What Causes Anxiety Attacks ?

What causes anxiety attacks has been always associated to psychological conditions. While this is true for most cases, there are also other factors that increase the risk of anxiety attacks.

A person suffering from anxiety attacks experience trembling, attack of fear, rapid heart rate, hyperventilation, chills, chest pains, headache, or dizziness. These are just of the symptoms of anxiety attacks. People around a patient suffering from anxiety attacks fear the patient may become suicidal.

The following are factors that cause anxiety attacks:

1. Psychodynamic level factors are those that we call distress factors. These occur when instincts and impulses conflict with each other. As for example, a person suffering from depression knows by instinct that he or she will be ok, however, his or her impulse that depends on his r her reaction to the cause conflicts with his or her instincts. 
   
2. Behavioral level factors are those that relate to the past situations wherein maladaptive manner happened during the experience. It is a common human nature to depend on what we have done before to deal with similar situations. This generalizing attitude increases the risks of patients to be more vulnerable to anxiety attacks.
   
3. The spiritual level causes are experienced when people seem to b losing their life within. These occur when people feel empty, and/or incomplete that often leads to them questioning the meaning of life. These causes are still in debate however as there are other people that believe anxiety and consciousness levels are different.
   
4. Physiological level causes are the health conditions such as heart disease, tumor, endocrine diseases, and infections. 

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