When Panic Attack Strikes

Everyone experiences being stressed out sometimes. Without warning or discernible reasons, the feeling can get very intense, fear sets in and deteriorate into a panic situation. The signs are physical like breathing difficulty, body pains and sensations or mental and psychological like utter terror and unwarranted fear. The situation is exacerbated by the feeling of helplessness. Although the panic attack will pass in a few minutes, the experience is very frightening and it may recur repeatedly. There is also the possibility that the person may suffer from depression or develop phobia and other medical and psychological complications.

That people will experience the symptoms every now and then is normal in the daily course of life so there is really no reason to panic. Only if you are having repeated attack will you need to seek help from professionals and specialists. Remember that only therapists and trained medical personnel can properly recognize and diagnose the disorder.

There are many ways of treating panic disorders, so there should be no fear of being unable to have a normal life. Provided that you have undergone treatment, there should be no permanent and lingering complications. The real immediate treat is phobia which can cause you to avoid similar situations that lead to the attack. If an attack happened while you are jogging at the park, you may avoid the park altogether until the phobia gets real. Should the situation worsen further, then you will have a very difficult time affecting your lifestyle and means of earning a living. The sad part is that you don’t have to have that kind of life.

So, what to do to avoid and cure panic attack? Behavioral therapies and medication or a combination of both are the best means of treating anxiety disorders. Actually, studying and understanding what afflicts them will already help people to cope. It may free them of the fear that they are going insane or having a heart attack, among others. Such fears in fact may trigger a real panic attack.  Once you realize that such fears are unwarranted, you have diffused the threat of an attack from that direction. So the fear is more mental than real.  You are afraid of an attack while jogging and not of jogging itself, meaning that you are not afraid of an attack but what will trigger an attack. Anti-anxiety and antidepressants medications can also cure panic attacks. Heart medications that controls and regulate irregular heartbeats are also known to work effectively in certain cases.

You can therefore do you share in helping yourself to supplement therapies and medical treatments.  There are also support groups and mutual aid movements that you can join whose purpose are to help people who have panic disorder problems.  If you are willing to follow and comply with the treatment program, there should be no reason why you will not be able manage and control your disorder. What you must inculcate in your mind is that treatments for panic attack can take a long time. With forbearance and patience, you can expect results and improvements within a year of regular treatment sessions.