The thing that comes to mind when you say panic attack is the fear of death. But deep down is the fear of being killed. The person may seem afraid that something will happen to him, but his real fear is that someone will hurt him or kill him. The person may now seem to be worried that they will have a heart attack, their unconscious fear is that someone will give them a heart attack.
What happens in the body?
There are two basic emotions in the human brain : to survive and reproduce. It requires food, drink, shelter and security to survive. There are three ways our brain learns for these. When human security is under threat, he wants to protect himself against the threat by attacking him if he can cope with this threat, escaping from him if he cannot cope, and freezing and pretending to be dead if he is too fast to escape. These three paths are so in the wild and have been the same since the first man. The human brain progresses by transmitting the information to the next generations.
Because the person is unconsciously afraid of being killed, his brain goes into attack or escape mode. So what happens in these mods? In order to attack or escape, the body needs adrenaline. When the adrenaline hormone is secreted, the muscles contract, the heart begins to work excessively, and the brain allows all the blood in the body to go to the brain, heart and muscles. It sends less blood to the internal organs at this time. Because at the time of threat, the internal organs do not need to work hard, but good functioning of the muscles is necessary for both fighting and fleeing.
Under normal conditions, the number of beats of the human heart per minute is between 60 and 100. Under 60 shots; If it exceeds 100, it means he is working hard. We stated that when the person enters the fight or flight mode, he begins to secrete adrenaline. This causes the heart to beat fast. Even if the person is sitting, heartbeat suddenly accelerates.
Another effect of adrenaline is raising blood pressure. The person may not know that his blood pressure is rising, but he feels the symptoms; For example, they say they have a headache, lose their balance, run out of energy, have weakness, and lose my life. This is because it takes energy to fight or flee. When the body enters this mode where it sits, it experiences these symptoms because the energy remains in the body. For example, he is jogging Jesus does not feel these because he is wasting energy. In moderate fear, the fight-or-flight mechanism works and the tension rises. However, if the fear is too great to be tolerated, the blood pressure drops. The feeling of chill is related to this. Someone who has a very intense fear gets cold.
The other thing adrenaline does is it starts burning energy in the body quickly, because it takes energy to fight or flee. Plenty of oxygen is needed to burn the nutrients in the body and turn them into energy. Although the oxygen level in the blood is normal, the person begins to breathe rapidly as if he could not breathe at all. It's almost like an air hunger begins. That's how the brain perceives it at that moment. In this case, the person experiences rapid breathing, panic and palpitations. Their rapid breathing also increases the amount of oxygen in the blood.
As a result, calcium level decreases. This causes numbness and contraction.
Excess adrenaline also causes hyperactivity and hyperactivity. The person experiences feelings of restlessness, feeling like going crazy.
What are the causes?
Preoedipal cause: Failure to differentiate can cause panic attacks.
When the baby is born, he has no knowledge of himself and the world. Everyone and everything is one and the same. He perceives what those around him feel or think as his own. It's like everyone is one person. Until the age of 3-6, we expect him to be able to distinguish between his own existence and feelings and the existence and feelings of others. However, not everyone is born into healthy families. Many people fail to realize this separation. How does this cause a panic attack? There is a sense of panic, anxiety, and fidgeting in the person or people who care for the person in his childhood. Since the person cannot be separated from the caregivers, they carry their feelings. With these caregivers, studies are carried out for the person to be separated spiritually. For example, he can teach this distinction to the unconscious by auto-suggestion such as "Panic feeling is my mother's feeling, my feeling of being calm, my mother is someone else, I am someone else." .
Whether male or female, an authority figure in childhood, There are figures he fears. A slightly irritable mother, inconsistent emotion-regulating father. The boy thinks that if he comes into conflict with this powerful figure, if he somehow angers him, he will be killed. The person may not remember it at first, suppress it, or not want to face it. Usually, clients keep this information to themselves because they do not want to disparage their parents. The purpose of therapy is not to vilify someone, but to try to understand a problem by establishing a cause and effect relationship. Looking with this awareness will help them heal.
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