by Robert Wiggins

Created on: March 22, 2010   Last Updated: March 23, 2010

I used to hate the feeling of panic attack dizziness so much…  It would come on all of a sudden. I would be fine then I started feeling light headed, dizzy and a little nauseous. Then it would hit me like a ton of bricks. The world would start spinning around… At this point I would usually get scared of passing out or fainting. I felt like I was walking on a rope ladder that way swaying in the breeze.

Panic attack dizziness occurs in many cases of panic disorder. It’s a very common symptom. This symptom is usually one of the first that people experience. This is usually the start of a panic attack. When a person starts to get dizzy like this, they generally have an increase in anxiety. This anxiety keeps increasing until the person is suffering a panic attack.

Whenever I experienced panic attack dizziness I would start to freak out. I knew what was coming and it wasn’t very pretty. Thoughts started to race through my head uncontrollably. Would I fall and hurt myself? Would I pass out and never wake up? Was I going crazy? These thoughts would rush through my brain and really make me a lot more anxious. As I got more anxious more thoughts weighed on me until eventually I just could not handle it anymore.

Finally I got to the point where I just couldn’t take it anymore. I decide to stop the panic attack dizziness I was experiencing myself. Nothing else really seemed to help me so I gave it a shot. I found that my breathing patterns were probably to blame for my symptoms. I was breathing fast and shallow and this was causing me to feel dizzy.

I found that I was getting this dizzy feeling because I was breathing a million breathes a minute. I was getting so nervous that I was causing myself to hyperventilate. This heavy breathing was causing the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in my body to get out of whack. When this happened my arteries started to restrict the blood that should have been flowing to my brain. The lack of blood flow to my brain caused me to feel dizzier and dizzier by the minute.

The simplest solution to this panic attack dizziness was to try to control my breathing by consciously trying to breathe from my abdomen. This would help me concentrate on calming down and riding past the wave of fear. If you can face your fear like this you can beat panic attacks before they even start.

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