Why Do People Have Panic Attacks?

A lot of people are misinformed about panic attacks and that usually leads people to ask the question “Why do people have panic attacks?”. It is easy to tell with a little story.

A few thousand years back there was 2 cavemen. Both of these cave men wanted to mate with the best looking woman of the tribe. They knew that one of them would probably have to die in order to do this. Evolution provided them (and the females) for a mechanism to deal with this called ‘fight or flight’. What it does is when you feel intense fear, it takes the blood away from your brain and gives it to your muscles so you can either run away fast and survive or stay and fight and survive.

This happened for millions of years because humans needed to survive in the harsh animal kingdom. Fast forwards to today though and we have moved on since those times. We are not likely to die every time we feel danger but our bodies have not caught up with the real world yet. Every time you feel intense anger, your body will react accordingly and your emotions and hormones go nuts. It is your body trying to help you but it is actually quite annoying at times.

So to answer the question “Why do people have panic attacks?” my answer would have to be this. It is a product of evolution that tries to protect us from danger but the outside world has changed so quickly over the last 100 years that our bodies have yet to catch up to the reality that there is no actual danger.

If you have panic attacks then I feel for you because I was there not so long ago and it is a dark place. You can get out of it though. It affects all those around you including your kids. Do you want to give your best to your family every day like they deserve? Then the panic attacks have to stop and you have the power to do it.

How differently would people look at you if you got over your anxiety attacks completely? Imagine feeling the eyes in the back of your head as they would see you walking down the street and think to themselves “What has changed about them? They seem so peaceful, I could do with what they have”.

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