We can define it as a severe, intolerable seizure of distress and fear that occurs suddenly and recurs in a person, frightening the individual and often perceived as a crisis. Although it seems like a disease on its own, it is actually a symptom and When the cause is eliminated, there will be no symptoms of panic attack. The so-called Panic Attack comes suddenly, starts suddenly, its severity gradually increases, and its severity reaches its highest level after approximately 8-10 minutes, and decreases after a period of approximately half an hour. It disappears.
Due to these symptoms, the person also has to deal with the anxiety he feels about the recurrence of this sudden, out-of-control situation..
Panic attacks include feelings of anxiety, fear, distress (such as fear of death) and It can be seen together with psychological problems or some diseases. The patient is completely afraid in a sudden seizure. He thinks that he will die, that he has a heart problem, that he will have a heart attack. Fear of being alone and feeling safe at home or around family members are distinctive features.
Panic Attack Symptoms:
- Sudden shaking or shaking
- Nausea or abdominal pain
- Head or entire head body sweating,
- A person's breathlessness, a feeling of not being able to breathe at all
- Numbness or tingling sensation in the hands and feet or the whole body
- Dizziness, a feeling of lightheadedness,
- Chest pain or feeling of tightness in the chest,
- Palpitation, strong or rapid heartbeat
- Shortness of breath or feeling of suffocation
- The person's Feeling like fainting or collapsing
- Coldness, chills or flushing,
- Feeling yourself or the people around you changed, strange or different
- Losing control or going crazy fear and fear of death,
Panic attack and panic disorder are not the same thing. Panic disorder is in constant anxiety and fear, thinking that you will have a heart attack, die, have attacks again, or have a stroke. It is due to another disorder. Without it, it can be seen in two ways: with agoraphobia or with a without goraphobia. Situations such as staying away from closed and crowded places and not wanting to stay at home alone are observed. He is afraid of going out alone and ceases to be social.
In Panic Disorder, panic attacks are recurrent, and in the period between attacks, there is a feeling of intense anxiety about the possibility of another attack, causing the person to have dramatic consequences such as brain hemorrhage, heart attack, stroke, going crazy, and death. He/she is extremely afraid of panic attacks, thinking that it will cause a panic attack, and with the expectation of a possible disaster, not being able to go to work, not being able to leave the house, with constant sadness and fear, trying to keep various medicines or things that he/she sees as useful for prevention purposes, expecting an attack even when there are no attacks in his eating, sleeping and behavior. Although the pictures seem similar in terms of the continuity of the situations that occur, they differ in detail. It should be easily said that patients who overcome the attacks safely benefit greatly from PSYCHOTHERAPY. Drug treatments are included in the treatment of panic disorder. However, if we act with the fact that our thoughts have a very important effect on our emotions and behaviors, cognitive and supportive psychotherapies can be used by creating awareness about automatic thought patterns and misinterpretations that cause attacks. The potential for developing symptoms based on personality disorders requires underlining the use of Dynamic Psychotherapies.
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