Panic Attack Self Help


by Ryan McMillan - Date: 2007-01-25 - Word Count: 353 Share This!

A panic attack is a time of powerful, often momentarily disabling, sense of extreme fear or mental distress, typically of rapid beginning. Although it is often a purely horrifying sensation to the victim, panic attacks are actually an evolutionary body reaction often known as the fight-or-flight response happening out of circumstance.

Symptoms may comprise trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain (or chest tightness), sweating, nausea, dizziness (or slight vertigo), hyperventilation, paresthesias (tingling sensations), vomiting, and sensations of choking or smothering. During a panic attack, the body characteristically releases great amounts of adrenaline into the bloodstream.

Many first time victims of a panic attack think they are dying or going insane. Many say panic attacks are among the most terrifying experiences of their lives. Frequent and apparently motiveless panic attacks may be a signal of panic disorder, but panic attacks are linked with additional anxiety disorders as well. For instance, people who suffer from phobias may experience panic attacks upon contact to certain triggers. People with panic disorder often can be treated with treatment and/or anti-anxiety/depression drugs.

Recreational drugs have also been known to provoke panic attacks in certain people. Most victims of panic attacks story a terror of dying, "going mad", having a heart attack, fainting or losing control of emotions or actions. A panic attack typically lasts ten minutes.

People with phobias will often experience panic attacks as a direct product of exposure to their trigger. These panic attacks are frequently short-lived and self-limiting, as they will subside once the trigger is no longer present.

Here are some things to help you out if you are about to have a Panic Attack.

1. Tell Yourself to Slow Down.

2. Light a Candle.

3. Go Outside or look out a Window.

4. Keep a notebook and document your panic attacks, then review them.

5. Call a crisis line and tell them you are having a panic attack. Saying it out loud to a person I do not know has been known to help.. You can thank them and hang up at anytime.

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