Panic Disorder

Panic disorder

        Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder and is manifested by some moments of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that can include chest pain, dizziness, palpitations of the heart, shortness of the breath, abdominal distress. For some persons a panic disorder is a rather violent experience. They feel disconnected from reality, like they are losing control in a very extreme way. The heart pounds really hard, like they can not get their breath back.

       The panic disorder is a condition that can be cured with success. Within all these attacks, the persons who suffer of panic disorder may feel cold, the hands may swarm or may seem numb, and they can experience nausea or a pain in the chest or suffocation feelings. Panic disorder usually produces something that is not real, a fear of an imminent danger or the fear that you may lose control. People having a panic disorder often think they are experiencing a heart attack, or that they are going crazy, or they feel like dying. These persons can not tell when or where is going to happen an attack, and between the attacks lots of people worry too much and are very afraid of another attack.

       A panic disorder may happen in every moment, also when you are sleeping. A common attack can last for 10 minutes, but the symptoms can last more. Studies have shown that almost 6 million people from America are suffering from a panic disorder. This kind of attack is more usual in women than in men. The panic disorder often starts in the adolescence or in the first years of adulthood. Not all the people who suffer from panic attacks can have panic disorder. Lots of people experience just a single attack and never in their life another one.

Panic disorder pictures

       The outset of a panic attack seems to be inherited from the family. Persons who experience constant panic attacks are very affected by their problem. They should ask for a treatment until they will begin to stop going in the places where they had an attack. Some persons start to restrict their lives by avoiding the usual activities, like shopping or even driving. About a third of these people become house bound or they decided to confront the frightening problem only when they are accompanied by other person. If their condition progresses in this way, then we are talking about agoraphobia or also called the fear for open spaces.

       If the treatment is taken on time you can stop the agoraphobia, but the person with panic disorder can go to many specialists for lots of years before someone diagnoses their affection in a correct way. The panic disorder is one of the most cured from all the anxiety disorders, and responding in lots of cases to some types of medicines or certain types of psychotherapy, that are useful in changing the conceptions models which can result in fear and anxiety.

       Panic disorder comes in many cases with some other severe conditions like depression, abuse of drugs and even alcoholism. These problems need separate treatments. Depression symptoms can include feelings like grief or uselessness, changes in the food appetite or changes of the sleep schedule, loss of energy and difficult to concentrate. Many persons can be efficiently cured with antidepressants medicines, certain kinds of psychotherapy or a mixture of these two.

Panic disorder causes

       Although there is no one specific cause for panic disorder, like most other emotional signs, panic is the result of a combination of biological vulnerabilities, ways of thinking, and social stressors.