Panic Attack Treatment

Often times people think they are having a panic attack, so the term has become commonplace and quite overused. Real panic attacks have a very specific set of symptoms. When someone actually has a panic attack, you may at first feel as though it might be something a bit more serious.

Panic Attacks can cause you to feel that something is very wrong. You may think you have a medical problem as you may experience all or many symptoms like shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, pressure in the chest, and dizziness. It’s most common in a young person under stress, and even more common in women. You may even feel like you are having a heart attack because many of the symptoms are similar, but after ruling out a cardiac problem, it often turns out to be panic disorder.

While being under stress may trigger a panic attack, certain people are more predisposed to panic than others. It runs in families, and people with panic attacks often have a close relative with some sort of anxiety-related problem.

It can be a result of being traumatized, or a result of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. However, some people can be severely stressed and never get panic attacks, making it clear that some people are more biologically vulnerable to anxiety than others.

Sweating, shakiness, dizziness, feeling your heart pounding, getting nauseous, thoughts that you are going crazy or dying—these are all symptoms of a panic attack.

If you have had more than one panic attack in between attacks, you are worrying about having another one. Sometimes the fear and resulting debilitation is worse when anticipating the attack than when one actually occurs.

 

Breathe into a paper bag. Part of what brings on symptoms is breathing in and out too quickly which causes a high level of carbon dioxide to be present in your body, therefore resulting in tingly, sweating, flushing sensations. If you can slow down and breathe into a bag, you can help control the symptoms.