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Myth or Fact?


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And since it is you doing it to you, to put it simple your mind will protect you from yourself. If you were to pass out it would put everything back to normal. You would have to be on deaths door for your symptoms to hurt you. 
Leave dying of fright for the movies, it doesn't happen.

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That doesn't mean you can ignore your disorder and it will go away. That isn't likely. 
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Myth: My nervous system is in conflict during anxiety attacks, would it collapse?

Fact: Many people are frightened about what might happen to them as a result of their symptoms, perhaps because of the belief that their nerves might become exhausted and they may collapse. The fight / flight response is produced chiefly through activity in the sympathetic nervous system, which is counteracted and balanced by the parasympathetic nervous system putting it back to normal.
 

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