The Truth About Panic Disorders
People who have never suffered from a panic disorder don’t realize the number of people suffer who actually suffer from them. In reality, panic disorders can affect as much as one in every seventy-five people in North America alone.
The key indicator of a panic disorder is the occurrence of panic attacks. While they can vary in severity and duration from person to person, panic attacks usually all begin with an intense surge of fear and anxiety that occurs without any obvious reason. People who have never had one may dismiss a panic disorder as simply being “stressed out” but it is much more serious than that. Panic disorders can be debilitating and keep people from living normal lives.
Symptoms of a panic attack can include a racing heartbeat, difficulty in breathing, paralyzing terror, tingling in fingers or toes, and sweating or shaking. In severe cases, symptoms can even include choking and chest pains, as well as dizziness and nausea. Some people have described the feeling that a panic attack brings on as knowing that you are going crazy and not being able to do anything about it.
The symptoms experienced by someone who has a panic disorder would be normal if they were in response to an appropriate situation. If you were being carjacked, or held up, or encountered a bear in the woods, all of these symptoms would be a normal ‘fight or flight’ response to danger. What makes these symptoms a panic disorder is that they are not happening under dangerous situations – they occur in seemingly harmless situations and for no reason at all.
While panic disorders are not medically dangerous in the sense that they are not doing damage to your physical self, they can be terrifying, and keep you from going about your normal life. Panic disorders can often lead to other complications such as phobias, depression, substance abuse, and other medical complications. In most cases, these complications develop not because of the panic disorder itself, but because of the fear of having that next panic attack.
And while panic disorders and their symptoms may vary from for each individual, and every patient’s experience is different there is something that can help everyone. Studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapies can be very effective when dealing with panic disorders.
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