Symptoms of agoraphobia / panic attacks / anxiety / hyperventilation

The symptoms of panic, anxiety and hyperventilation attacks include (but are not limited to):

- Pounding heart
- Shortness of breath
- Dizziness
- Lightheadedness
- Nausea
- Nervousness
- Bowel problems
- ...

These symptoms are a result of fear.

See, there's something that gives you the first body symptoms: too much caffein, nervous thinking, having slept too little,...

These things can for instance increase your heart rate. You hear that, and think: Oh my, I'm having a heart attack. Adrenalin comes into play, and your symptoms increase. You get more frightened, get more adrenaline in your blood as a result, and things get worse again...

The biggest problem is you loose faith in yourself and you body. You become insecure, get a low self esteem and start to think too much about what others think of you.

And that's where things go bad. The moment where the opinion of others is too valuable to you, you start to fear and analyse your every move. "What will they think if I do this, what will they think if I do that" and so on.

This is very likely to create agoraphobia in you.

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