mirry
29-11-06, 11:37
I have a good book called "PANIC ATTACKS" by Christine Ingham.
In it she writes about seperation anxiety, and its really hit a cord with me.
Childhood fears:
children are vunerable and sensitive beings, Unfortunately , parents can tend to forget that, and unwittingly do harm by speaking and acting carelessly towards them.Psychodynamic theories suggest that if frightening situations make a great enough impact on children,unpleasant feelings and thoughts can be triggered later in adult life when they find themself in a situation which reminds them of the original ,fearful scene. It neednt be something which has happened in real life; it could be part of fantasy.Dissaproval ,physical threats ,and overwhelming stimulation could all be percieved by children as potentially dangerous situations.
Another incredibly frightening situation for a child to be in is where s/he fears seperation form their mother figure.Initially this seperation anxiety can show itself as school phobia.In later years the anxious feelings can be rekindled when the person finds themself in a situation which reminds them ,perhaps subconsciously, of that same threat.
Panic attacks sometimes begin to occur after an actual or threatened loss of an important person or support system.Perhaps it echoes those early unresolved fears, but although these links have been suggested , it is unclear weather panic attacksare always linked to early seperation anxiety or not.With or without the links with childhood seperation anxiety,losing important relationships or other kinds of suppot does appear to predispose some people to panic attacks.
so it seems that incidents in childhood , the way we were brought up and taught to think about ourselves could all have a bearing on wether someone eventually in later life develops panic attacks.
Subconscious worries and fears can establish, from very early on, a level of anxiety much higher than that of happy-go-lucky people.
And perhaps because of these feelings have always been there , this sort of person is quite unaware of them.
mirryx
In it she writes about seperation anxiety, and its really hit a cord with me.
Childhood fears:
children are vunerable and sensitive beings, Unfortunately , parents can tend to forget that, and unwittingly do harm by speaking and acting carelessly towards them.Psychodynamic theories suggest that if frightening situations make a great enough impact on children,unpleasant feelings and thoughts can be triggered later in adult life when they find themself in a situation which reminds them of the original ,fearful scene. It neednt be something which has happened in real life; it could be part of fantasy.Dissaproval ,physical threats ,and overwhelming stimulation could all be percieved by children as potentially dangerous situations.
Another incredibly frightening situation for a child to be in is where s/he fears seperation form their mother figure.Initially this seperation anxiety can show itself as school phobia.In later years the anxious feelings can be rekindled when the person finds themself in a situation which reminds them ,perhaps subconsciously, of that same threat.
Panic attacks sometimes begin to occur after an actual or threatened loss of an important person or support system.Perhaps it echoes those early unresolved fears, but although these links have been suggested , it is unclear weather panic attacksare always linked to early seperation anxiety or not.With or without the links with childhood seperation anxiety,losing important relationships or other kinds of suppot does appear to predispose some people to panic attacks.
so it seems that incidents in childhood , the way we were brought up and taught to think about ourselves could all have a bearing on wether someone eventually in later life develops panic attacks.
Subconscious worries and fears can establish, from very early on, a level of anxiety much higher than that of happy-go-lucky people.
And perhaps because of these feelings have always been there , this sort of person is quite unaware of them.
mirryx