Understand Panic Attacks
Understanding Panic
Panic is an intense feeling of fear or apprehension that happens quite suddenly, with or without cause. It can be a very frightening upsetting and uncomfortable feeling of disorder, like one is going to die, even.
The fear that is experienced is so strong that it is almost palpable and may even prevail over reason or logical thinking.
It is often accompanied by heavy breathing, rapid heartbeat, sweating, light-headedness, blurred vision etc. Panic c
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an happen to an individual person or may affect a whole group of people like a sudden widespread fear the way a whole herd of animals can bolt up and rush down a cliff to their deaths.
In humans, a panic attack can start to happen to a young adult because their mental state is still unstable and they tend to be quite emotional. When not properly addresses panic attacks may progressively get serious as time passes. The feeling of fear is often irrational and unexplainable.
“It just comes!” It can affect many people all at once and turn them into an uncontrolled hysterical mob. Spectators at sports events where emotions may run very high can easily become mob scenes.
Feeling of Panic can Trigger an Attack
Feeling agitated that something bad might happen and being overly worried about it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy with disastrous results. The fear of having a panic attack can, by itself, bring about one.
Panic attacks can be hereditary. Some families are more prone to having panic attacks than others. The children who grow up in a panic-prone environment can themselves grow up to be more prone to having panic disorders than those who come from backgrounds that are more placid.
Panic attacks can be brought about as a direct result of confrontations with phobias or just being in the same situation where a panic attack happened in the past can again trigger the same overwhelming feelings.
Loss of Strong Emotional Attachments Can Bring on Attacks
Panic attacks can be triggered by significant personal loss, like the death of a loved one, the breakup of a romantic relationship, the so-called life transitions. Moving into a new neighborhood or a new school can be quite traumatic for a young person and cause him to have irrational fears about the new situation and thus have a panic attack.
Adults taking certain kinds of medication may also be prone to having panic attacks as a side effect of the medicines they are taking. The fear that one will be unable to cope can also bring about the disorder.
Women tend to be more prone to having a panic disorder than men. This can be due to the fact that women tend to be more emotional than men are. The disorder can likewise be a manifestation of the swings in the hormonal levels of teen-agers and women.
Panic Attacks can have a long Lasting Affect
After having one incident of a panic attack, the individual may continue to feel highly agitated for several hours. In certain cases, the panic episode can cause the person to become excessively worried about having another attack. He may be so consumed with worry and fear, that it no longer becomes possible where one panic attacks end and another one begin. The condition may then deteriorate into a full-blown panic disorder, which may be more difficult to address.
