| Causes of anxiety attacks, in which the sufferer | | | | -- often considered beyond the scientific paradigms |
| suddenly feels a great trembling fear without | | | | and boundaries. Spiritual-related anxiety stems from a |
| warning, are varied. Anxiety attacks find their causes | | | | feeling of emptiness, a void, and a sort of |
| rooted in psychodynamic, behavioral and spiritual | | | | nothingness; and is centered on morality, life and |
| causes. This is further evidenced by increased | | | | death. Spiritual masters say that it is not anxiety that |
| external and internal stresses. When stresses exceed | | | | these people reach, rather higher state of |
| beyond a level that one can normally cope up with, | | | | consciousness. |
| anxiety results. | | | | A number of other factors can also act as causes |
| At a psychodynamic level, it is mostly internal | | | | for anxiety that include genetic, biologic and medical. |
| instincts and impulses that conflict each other, leading | | | | A number of studies have indicated that at least in |
| to distress. | | | | 50% of those experiencing anxiety, have a close |
| At a behavioral level, a person relates to past | | | | relative who has an anxiety disorder. Among the |
| experiences and situations often in a maladaptive | | | | biologic causes, variations in certain brain chemicals like |
| manner, considering them a benchmark to future | | | | serotonin, norepinephrine, and GABA are being |
| situations. Such responses to the past become | | | | investigated as having a link with anxiety. |
| generalized even if the future may be drastically | | | | Among medical causes of anxiety disorders, the chief |
| different and better. | | | | causes are heart disease, tumors, endocrine |
| The spiritual causes of anxiety are a topic of debate | | | | disorders, neurological diseases and infections. |