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What is the Connection Between Panic and Agoraphobia

Posted by on December 29, 2009 No comments

Agoraphobia is defined as fear of the market place. Actually this nervous illness makes people unable toAlone at Home go anywhere outside the home. It is also said to be a phobia of leaving the home.  It is true some cases of agoraphobia keep patients locked up in their homes, other less severe cases cause them to be afraid to venture out to a select few.
 
 Panic attacks are the nourishment agoraphobia lives on. Without panic, this nervous illness cannot sustain itself. So, it can be said agoraphobia is a symptom of panic attack disorder and panic attack disorder is a symptom of anxiety.  Agoraphobia, panic and anxiety are of course, all closely related.  Given enough time, anxiety causesc panic.  Given more time panic may cause agoraphobia. 
 
It is important to note, “fear of the marketplace” is really panic of the marketplace. The radical decision to stay inside one’s home day in and day out is motivated by the patient’s want to avoid panic attack. 

There is no way to look at a case of agoraphobia without seeing anxiety panic disorder.  Agoraphobia is fed by panic. