1. What is Panic Disorder:
Panic Disorder is a mental disorder that involves Panic Attacks. One might think that panic attacks just came out of a sudden. Yet, panic attacks usually top a period of extended stress. Panic Disorder is an anxiety disorder that is treatable just like any other mental disorder.
Panic disorder has four components that all contribute to its occurrence and prevalence. During the course of healing, it is important to address all of the components to achieve the best results.
In many times, Panic Disorder is related to things that happened in the past.
For instance, if you went to a library, and you had a panic attack there, you would avoid going to the library in fear of having the panic attack at the same place.
Another example is for a girl who had a terrible experience with a man and experiences a panic attack as soon as she is touched by a man. This girl would avoid situations that make her close to men. She would avoid going into relationships, and this would affect her social and love life, and can make her isolated.
2. Symptoms of Panic Disorder:
Panic Disorder involves a set of physical and emotional symptoms. However, it is important to know that the physical symptoms of Panic Disorder can be mistakenly confused with symptoms of other physical illnesses. Thus, it is necessary to see a doctor as you suffer symptoms of Panic Disorder to make sure that what you are having are symptoms of a mental disorder called Panic Disorder rather than anything else.
Symptoms of Panic Disorder can include any of the below.
a. Physical Symptoms:
- Rapid or irregular heart rate
- Pain in the Chest
- Difficulty breathing
- Dizziness and vertigo
- Fainting
- Flush (going red)
- Feeling heat mainly in the upper part of the body
b. Emotional & Thought Symptoms:
- Feeling that one is out of control
- Fear of fainting in public
- Feeling that one is on the edge of the doom
- Feeling like wanting to stay away from people
- Becoming afraid to go out alone
Symptoms of Panic Disorder can include any of the below.
a. Physical Symptoms:
- Rapid or irregular heart rate
- Pain in the Chest
- Difficulty breathing
- Dizziness and vertigo
- Fainting
- Flush (going red)
- Feeling heat mainly in the upper part of the body
b. Emotional & Thought Symptoms:
- Feeling that one is out of control
- Fear of fainting in public
- Feeling that one is on the edge of the doom
- Feeling like wanting to stay away from people
- Becoming afraid to go out alone
3. Components of Panic Disorder: (These do not necessarily apply during a Panic attack, but they certainly can apply to a Panic Disorder Patient):
A. Mood: It is very natural that someone who has a Panic Disorder to have a depressed mood as a result of the way his situation has become. One would feel bad about himself, and his beliefs, thoughts, and behavior all contribute in increasing his distress and sadness. Symptoms of depression are a very normal and natural result to experience while having a Panic Disorder.
B. Beliefs:
Erroneous beliefs are very normal to have as we have a Panic Disorder. I have been there, and I know what I am talking about. Beliefs are thoughts that we have about ourselves, or about our lives in general. Erroneous beliefs can be something the same or similar to the below.
. I am weak
. I am no good
. Panic is affecting my life a lot
. I have become a different person
. No one can rely on me
. I can do no good to people
. People do not like me the way I am
C. Relationship with Panic:
Beliefs that a Panic Disorder patient has force a set of thoughts, that force as well a set of behaviors. Thoughts that one who has Panic Disorder experiences have only one role, assuring the beliefs and making them prevail to an extent that one will not be able to differentiate between himself and his thoughts.
. What if someone noticed?
. I should not mingle with people a lot
. I might have an attack again
. What if I faint in public?
. What if I go insane?
. What if I die now?
. I have to be certain that nothing bad will happen
. I cannot let this happen, I should not get anxious
. I should run away/ I must escape thisThese thoughts are simply not true, Thoughts are thoughts, and they will not come true. Their only role is to increase our distress and fears, and force a set of behaviors that we apply as a result of our false thoughts and beliefs.
D. Behavior:
As a result of one's thoughts, the Panic Disorder patient will result in a set of behaviors.
- Avoiding situations that might bring on a Panic Attack is the favorite weapon that someone with a Panic Disorder would use, though in fact it is the worst thing one can do. Avoidance's main role is to increase the fear, and keep the Anxiety disorder in prevalence.
