Since my childhood, I've face anxiety issues, from the time when I didn't even know that something of this sort exists. Even after indulging myself into stress relieving activities, consuming fresh and healthy food, and all possible stuff, I still get these attacks every now and then and they've probably gotten even stronger now. Is it normal, or could this be some mental illness?

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist47yrs exp

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It is not a mental illness condition but an emotional one. Since you have had it from childhood there is some early contribution tot his problem and it should have been addressed. Even so it is not too late. It appears like you may have had an escalation of the anxiety in late adolescence and therefore it feels like it is getting worse, and that may be true. You must go for counseling soon. Counseling will help in training you will skills and techniques to cope with the daily challenges in life and will give you a fair chance to manage your life. You must also develop your constitution to make it fit enough to cope with fear, felt many times unnecessarily. You may be taking normal fear and converting it into abnormal fear like anxiety and so on. Take care of the following: Mental stability can be achieved by learning a few skills in handling emotions in an appropriate manner. Stress management skills, which have a lot to do with expressing emotions, will need to be a major part of your recovery program. Emotionally you need the help of a counselor and that will help you tremendously to move from anxiety to normal fear. Please persevere and cooperate through all the support you need and you will come through successfully. Develop your body?s health by physical fitness through exercise, good rest (sleep), and a proper diet. Any way what you need to focus on is to do vigorous exercise of the aerobic kind for the heart?s fitness; meditation for the brain?s fitness; sleep for a well rested mind and body; a sound spiritual well being for good confidence and stability; and a diet with lots of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Vigorous exercise, especially of the callisthenic kind, will make your heart, which is a muscle, grow larger; and then your heart will need to beat less often and you will respond to the anxiety with a calmer disposition. If your mind, constitution, and your emotions are in check and fit, you will never be disturbed again. The earlier you tackle this, the easier it is going to be.  

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