In fact, we can all feel anxiety about some situations in life. Some 'worries' experienced in daily life such as 'I wonder if something will happen to my child at school tomorrow?, My phone is ringing, I might get bad news...' can be described as normal. However, if this situation has become generalized, that is, if we find ourselves thinking 'what if' in the face of almost every event, if we have difficulty controlling these thoughts, and if we experience this situation almost every day for a long time, we can talk about the existence of an 'anxiety disorder'. In addition to these anxious thoughts, there will be some physiological reactions of the body. Some processes such as headache, irritability, tension, digestive system problems, inability to focus, and difficulty falling asleep also accompany anxiety. If we detect the existence of these situations in ourselves, we should try to get support from an expert. We need to fundamentally distinguish anxiety from fear. While fear is observed in the presence of the feared object, tends to be resolved and is of shorter duration; Anxiety or anxiety does not have a clear object, the individual may feel helpless and lonely in the face of this situation, and sometimes this situation can be observed every day. If anxiety causes deterioration in the individual's life functionality, it must be treated. These treatment methods include psychopharmacological support, psychotherapy process, relaxation and breathing techniques, and stress management. A treatment plan should be prepared, implemented and its effectiveness tested in accordance with the appearance of the individual's anxiety. After discussing anxiety disorder in general terms, let's now talk about the term panic attack. Panic attack; It can be called recurrent, sudden attacks of intense distress or fear or terror that the individual feels unable to control. Panic attacks start mildly and then become more severe. The person actually increases the severity of the panic attack with his own thoughts. Panic attacks show symptoms such as inability to breathe, feeling of suffocation, heart palpitations, shaking, sweating, chills, nausea, numbness and tingling. These are the situations experienced by the individual in the attack object, situation or place. However, when this situation cannot be controlled by the individual and occurs frequently and repeatedly, it is expected that the person will have a continuous attack. In case of anxiety, it turns into what we call panic disorder. In the process of a panic attack turning into a panic disorder, the attacks begin, continue repeatedly, the individual feels constant anxiety about having an attack, his emotional state changes, and therefore a process of change occurs in his behavior. Again, in the treatment of panic attacks or panic disorder, planning drug therapy and psychotherapy support - especially cognitive behavioral therapy method - provides more effective results. The important point in the treatment process is that the individual is open and willing to this treatment process. Within the framework of what we have mentioned so far, it is clear that anxiety disorders and panic attacks are very separate and different processes, even though they are mentioned together in society. In a panic attack, the sympathetic nervous system, one of the body's autonomic nervous systems, is activated, and as a result, situations such as dilation of the pupil, increase in heart rate, cessation of digestive activities, sweating, and decrease in salivary gland secretion automatically occur. In fact, the individual becomes alarmed by this very natural process he observes in himself and intensifies his panic attack. Therefore, in a panic attack, the individual feels himself in a state of attack, and when he cannot cope with it, he reacts strongly. Attacks last a few minutes or hours, so they are different from an ongoing process that operates somewhere in the background of our minds, such as an anxiety disorder. Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks are solvable problems. If you have witnessed such processes yourself, you can cope with it by getting support from an expert...
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