Dealing With Panic Attacks
Anxiety and panic disorders are often associated with and even misdiagnosed as agoraphobia, but the two not the same, although some scientists believed that as many as 36% of anxiety panic disorder sufferers also suffer from agoraphobia as well.
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder related to fear. With agoraphobia, you fear being in places where it may be difficult or embarrassing to get out quickly or where you may have a panic attack and can’t get help. Because of your fears, you avoid places where you think you may have a panic attack or panic-like symptoms.
The most common point or fact about treating panic is to let the person know that most of their fears will never ever happen. This is a proven fact that ninety nine percent of your worries never happen. So why worry? Be happy, even if it is for a short while.
Moving On
A panic attack is a sudden surge of overwhelming fear that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than the feeling of being ’stressed out’ that most people experience.
A panic attack is the classic ‘flight or fight’ response that human beings experience when we are in a situation of danger. But during a panic attack, these symptoms seem to rise from out of nowhere. They occur in seemingly harmless situations–they can even happen while you are asleep.
A panic attack is marked by the following conditions. It occurs suddenly, without any warning and without any way to stop it. The level of fear is way out of proportion to the actual situation; often, in fact, it’s completely unrelated. It usually passes in a few minutes; the body cannot sustain the ‘fight or flight’ response for longer than that. However, repeated attacks can continue to recur for several hours.
While most people if they have been in a hostile situation, treating panic and depression with them would have to be more intense with the help of a clinical psychologist and medication, if they feel they cannot move on until it is dealt with.
Not Always A Quick And Simple Process
Treating panic is not just a quick and simple process, countless sessions have to be attended to get to the root of the problem if the person tends to be over dramatic with every little thing that could possibly happen to them, and finding out the reason why they are continually anxious is a good thing to be treated to.
Were these people who continually needing therapy taught this way of thinking? In most cases treating panic means learning not to pass the anxiousness onto others, especially children. Some people don’t take lightly to others having panic attacks or panic attacks, as it is difficult for them to see what all the fuss is about. While these other people see what the immediate problem is, they get in and sort it out as if they were a bomb squad force, they don’t have time to worry about what doesn’t need attention, only the immediate, and then step back. Focus is what it is all about.
For someone to learn this would be quite difficult if they are continually treating panic attacks by themselves, as they have learned over the years how to have an panic attack by literally seeing it happening, therefore proper guidance is advised.
Most specialists agree that a combination of cognitive and behavioral therapies are the best treatment for panic disorder. Medication might also be appropriate in some cases.
Cognitive therapy can help the patient identify possible triggers for the attacks. The trigger in an individual case could be something like a thought, a situation, or something as subtle as a slight change in heartbeat. Once the patient understands that the panic attack is separate and independent of the trigger, that trigger begins to lose some of its power to induce an attack.
Having Self Control
Self control is the first basic step, for treating panic attacks, breathe and focus on things that need to be done, not what could happen.
