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When your body is consumed by a Anxiety Disorder or a Panic Attack, it releases a shot of adrenaline which courses throughout your entire body. This adrenaline -- sometimes you'll see it referred to as epinephrine causes the nervous sytem to actually stimulate your heart. This means your heart pumps faster. It's your body's physical mechanism setting you up for the classic "fight or flight" options. This served your caveman ancestors well when they were faced with potential physical danger -- like those woolly mammoths. In a panic attack though, the problem lies in the fact that well, there is no problem. Your heart may even be going through palpitations. And while this feels most life-threatening, palpitations are nothing more than an awareness of the actual beating of your heart triggered by a change in the organ's rhythm or rate. Need to learn more about panic attacks? Go to Help for Panic Attacks to learn more! Here's wishing you a future free from panic attacks! |