Adequate treatment favors a regression of symptoms in most cases and allows you to start living your life again with serenity.
- How it looks
- The anti-panic remedies
Ask for free advice from a doctor right away
Adequate treatment favors a regression of symptoms in most cases and allows you to start living your life again with serenity.
The first panic attack is never forgotten and often occurs at a young age. Those who have suffered from it can, even after tens of years, describe the sensations experienced as if the event had just happened. The symptoms are in fact so intense that they are fixed in the memory. The good news is that there are effective treatments that can keep unpleasant sensations at bay.
How it looks
The panic attack is like a bolt from the blue. Suddenly a very high anxiety appears , accompanied by physical and psychological symptoms.
| Physical symptoms | Psychological symptoms |
|
Tachycardia Respiratory difficulties Intense sweating Tremor Dizziness |
Intense fear of dying quickly Fear of losing control Deep anguish |
A panic attack usually lasts a few minutes, and then resolves spontaneously. Sometimes those who suffer from it feel so bad that they think they are in danger of their life.
There are numerous factors that can “trigger the hurricane of sensations that characterize it: crowded, narrow, closed places, from which it is difficult to escape (lift, plane, tunnel, etc.), or situations of tension or sudden relaxation.
In short, the panic attack is a tremendous experience, which makes you feel very bad and which, when it tends to repeat itself, arouses a dangerous anticipatory anxiety for the fear of having new attacks. In practice, in order to avoid suffering, the patient implements avoidance strategies, trying to avoid all situations that may, in his opinion, increase the risk of a new episode. And so you can get to give up many things (cinema, public transport, restaurants, etc.) with heavy repercussions on the quality of life.
The causes of panic disorder are unclear, but some studies suggest that the attack may be an expression of the triggering of a physiological mechanism of reaction to drowning or suffocation, present in mammals, which occurs when oxygen levels in the blood decrease and those of carbon dioxide rise. It has in fact been seen that the use of substances capable of increasing carbon dioxide in the blood can trigger panic attacks in people who suffer from it.
The anti-panic remedies
The main tools for fighting panic attacks are:
- drug therapy
- psychotherapy
- relaxation techniques.
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The drugs of choice are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors that help certain areas of the brain to better use serotonin, a neurotransmitter essential for mood and emotion management.
Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavioral interventions, helps the patient to make contact with his fears and to modify them.
Breathing techniques, yoga , meditation, biofeedback and so on are all methods that can help those suffering from panic attacks not to accelerate their breathing too much which, associated with states of anxiety, can favor the onset of attacks.
From a preventive point of view, a valid advice for everyone is to practice regular physical activity and have adequate sleep hygiene.
