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Symptoms of Anxiety
What should be done when they begin to be felt symptoms of anxiety?
In the first place must be discarded the possibility of any disease of organic nature, through the timely analyzes.
Once determined that the origin is of a psychological, it should make a serious reflection on the type of life that is being carried.
We have to see if the rest is appropriate, that is, if you sleep a number of hours acceptable, and if the schedules are regular. If this is not so, it must be correct and establish timetables to regularize the situation.
Whether the style of life is too sedentary. If so, it is also spend a few hours to some kind of activity or exercise.
Even more important than the previous points is the manner in which is facing situations problem. We must avoid any type of anticipation or thought on the anxiety, this being the most important cause of maintenance and growth of such anxiety, causing even greater insecurity. Agree act with naturalness; the more they observe the possible signs of anxiety, the more likely to happen.
In some cases, the first signs of the beginning of a crisis of anxiety, often manifests itself through a slight tingling in hands. This means that there is an excess of oxygenation caused by hyperventilation as we have explained. At this time is ideal breathing diaphragmatic breathing, slow, retaining the air with inspiration and expelled with the more slowly as possible. The ideal is to inspire filling the lungs to the maximum at once to observe how increases the volume of our abdomen, retain a little air and immediately expel slowly, in such a way that the tidal lasts approximately twice as long as inspiration. It is sometimes used a plastic bag to breathe within it, so that after a few minutes is reducing the level of oxygen in the body and disappears the tingling sensation.
Another symptom anticipatory tends to be a sudden feeling of loss of balance, dizziness or instability. In these situations, it is advisable not to fix the attention in our body and on the contrary, focusing on the outside. For example, directing the view toward something far, trying identify it, can help regain or maintain the balance. It comes to running the vision care in a different direction to our body. It also can do the same exercise with the rest of the senses, addressing always outwards, never to our body. Try to identify sounds far away, cars, voices or anything else, can be a valid system to get blur our attention of the problem.
There are to spend the time it is necessary to achieve relax. Once it has managed to avoid or minimize the crisis situation, it is not more always gratificarnos with some small satisfaction. In the end the correct implementation of these instructions, requires a certain training and get the result suitable, it is an achievement that us closer toward the future control of our body and therefore to the solution of the problem.