Everybody has daily stress and anxiety in their lives. But they still function normally. And when a particular stressful event comes along they are also able to handle that as well. But, where a person suffers very high levels of stress and anxiety on a continual long-term basis, a similar stressful event or situation can trigger a panic attack in them. In other words, it only takes a relatively small increase in stress to cause a panic attack in someone with already higher-than-normal levels of general anxiety.

Usually your doctor, once having diagnosed general anxiety, will put you on a course of drug therapy. These are typically antidepressants and minor tranquilizers, although beta-blockers may also be prescribed. Their role is to manage the emotional / mood symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks by altering your brain chemistry: the physical symptoms in the case of beta-blockers. As said previously they can have good outcomes, although it may take some time for this to happen.

But their side effects can be severe. Typical of these are; nausea, light headedness, disorientation, dizziness, being tired all the time, slurred speech so that you may seem drunk to others, memory loss, and perhaps the most worrying of all; dependency. Another aspect to consider is that sometimes an unwanted side effect can be increased anxiety, irritability and aggression: exactly what you’re taking the medication to prevent. This is why it’s vital that you follow your doctor’s advice to the letter. And never, ever stop taking your medication unless the doctor tells you to do so.

But here’s the thing; drug-based medication addresses the symptoms and not necessarily the root cause(s) of your anxiety. And so many folks find that, after coming off the drugs at the end of their treatment, their anxiety and panic attacks return down the line. And whilst things like cognitive behavioural therapy, and counselling, etc. can try to help you cope with your condition, unless you get to the root cause you are likely to continue having panic attacks.

One of the key factors in recurring anxiety and panic attacks is the ‘fear’ that you may (unwittingly) have of another panic attack. And this is understandable, because the symptoms of panic attacks are so frightening. The fear is so great that it is imprinted into your psyche. This, in itself, can cause an attack, since it builds upon your already heightened general anxiety, so that a relatively small rise in stress can trigger the attack.

This can be looked upon as a Cycle of Anxiety, which can be described as:- anxiety > fear > panic attack > anxiety > fear > panic attack > and so on. So you can see that unless you can get rid of that fear, and ‘break’ the cycle of anxiety, it can be very difficult to stop panic attacks and cure your general anxiety.

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