Beginning suddenly and intensifying rapidly, usually accompanied by a strong sense of danger; Panic attacks are bouts of intense fear or distress accompanied by thoughts of drowning, having a heart attack, or going crazy.
During an attack, people may show the following symptoms:
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Increase in heart rate
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Sweating-shivering
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Tingling sensation in hands or feet
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Dry mouth
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Difficulty in breathing difficulty
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Pain or pressure in the chest
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Nausea
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Feeling of suffocation
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Dizziness
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Feeling of fainting
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Feeling of losing control
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Fear of death
When EMDR is applied in the treatment of panic attacks, first of all, throughout the client's life All traumatic experiences experienced by the patient are determined, however, the priority is to work with the first panic attack experience. The client, whose first panic attack experience and the most severe attack experience to date is worked with with EMDR, now begins to feel more in control of the attacks and copes better. The client, who is working with the memory of his first and most severe panic attack, now begins to feel neutral towards those memories and does not feel uncomfortable when he remembers them.
Working with memories with the EMDR method is carried out as follows: For example, for the first panic attack experience, the client is asked to choose the most disturbing scene of that memory when he remembers it. In that scene, the negative belief about himself and the positive belief he wants to achieve about himself are determined together with the client. In addition, how disturbing the client currently finds that memory is scored, and emotions and body sensations related to the memory are determined. Then, by allowing the patient to focus on certain components of that memory with certain instructions, desensitization is initiated with eye movements, which are the basic tool of the EMDR technique. It is continued until the client feels neutral in most aspects of the memory. As a result of treatment with EMDR, clients abandon the false thoughts they believed about panic attacks. “I'm losing my mind, I'm having a heart attack Instead of "I'm drowning, I'm drowning, I'm going to die"; They adopt positive thoughts such as that the feeling of panic is just an adrenaline reaction and that it will not last forever.
Although clients now feel stronger in coping with the attacks, the person actually thinks that they have been negatively affected or emotionally challenged in the past, which paved the way for their current problem. The treatment is not complete without working on other memories, daily life triggers that trigger the current problem, and situations that may trigger possible attacks in the future. It is not possible to expect the attacks to disappear completely without working on these issues. Therefore, all stages of treatment must be completed.
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