Anxiety attacks during Pregnancy

You’re pregnant. A living set of tissues takes form as you speak of it. You’re 12 weeks into gestation. And you are anxious about having an Anxiety attack. “God”! Let’s get human first.Panic attacks, as they’re also called, surprisingly enough are pretty common. Statistically, 10% of the adult population will undergo this intense assault, at least once in their lives. The risk of facing one is usually inherited, but that isn’t even half the point. Its occurrence is reported to have been found twice as much in women as in men. Menopausal women, have been known to be under considerable risk, for long. But the real mind-bender is to be assaulted while you have a baby inside you. With hormones zooming around, glucose levels on high and low tides, your breathing, circulation, digestion; Pregnancy has your whole body acting like its wartime. And it indeed is, for the fruit has yet to be borne, uncorrupted, and untouched.

Though many complain, that they experienced their first anxiety attack, during their first pregnancy; it is not always the case. Women with early histories, find these attacks coming out of exile to aggravate matters. And it seems like its more of a psychological phenomenon, the physical being just a result of the former. Something has got to be done, before you freak out, literally.

A Panic attack has some unique symptoms. And they appear as if the body is breaking down, when actually, it’s shielding itself from possible harm. To say it in a word, it’s an adrenaline charge. A rushing heart-rate, chest pain, breathlessness ridden with anxiety, an endlessly perspiring body, nauseating dizziness, and a fear of dying, are quite visible.

Its a loss of tranquility, and whatever promises to bring it back, is a relief.

Tranquilizers could be a beginning, but you bear the risk of damaging the Central nervous system of the fetus. Behavioral therapy could be the next option, but you need some homely peace. Meditation is the mother of serenity. The take-in-a-deep-breath mechanism counters panic attacks like nothing else. All you need is 5 or 10 minutes to relax and lose all your toxins, nervous ones of course. Try this, and you’ll find yourself chuckling in the face of a panic attack. And nothing can be more panicky for it.