Panic Attack: Signs, Symptoms And How To Prevent It.
25th July 2011 by Depressed No CommentsTo see a person with a panic attack is terrorizing. It can happen to anyone and everyone and getting educated about the signs and symptoms will be really useful and will help you to prevent it.
Panic attack is experienced by nearly 5% of our nation’s population and it’s so agonizing for these people when they go through this attack. This affects all sects of people and specially teenagers because they do not know the methods properly to handle the stress in their life. This can come all of a sudden without an indication and even the patient might not be aware of it. This can immobilize a person for sometime and your body can naturally handle it without medical attention for sometime.
Symptoms can be both physical and psychological which may require doctors help immediately . These symptoms may not remain for along time. Given below are some of these symptoms.
• Fear of Death — The person who is going through a panic attack may even feel that he is going to come to the end of his life or become mad. But his disorder however has no connection with his fear.
• Palpitations –Because of his untold fear his hart begins to thump faster than normal.
• Shortness of Breath. Chest discomfort happens because of this which will result in hyperventilation.
• Trembling and shaking - this is caused by the terror and at times, it can even come to the point where the sufferer would be almost paralyzed.Shiver and Tremble –This is because of the fear factor in the patient which may paralyze the patient.
• Nausea. – This happens because you experience an uneasy feeling in the stomach. This may make the person experience giddiness and later he faints
• Depersonalization –this is sometimes the body’s defense mechanism when it is caught in incidents where they feel they cannot control the situation
• Paresthesis –you body loses its sensation and becomes numb.
• Chills or hot flashes –any of these two may also be experienced by the sufferer. The chills would only aggravate the trembling causing the shaking to be uncontrollable.
Listed above are some of the signs that the patient experiences. These attacks can immobilize a person and thus the patient loses the ability to communicate to others about his experience. Another kind of panic attack is called noctumal panic attack where a patient has an attack when he is asleep during night. These patients develop breathing problems and may wake up all of a sudden and experience fear and shock. The duration of the shock is for more than 10 minutes and the patients really it very difficult to get over the trauma caused by these attacks.
Given here are some precautions that one can take to protect yourself from panic attacks
• Medicine and some food and beverage variety like coffee tea and alcohol should be avoided to minimize the occurrence of attack.
• Pratice breathing exercises and this will relieve you and it is one of the bet way to manage stress. Yoga and aerobic also helps a lot to stop further panic attacks.
• Have a positive outlook in life and share all your problems with a person in whom you can trust and this will minimize the intensity of your worry and make you feel normal and usual.
• When having an attack try out some relieving methods by relax your arm s and muscles. Do some breathing exercises and this will slow down and the attack will be stopped. Then inform everybody that you are not a mad person and that you can breathe and talk and you won’t die.
If the person who had an attack has other medical problem then he should not do any exercise because this may lead to a heat attack and further complicate things and endanger his life.
Article by Beth Kaminski of AnxietyDisorderCure. For more information on anxiety disorders, visit her site today.
