When a person undergoes stress his sympathetic nervous system starts working and causes a person to sweat excessively.
In addition, the body is pumping more blood to the heart and building pressure.
This is not something dangerous, actually, your sympathetic nervous system is just so responsive that it comes into play often even during calmer situations.
The reason you sweat and pump more blood is to give energy to your muscles so that you could quickly and easily run from a scary situation.
This is not something you have to worry about, Your body is just working towards dealing with a scary situation.
When you have a panic attack you are in a state of fear and you are dealing with the fight or flight response.
This is unfortunate because usually there is nothing scary occurring.
This is one of the main reasons why anxiety can be so terrifying.
Most people assume something is horribly wrong with their heart or their brains when in actuality their body's have create a new response to an unpleasant situation.
When a human is faced with an extreme danger they go through a process very similar to a panic attack in order to run as fast as they can or fight as hard as they can.
This is a mechanism that helped us survive.
Today most people don't have to fight roaming cougars so we don't use that danger response like we used to.
Some people, without knowing it, use the fear response during every day activity.
For example, a person might have a panic attack when they have a boss they can't deal with.
This is a very stressful situation and if it were the jungle you would have to fight him, but because you are in an office you can't.
Since this is no situation to fight or run people with anxiety become confused as to what is happening and usually think it is a heart attack or something else.
In addition, the body is pumping more blood to the heart and building pressure.
This is not something dangerous, actually, your sympathetic nervous system is just so responsive that it comes into play often even during calmer situations.
The reason you sweat and pump more blood is to give energy to your muscles so that you could quickly and easily run from a scary situation.
This is not something you have to worry about, Your body is just working towards dealing with a scary situation.
When you have a panic attack you are in a state of fear and you are dealing with the fight or flight response.
This is unfortunate because usually there is nothing scary occurring.
This is one of the main reasons why anxiety can be so terrifying.
Most people assume something is horribly wrong with their heart or their brains when in actuality their body's have create a new response to an unpleasant situation.
When a human is faced with an extreme danger they go through a process very similar to a panic attack in order to run as fast as they can or fight as hard as they can.
This is a mechanism that helped us survive.
Today most people don't have to fight roaming cougars so we don't use that danger response like we used to.
Some people, without knowing it, use the fear response during every day activity.
For example, a person might have a panic attack when they have a boss they can't deal with.
This is a very stressful situation and if it were the jungle you would have to fight him, but because you are in an office you can't.
Since this is no situation to fight or run people with anxiety become confused as to what is happening and usually think it is a heart attack or something else.
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