- As a result of avoidance, one would seek staying home. A Panic Disorder patient will think that it is safer for him to stay at home instead of facing people and having the risk of people noticing his disorder and symptoms.
B. Beliefs:
Erroneous beliefs are very normal to have as we have a Panic Disorder. I have been there, and I know what I am talking about. Beliefs are thoughts that we have about ourselves, or about our lives in general. Erroneous beliefs can be something the same or similar to the below.
. I am weak
. I am no good
. Panic is affecting my life a lot
. I have become a different person
. No one can rely on me
. I can do no good to people
. People do not like me the way I am
C. Relationship with Panic:
Beliefs that a Panic Disorder patient has force a set of thoughts, that force as well a set of behaviors. Thoughts that one who has Panic Disorder experiences have only one role, assuring the beliefs and making them prevail to an extent that one will not be able to differentiate between himself and his thoughts.
. What if someone noticed?
. I should not mingle with people a lot
. I might have an attack again
. What if I faint in public?
. What if I go insane?
. What if I die now?
. I have to be certain that nothing bad will happen
. I cannot let this happen, I should not get anxious
. I should run away/ I must escape thisThese thoughts are simply not true, Thoughts are thoughts, and they will not come true. Their only role is to increase our distress and fears, and force a set of behaviors that we apply as a result of our false thoughts and beliefs.
D. Behavior:
As a result of one's thoughts, the Panic Disorder patient will result in a set of behaviors.
- Avoiding situations that might bring on a Panic Attack is the favorite weapon that someone with a Panic Disorder would use, though in fact it is the worst thing one can do. Avoidance's main role is to increase the fear, and keep the Anxiety disorder in prevalence.
- As a result of avoidance, one would seek staying home. A Panic Disorder patient will think that it is safer for him to stay at home instead of facing people and having the risk of people noticing his disorder and symptoms.
4. Treatment for Panic Disorder:
It is important to know that the treatment of panic anxiety starts with addressing the three components of this disorder.
1. Mood (Get Treatment of Depression)
2. Beliefs
3. Relationship with Panic
4. Behavior
In order to download the guide that will help you in treating Panic Disorder, click here.
It is important to know that the treatment of panic anxiety starts with addressing the three components of this disorder.
1. Mood (Get Treatment of Depression)
2. Beliefs
3. Relationship with Panic
4. Behavior
In order to download the guide that will help you in treating Panic Disorder, click here.
1. What are Phobias:
Phobia is an irrational and exaggerated fear of a certain thing, place, or creature. The reaction to the causes of fear can range from mild anxiety to terror or panic. Phobic people will always be focused on the slightest chance that a bad thing will happen. For instance, if there is one chance of a thousand that the plane he will take will crash, his mind will be focused on this negligible chance, and totally forgetting that the major majority of people live with such dangers that are part of our lives. Later on in life, the mind will be more and more dominated by this thought pattern that focuses on small chances that a bad thing will happen. The natural response will be avoiding the causes of fear which can then affect one's life and social interaction.
Phobias are all treatable. With enough determination, and through accepting the worst circumstances, and accepting uncertainty, phobias can be treated successfully.
It is important to know and understand and accept that all of us have certain fears, but a phobic person will have them exaggerated and so dominant over his life in a way that gets across his daily life, or across his way as he builds his life and career.
Through gradual exposure, and sufficient training, one will be able to minimize his fears down to normal. Fears will always exist, as they are part of the human mind, and part of his escape mechanism, but it is the irrational fear that we are talking about here.
2. Symptoms of Phobias:
Symptoms of phobias can be obtained through anxiety and panic. Hence the course of treatment and the way one handles his worries and fears is very similar to Panic disorder.
3. Treatment for Phobias:
Treatment for Phobias has many similarities as in the treatment of Panic Disorder. You can skip where not applicable.
In order to download the guide that will help you in treating Panic Disorder, click here.
Treatment for Phobias has many similarities as in the treatment of Panic Disorder. You can skip where not applicable.
In order to download the guide that will help you in treating Panic Disorder, click here.
