If you feel that your hands are sweating, have difficulty
breathing, have numb hands, feel dizzy, start trembling you may be having a panic
attack. I have never known anyone that had been diagnosed with panic disorder.
The only ones I have seen having a panic attack are the people in shows or movies, but I know those people are acting. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, panic
disorder affects about 6 million American adults and is twice more common in
women than in men. I had no idea that it
affected so many people. People with panic disorders have a fear of disaster or
of losing control even when there is no real danger. It may also be a strong physical reaction and
feel like a heart attack. Having a panic disorder can interfere with the
person’s life as it affects their social environment. It might actually develop
not from an object or an event but actually from the fear of having another
attack. Even, when they are not experiencing a panic attack, they can spend
much of their time worrying about when their next attack will be that they end
up missing out on activities and places. In case I got you confused about what
is panic disorder is, I provided a video in which a psychologist describes what
it is. Now what causes panic disorder? The exact causes are unclear but there
are theories that some factors might include family history, abnormalities in
the brain, substance abuse, and major life stress. Usually it is treated with
psychotherapy, medication or both. In the next video that I provided, it shows
the life of James living with panic attacks and how little by little he
overcomes his anxiety of subway. Thursday, April 10, 2014
Panic!
If you feel that your hands are sweating, have difficulty
breathing, have numb hands, feel dizzy, start trembling you may be having a panic
attack. I have never known anyone that had been diagnosed with panic disorder.
The only ones I have seen having a panic attack are the people in shows or movies, but I know those people are acting. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, panic
disorder affects about 6 million American adults and is twice more common in
women than in men. I had no idea that it
affected so many people. People with panic disorders have a fear of disaster or
of losing control even when there is no real danger. It may also be a strong physical reaction and
feel like a heart attack. Having a panic disorder can interfere with the
person’s life as it affects their social environment. It might actually develop
not from an object or an event but actually from the fear of having another
attack. Even, when they are not experiencing a panic attack, they can spend
much of their time worrying about when their next attack will be that they end
up missing out on activities and places. In case I got you confused about what
is panic disorder is, I provided a video in which a psychologist describes what
it is. Now what causes panic disorder? The exact causes are unclear but there
are theories that some factors might include family history, abnormalities in
the brain, substance abuse, and major life stress. Usually it is treated with
psychotherapy, medication or both. In the next video that I provided, it shows
the life of James living with panic attacks and how little by little he
overcomes his anxiety of subway. 
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I can't imagine having panic disorder or even a panic attack. I freak out and stress a lot but I never feel like I can't breathe. I actually have a close friend that has panic disorder and lots of her panic attacks don't even happen because of triggers! Sometimes she has panic attacks because she's stressing about a potential future panic attack. I feel like thats a scary way to live. I'm glad James was able to overcome his fear, but I wonder if that means he won't have panic attacks anymore.
ReplyDeletePanic attacks and panic disorder are things that interest me, because so many people experience this, and they go through their life with the difficulty that this disorder causes them. What interest me most about this disorder is that everyone stresses out about something, but what happens in the brain that causes that stress to be so amplified that it causes so much difficulty in their life? It’s just such an interesting subject.
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