The physical symptoms of anxiety attacks can be devastating.  The shortness of breath. The feeling of terror and panic.  The high blood pressure, chest pains, and headaches.  And nothing you are doing is preventing these attacks.  You react to stress with panic and anxiety.  This is not good, is it? 

Having a strict self examination or self assessment tool to see how effectively you are dealing with stress can be the best way to manage stress and prevent panic attacks.  By using self examination to alleviate or prevent the panic, you will in fact be better looking!  Those dark circles under your eyes from lack of sleep will disappear.  That weight gain from not attending to your diet will melt away.  Your smile will return.

Here are 5 ways to use self examination to manage stress and eliminate panic and anxiety attack symptoms:

1. Know your emotional and intellectual strengths.  Know the internal resources you have to draw on, to attack stress.  Use frequent self-examination to see what strengths are most effective in different situations.
2. Know your emotional and intellectual weaknesses.  Know what internal resources will let you down, and therefore what ones you should avoid calling on.  Set your ego aside and realistically see what areas you are weak in and need to improve, especially under stress.
3. Know what other people are judging you on.  Seriously.  You are being judged all the time, especially at work.  This can add to your feeling of workplace anxiety, over and above the normal deadline and overwork stresses.
4. Be aware of your specific personal goals.  In any stressful situation, you have to deal with the goals set by many people around you.  Knowing your goals will eliminate that internal stress that occurs when you finish a project and feel unsatisfied because you reached someone else’s goals.
5. Know the tasks you should be delegating to others.  Taking on the wrong work is probably more stressing than taking on too much work.  By self-examination, you will know what tasks you need to delegate and therefore not put stress on yourself.

If you don’t do self-examination concerning how you handle stress on a regular basis, you will continue to suffer anxiety attacks.  And they will continue and they will get worse.  This is because you have no knowledge of how to react to stressful situation, because you have no idea of how you react to stress.  Your looks will just spiral downhill, as you eat stress foods, stop working out, and lose sleep.  You think it will be painful to set up a plan of self examination.  It will be much more painful not to.

Self-examination is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  Probably looking for the signs symptoms of panic attacks is part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like a football coach charting out the opposing teams; defense, but not figuring out how to defeat it.  Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes self-examination throughout, will eliminate those side effects that harm your looks and make you better looking.