Stress Causes Anxiety, Panic Attacks and
Phobias
When a
person has a mental illness, chemical imbalance or a medical
condition, stress can lead to panic attacks, phobias and also
trigger anxiety. Anxiety is a painful strain on the mind that
usually surfaces when a person feels threatened, ill or
concerned and anticipating the worst in their life
situation.
Anxiety is an abnormal, overpowering
sense of fear and sometimes it’s marked by physiological
symptoms, including tension, an increased heart rate and
sweating. When this happens, a person will often
doubt their ability to cope with the threat and view the
threat as an obstacle that is larger than life.
Anxiety
is also a form of stress that we all should try to avoid,
unless some benefit follows suit. Panic is similar to anxiety
since it’s an unsuspected overpowering fear. For example if a
person is suddenly at risk of losing their home due to
financial difficulties, he or she may panic, acting out on
emotions rather than thoughts. When a person has
Bipolar, paranoia personality type, or a paranoid personality
type these people are often
panic-stricken.
Phobia is another
stressor that causes a person to exaggerate a
problem, however, when a person has a phobia, they’ll
exaggerate mysterious and illogical fears that are usually
object related. Similar to a photophobia type that has no
tolerance for light, the phobia has minimal, if any, tolerance
to stress and its stressors.
Now, if this is an ongoing
problem, then we need medical and psychological experts to
help deal with the problem, rather than learning stress
management techniques solely. Anyone with this magnitude of
stress will find some comfort in stress management only if
guidance is available. If the person has a phobia,
panic attacks and anxiety coupled with other mental ill
symptoms, then ongoing therapy will work
best.
It’s likely the person will need
medication to help them cope with the symptoms and stress. A
person with this level of stress is subject to suicidal
thoughts and tendencies. Tendencies can be more life
threatening since the person is inclined to act on impulses
and emotions rather than thoughts. When a person is
acting on impulses and backed by emotions, they will usually
lack the ability to see through the problem, since the mind is
too cluttered to think clearly. On the other hand,
thoughts can be even more dangerous than tendencies.
If
the person is seriously considering suicide and even planning
a strategy to die, while reasoning negatively, the danger is
obvious. If this is you, then you’ll need some mental health
support, medications and stress management techniques that
will help you deal with your fears. The downside is the
paranoid personality and paranoia personality types
hallucinate, feed off illusions, voices and delusions. This
can lead to even larger problems and it’s obvious medications
are the only solution to help the patient cope with his or her
stress.
Of course, stress management should also
benefit the person, however with the paranoia and paranoid
types it’s often difficult to get them into stress management
therapy since they believe the world is out to get them. The
paranoid types often require hospitalization throughout their
lifetime, since stress triggers them to act out on their
symptoms.
It’s also important to help those of
us who are dealing with these types of personalities to learn
stress management coping skills. The paranoid,
paranoia types can drive a person insane. These types of
personalities are major stressors for anyone around them and
cause them stress as well.
For example, a child attends
a school for disabilities, including paranoid personality
type. You’d think the child was getting help to manage his or
her stress; however, the child goes to the store with the
class and curses. The teacher informs the child when he
curses, he has to write 100 sentences. The child becomes angry
because he’s not getting his way and asks the teacher why he
has to write 100 sentences.
The teacher tells the child
200 sentences and the child becomes even angrier, kicking at
the shelves in the store and verbally assaulting the teacher.
He comes home and tells his mother about the incident, except
a paranoid type will never admit when he or she is
wrong.
We have a problem and it includes more than the
person suffering stress because of his mental illness. Thus we
now need to help those who are dealing with these types to
learn stress management techniques to survive the rocky storm
ahead.
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