"When panic and anxiety strike, the body becomes confused, interpreting, overinterpreting, and misinterpreting signals from the brain and reacting with a slew of uncomfortable and sometimes frightening physical symptoms. These can include disordered breathing, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, and chest pain or heart palpitations, to name a few. The body's nervous system becomes overreactive, sending panic and emergency signals to all of the body's other systems."
"This overly complex physical response can elicit truly frightening feelings, and an individual may, in these moments, feel completely at the whim of the body's confusing and chaotic physical symptoms. The natural urge is to meet the body's escalation, to treat it as an emergency situation, and to do whatever it takes to slow down the rush of cortisol coursing through the body."
Panic and anxiety trigger confusing misinterpretation of brain signals, producing physical symptoms such as disordered breathing, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, chest pain, and palpitations. The nervous system becomes overreactive and sends panic and emergency signals throughout the body, amplifying distress. The natural response to this escalation is often to add more adrenaline, which worsens the state. In acute panic, a simple, minimal response is more effective than a complex one. Breathwork and mindfulness, particularly techniques that restore diaphragmatic and regulated breathing, can slow physiological arousal, reduce cortisol and adrenaline effects, and help return the body to baseline.
Read at Psychology Today
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