What is a Panic Attack?
It is an anxiety disorder that occurs in unexpected situations and progresses with panic attacks. During attacks, intense fear, anxiety and distress are experienced. Panic attacks occur very suddenly, reach the highest level in about 10 minutes and continue for about 20-30 minutes.
How Does a Panic Attack Occur?
An important event occurs that affects the person's external or internal world. This event may be a serious life event such as death, disaster, loss, a heavy responsibility at work, or an exam at school that increases anxiety. An event that creates intense anxiety causes the person to focus on his or her body. Focusing attention on the body causes the normal reactions of the body to be interpreted as catastrophic. For example, normal chest pain is interpreted as a heart attack, numbness in the arms is interpreted as a stroke, dizziness is interpreted as fainting. Catastrophizing comments lead to increased anxiety, increased anxiety, and more intense physical symptoms. This is how the first panic attack occurs. The first panic attack attack usually results in the emergency department of the hospital.
Panic Attack Symptoms
There are 13 symptoms of a panic attack, 4 of the symptoms listed below are required for the diagnosis of panic attack. You must be experiencing one of them.
Palpitation Chest Tightness
Sweating Alienation
Tremors Tremors ; Burning on the skin, Tingling
Suffocating Sensation Fear of Going Crazy
Numbness Hot flushes
Fear of death Dizziness
Nausea
Panic Disorder or Panic Attack?
If you have ever had a panic attack, that is, feeling of suffocation, breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, fear of death, fainting If you have ever experienced fear in the form of a seizure, it is called a panic attack. If you constantly expect an attack after a panic attack, if you constantly worry about an attack in your mind, if you constantly focus on your body and show avoidance behaviors, you are now experiencing panic disorder.
>Is There a Treatment for Panic Attacks?
Yes, panic attacks are a treatable disorder.
Is it possible to be treated without medication? Panic attacks are a disorder that can be treated very successfully without medication. Especially Cognitive Behavioral Therapyachieves very good results in the treatment of panic attacks.
How to Treat Panic Attacks >
Avoidance and safety-providing behaviors provide short-term relief during a panic attack, but they cause panic disorder to narrow the person's life and cause the disease to last longer.
Disease. It increases its effect over the years, causing the disease to be experienced as if there is no solution.
Not engaging in avoidance and safety behavior, such as allowing the child to take the elevator, going out alone, or not running to the hospital during an attack, is an important step in overcoming panic disorder.
It is important to learn two important methods during a panic attack. Firstly, clients usually breathe quickly and through their mouth during a panic attack, which is an incorrect breathing method. It becomes easier to control a panic attack with correct breathing exercise.
How to do correct breathing exercise?
1 Breathe slowly and deeply through your nose.
2 Hold the breath in for a while.
3 Then slowly exhale through the mouth.
This breathing exercise helps you cope with the feeling of "I don't have enough breath, I can't breathe" during a panic attack, quickly. It allows you to avoid the dizziness you experience due to breathing and to see that your palpitations are normal.
The second important method is; During a panic attack, thoughts of "I'm going crazy, I'm dying, I'm having a stroke" often occur in the mind. And you believe these thoughts very much during the attack, and therefore you resort to solutions such as escaping from the environment, taking medication or going to the doctor. It is important to realize that these thoughts may not be real during a panic attack, and to see that the panic attack will pass without escaping from the environment. Enabling you to see that anxiety decreases without leaving your environment is one of the important stages in therapy. This exercise should be done step by step with the help and plan of the therapist. If it is done without the therapist's plan and help, it may cause further anxiety.
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