One of the most common questions asked with reference to anxiety and stress is whether or not these conditions cause heart disease.

Panic attacks usually involve sudden development of emotions such as anxiety, fear or extreme feeling of discomfort. These emotions are followed by some additional symptoms. 

Panic attacks have always been associated to cardiovascular risks such as anger, depression and even hostility. Hypertension is yet another symptom associated to panic attacks. Anxiety or stress is known to add up to adverse effects of cardiovascular problems including enhanced blood clotting tendency, coronary artery spasm or heart rhythm disturbances.

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Anxiety has a way of crimping our style. Excessive worry makes us avoid certain activities, opportunities, or experiences that may good for us, fun or valuable towards career advancement. 

This is a problem that many panic attack and anxiety sufferers complain about; the ability to do new things, try new activities, and take on new challenges is severely curtailed by the oppressive feelings that at any moment could tighten their chest, make breathing difficulty and death seem imminent.

If you associate the new or unusual with the unpleasant sensations of a panic attack, chances are you will do everything in your power to avoid being exposed to these types of situations. 

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The best approach to dealing with your anxiety is to reduce your anxious thoughts. In other words don’t worry, be happy. While this is a very simple statement and a simple concept, it can be very difficult to achieve. 

There are powerful roadblocks in your way and you have to work to avoid them and break them down so you can stay on the happy path. Rather than sitting and endlessly fretting over your problems take proactive action. If you are upset about money, develop a budget, formulate a career change, go back to school, or look for promotion opportunities. 

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By attacking the attacks before it becomes a real problem, you are not necessarily curing yourself of anxiety, panic or panic attacks but you are preventing it from becoming an unmanageable problem. 

Many people will try to tell you that they can cure your panic, your anxiety, your depression or any other unpleasant feeling you may have. The truth is these feelings are not curable; they are natural feelings that are part of our lives. They tend to crop up when the situation warrants. 

Your brother dies, you get depressed, you lose your job and you get anxious. This is the way things work. How they don’t work is that you get in panic  when you’re in the produce section because you’re unsure about what to make for dinner or you have anxious feelings when sitting at home with your family or getting your nails done at the salon. These are unusual and unnatural times for anxiety to crop up and for attacks to strike. 

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Unfortunately, reading a couple of pages won’t cure your problems. Anyone who suffers from true anxiety and panic knows the crisis isn’t going to go away overnight. In fact, fear will always be present in your life unless you decide to live in a bubble and even then there is stuff to be anxious about. 

Worries help us even while taking a toll. It often makes you work harder, prepare more and perform better. It is our body’s way of telling us to get into gear or protecting us in cases of emergency. Walking down a dark alley is sure to be anxiety provoking, your body becomes highly attuned to danger and prepares to fight or flee in the event of an emergency. 

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