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Theory 3: Anxiety Phobias and Panic are learnt.
Could it be that you first felt anxiety during a stressful episode in your life and that you quickly learnt to associate those symptoms with either specific or general stressful situations? If you look for anxiety you can normally find it. If you check to see if your breathing is calm and relaxed you will probably be able to identify some tension. It is very easy to work yourself up into a panic attack or an anxious state. The sufferer starts to believe they have something wrong with them and begins looking for symptoms, relentlessly. Gradually, or suddenly, the sufferer connects anxiety with certain situations and becomes phobic of them. I think this is probably the most common cause and one of the easiest to overcome.
Theory 4: Anxiety is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Many people now believe that anxiety and panic attacks (and therefore phobias) are caused by lack of certain important neurotransmitters, amino acids, and hormones in the brain or elsewhere. Drugs like Prozac and Seroxat work by restoring levels of Serotonin to a healthy balance. Many people don’t want to take prescription medicines and over the years the use of such drugs as a sole approach to tackling anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias has become increasingly controversial. Many people now believe that such imbalances can be cured by taking certain supplements or changing diets. For more information click here to go to the cures section.
All of the above causes are valid. If you can’t work out what caused your anxiety or panic attacks then don’t despair. You don’t need to know how they started just how to cure them.