Brief Explanation About Panic Disorder

The Panic Disorder and Panic Disorder is an anxiety disorder. Although this description and definition have been made for many years, the coming of an effective treatment is recent and the results are promising, which has attracted greater spread of the disease by the media.

Panic Disorder is a disease of organic basis, with physical and psychological manifestations. May present with or without agoraphobia. The meaning of agoraphobia is the fear of open or closed places, situations have in common the fact that the output of the data from these sites be impossible or impractical, such as queues, traffic jams, lifts, cinemas, theaters, concert halls and many others.

In the context of panic disorder occurs, a change from some of the chemicals involved in the transmission of impulses between nerve cells (neurons). The physical sensations and psychological needs of patients are very similar to those that occur in bouts of anxiety and fear that have been discussed: tachycardia, shortness of breath, dizziness, feeling of loss of control, strong desire to escape the situation, feeling of impending death, and others.

The symptoms described above appear suddenly and unexpectedly, without any possibility of control by the patient and for no apparent reason to be (the absence of a stimulus revivalist), often causing the patient to lose confidence in your body, your health and end in itself.

Example of a Panic Disorder:

A certain person traveling in your car to the interior had his first panic attack with symptoms of dizziness, blurred vision and lack motor. This was followed by difficulty breathing, tremors, tachycardia, sensation of chest pressure and imminent death. It was impossible for him to stop in the middle of the road and his fear increased. Physical symptoms gave way after half time and left very tired, but reached its destination. After this incident she was afraid of feeling "it" again, which came so suddenly, that is, for no apparent reason. Decided not to address it on the road because it could go bad again, in fact, thought it was better not to travel more because it could be sick on the road, where there is no help. He had crises in other places that also has to avoid, as a hairdresser and supermarket. Their quality of life worsened significantly since they could no longer rely on their physical and depended on his mother to go anywhere. The mother could care for her case from getting sick.

The organic change, the fear generated by the repetition of unexpected crises, the onset of anxiety before the fact to take place (anticipatory anxiety), the disbelief in their ability and knowledge of the causes of these changes come together in Panic Disorder. The main behavior resulting panic, we can cite the avoidance (flight) situations in which the patient has already felt the symptoms and dependency on others to carry out daily activities. This dependence arises from the difficulty experienced by the person to be alone in those moments, do not believe that can take care of itself in time of crisis. The situations may be quite varied, ranging from stay at home at any time for fear of feeling bad or going out, going to the supermarket, make visits and others

Most of the sensations described above may result in the patient feeling of shame and helplessness that reinforce the difficulty of believing in your ability to care for themselves and preserve their physical and mental. This creates a vicious circle difficult to stop without being accepted certain detailed arrangements.