Curing Panic Attacks

Panic Disorder Symptoms ? What They Are And How To Stop Them

Many people suffer from panic disorder symptoms and they do not even realize it. People feel fear… it’s a natural human instincts to want to avoid dangerous situations where you might be threatened. Everybody experiences fear there is no escaping it. It is when your fear starts to take over your life that panic disorder symptoms must be stopped. For people that suffer from panic disorders… their lives are full of fear that they cannot escape.

So how do you know if you are actually experiencing panic disorder symptoms? If you’re the panic disorder your feelings of fear and dread never seem to go away. Feeling a little bit of fear is perfectly natural, and it can actually be healthy… but if you’re suffering from panic attacks the spheres overwhelming and can show up at any time. There is no rhyme or reason to this fear and it often appears when you are in no danger whatsoever.

Panic disorder symptoms are often brought on by your mind racing. A person often feels as though they are losing control, and these thoughts really start to scare them. When this happens your body enters fight or flight mode and get adrenaline starts pumping, your heart starts racing, and you start breathing shallow and quick breaths. When your adrenaline and harpy really start pumping you are on the verge of having a panic attack… Add in your thoughts of losing control, and before you know it you experience a panic attack.

There are several different panic disorder symptoms that can be identified in almost all panic attack sufferers. Keep an eye out for symptoms such as heart palpitations, tightness in your chest or ribs, chills, short erratic breathes numbness in various parts of your body, dizziness, headaches, and sweatiness. All of these panic disorder symptoms are psychologically damaging and frightening… these symptoms often lead to irrational fears of losing control and/or death.

It may be a lot of work at first but panic disorder symptoms are curable. You have to be careful with panic disorder symptoms because they can strike at any time… and without any warning. This is one of the scariest things about panic disorders. The fact that they can come out of nowhere and totally debilitate you is absolutely scary. If you fear more panic attacks… you are definitely experiencing panic disorder symptoms.

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How to Overcome Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety attacks and panic attacks; chronic worrying and obsessive thoughts; compulsive behaviours; irrational fears and phobias, even severe depression – these
problems all involve heightened anxiety.
In overcoming them, the goal is not to get rid of anxiety, for to have anxiety is normal, it is a part of being human, helps ready us for action and is there for our survival.
The aim is to understand why it has become so strong, change what it means to us and know how to reduce it and prevent it spiralling out of control.

It is possible to experience anxiety without it leading to panic, obsessions, compulsions or despair – to experience it and yet still be calm. In fact many people do
experience anxiety like this frequently (job interviews / dating / performance situations – sports, social). They feel shaky on the inside but relatively calm on the
outside, this is normal, this is part of anxiety, this is how it feels.

– On a popular TV quiz show, where the contestants answer questions and can double their winnings up to a million, the quizmaster has said to many contestants,
words to the effect – ‘you look remarkably calm’. In nearly every instance, the reply has been the same – ‘on the outside yes, but inside I’m shaking like a leaf ‘. –

To overcome anxiety disorders we have to change our beliefs.

If ten thousand people say you are good and you feel bad about yourself … you will believe you are bad. Conversely if ten thousand people say you are bad and you feel good about yourself … you will believe that you are good. Our reality is shaped by what we feel and believe:

– A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did
what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled and would thrash his
wings and fly a few feet into the air. Years passed and the eagle grew very old.
One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong
golden wings. The eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked.
“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth – we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken,
for that’s what he thought he was. (AWARENESS … Anthony de Mello) –

To change beliefs, we have to understand how and why they developed. We have to understand our experiences, the people involved and more importantly, the
conclusions we drew about our role in them, for it’s not the experiences themselves that do the lasting damage, it’s what we make of them. We have to understand how we learnt to think and behave because of our experiences.

Changing beliefs through insight and understanding is essential to overcoming anxiety problems. However, from shyness to depression, something else is equally
important … changing behaviour. We can’t just think our way out of these problems – to change behaviour we have to do the behaviour (it isn’t possible to learn to
ride a bike just by thinking about it!)
Of course, changing behaviour alone will not help if we still feel bad about ourselves or still have unanswered questions about the problem. Any force over which we
have little understanding and even less control will always hold power over us, for it is unpredictable and could harm us and as such remains frightening.

Therefore:- Successfully overcoming anxiety disorders requires BOTH insight and behaviour change.

We need to:-
Understand the problem (how it developed and it’s effects) to such an extent that the search for  reasons and answers can be given up
Reduce the automatic negative thoughts, images and behaviours
Develop more positive beliefs and behaviours

COURAGE is not the absence of fear. It is feeling afraid but keeping those feelings sufficiently under control to be able to act appropriately.
Once we begin to understand how anxiety disorders work – much of the fear of them is removed.  And when we couple insight and new beliefs to techniques that help reduce anxious thoughts and behaviours and develop new more positive ones … it is possible to truly overcome anxiety disorders.

Treatment for panic attack and panic disorder

Panic attack and panic disorder are medically treatable conditions.  They are generally treated with cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, or a combination of the two.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy is generally seen as the one of the most effective form of treatment for panic attack, panic disorder, and agoraphobia. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the thinking patterns and most behaviors that are sustaining or triggering the panic attacks. It enables you look at your fears in a more realistic light.

If you had a panic attack while driving, what is the worst thing that would really happen? While you might have to pull over to the side of the road, you are not likely to crash your car or have a heart attack. Once you learn and accept that nothing truly disastrous is going to happen, the experience of panic becomes less terrifying and manageable. Panic attack alone by itself is never dangerous.

Exposure therapy for panic attack and panic disorder

In exposure therapy for panic disorder, patients are exposed to the physical sensations of panic in a safe and controlled environment, giving them the opportunity to learn healthier ways of coping and adapting. They may be asked to hyperventilate, shake their heads from side to side, or hold their breath. These different drills cause sensations similar to the symptoms of panic. With each exposure, they become less afraid of these internal bodily sensations and feel a greater sense of control over their panic. Eventually panic won’t control them, they will control panic to manageable levels.

Defining agoraphobia can be a bit confusing. It used to be held by many, that the definition of agoraphobia was a fear of wide-open spaces. Indeed, most current dictionaries still carry this meaning. Possibly, this is due to the word being derived from the Greek words “agora”, meaning marketplace or meeting place and “phobos”, meaning fear. So, the literal meaning would be “fear of the marketplace or meeting place”. However, the more up to date definition is along the lines of: A fear of losing emotional or physical control, following a panic/anxiety attack, in a place or situation where a return to the sufferer’s safe zone may be difficult, embarrassing or, indeed, impossible.

If you have agoraphobia, exposure to the situations you fear and avoid is also included in the treatments. As in exposure therapy for specific phobias, you will face the feared situations until the panic begins to go away. Through this experience, you learn that the situation isn’t harmful and that you have control over your emotions. This treatment for panic attacks will control and eventually remove the fear entirely.