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Panic Disorders

Panic disorders are characterized by panic attacks that reoccur at unpredictable times with intense apprehension, fear, and terror. The disorder typically begins in young adulthood, but older people and children can be affected. Women are affected twice as frequently as men.

Typically, the first panic attack seems to come out of the blue while a person is engaged in some ordinary activity like driving or walking to work. Suddenly a barrage of frightening and uncomfortable symptoms strikes the person. These symptoms often include terror, a sense of unreality, or fear of losing control. The barrage of symptom usually lasts several seconds, but may continue for several minutes. For example, many people with panic disorders fear that they are having a heart attack, that they're about to lose control, or that they're going crazy. Other people with panic believe that because they can't catch their breath that they're suffocating, or that the dizziness, lightheadedness, and “unreal” feeling they experience means they have a terrible undiagnosed illness. The person with a tightness around the head fears they have a brain tumor. People can be checked, rechecked, and use the hospital emergency rooms repeatedl


Blood-Injection-Injury Type: Fear of seeing blood or invasive medical procedure. (injections, blood test, injury)

Chest Pain Dizziness Loss of concentration Difficulty Speaking Tingling

Difficulty breathing Sweating Numbness Mind going blank Derealization

Some medications that are used are Ativan, BuSpar, Inderal, Klonopin, Librium, Paxil, and Xanax.

Agoraphobia: Panic disorders may progress to a more advanced stage in which the person becomes afraid of being in any place or situation where escape might be difficult to attain. Typically, people with agoraphobia fear being in crowds, standing in line, entering shopping malls, and riding in cars or public transportation. Often these people restrict themselves to a zone of safety that may only include the home or the immediate neighborhood. Any movement beyond the edges of this zone creates mounting anxiety. People with agoraphobia can be seriously disabled by their condition. Some are unable to work, and they may need to rely heavily on other family members, who must do the shopping and run all the household errands ass well as accompany the affected people on excursion outside the safety zone. Thus the person with agoraphobia typically leads a life with extreme dependency as well as great discomfort.

Palpitations Nausea Feeling Faint Hot flashes Chills

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