Panic attacks
Panic disorder is a severe psychological disorder that affects people, and is in the form of intense fear. The person has sudden seizures that are not directly related to the patient. Even the patient is unaware of their cause and over time becomes anxious and afraid all the time. It has no logical reason, it affects his daily performance, hinders his life, and distorts her.
Causes of panic attacks
The cause of panic disorder is still not known, but the following factors may play a role in the occurrence, including:
- Genetics or genetic predisposition.
- The person’s mood, and how sensitive he is to things.
- Changes in the brain.
- Life pressures.
Symptoms of panic attacks
There are psychological symptoms of panic attacks, such as: the control of fear and disturbing thoughts on the patient, in addition to the physical or organic symptoms that may also appear, including:
- Heartbeat accelerates dramatically.
- Shortness of breath, dry throat.
- The tremors of the limbs.
- Rotor.
- Nausea, and sweating.
- Feeling of danger, or fear of death.
- Gastrointestinal disorders.
- Cool, chills.
- Feeling hot.
- Feel numbness, numbness, or poking.
- A kind of separation from the surrounding world, and unrealism.
Diagnosis of panic disorder disorder
The patient is sometimes exposed to panic-like seizures, which makes it necessary to make sure that a specialist is consulted; to examine and diagnose the patient, to properly diagnose the condition, to distinguish between the seizure caused by an disorder and those that have other causes such as seizures Thyroid hormones, arrhythmia, epilepsy, seizures, but not a disorder itself, but a disease.
Treatment of panic attacks
There are many types of treatments that may all or some of them are used to treat panic attacks, including:
Psychotherapy
There are several methods and types that can be used in psychotherapy, such as:
- Individual Psychotherapy: The doctor explains to him that increased heart rate and shortness of breath are not serious physical symptoms, but psychological symptoms that disappear after the end of the Nubia, and can not lead to death or madness, and teach the patient that it is necessary to remember these The facts during the seizure, they help the patient to overcome, and reduce the fear.
- Relaxation and Breathing Exercises: Relaxation reduces stress associated with it. The patient feels self-confident and able to control himself. Breathing exercises calm the physical symptoms associated with the seizure, But the patient and the doctor to talk, and determine their expectations for this type of treatment, and inform the patient that he should learn these exercises and exercise daily without interruption; until fully mastered, and can control his fits of panic.
- Group therapy: This method has proven to be effective in treating panic disorder and controlling it, by collectively treating cases of the disorder itself, and by teaching the mechanisms of seizure control and techniques.
- Biological feedback: This treatment depends on making the patient watch or hear what happens to him and his body while learning to relax, and how his body responds when he is relaxed, such as: hearing his heartbeat.
Behavioral cognitive therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy combines cognitive therapy that modifies and changes the intellectual patterns that cause panic attacks, behavioral treatment of the patient’s behavior during the seizure, and how they control and improve them. The patient suffers from malformations in his thoughts that cause him all the suffering he feels. , The therapist and the patient collaborates in individual sessions to modify these ideas, and control of the self through a cognitive behavioral model followed by the patient, through which he can understand what is suffering correctly, and that Nuba for example is a bout of panic simple and not the symptoms of a heart attack, The difference between this treatment and psychological treatment is that it concerns the present only, does not analyze the patient’s past or life events, but focuses on the patient’s life. The disorder directly, but also uses relaxation and breathing methods; to calm the patient.
Drug therapy
The drugs are used by prescription, but the patient may be addicted to these drugs, and therefore must be treated with absolute caution, and vary recipes according to the situation of each patient, usually used antidepressants, for example to help reduce the panic attack; And relieve tension, and sometimes used sedatives and some special drugs that are administered to panic disorder.
Self-medication for panic attacks
Although panic disorder may require specialized help to make the situation difficult and difficult to control, there is a set of guidelines that a person can overcome attacks in simple cases, including:
- Stay away from alcohol, drugs, and any of the addictive substances.
- Exercise, meditation, and relaxation.
- Relaxing the shoulders, extending the legs alternately, taking the same deep during the seizure.
- Try to slow down breathing, control it, and breathe as quietly as possible.
- Reminds the same person that if he can speak, he is able to breathe; then he does not suffocate, and his suffering will end in peace.
- Increase the patient’s awareness of his condition, and ask the doctor concerned about the cause of the bout; it may be purely organic.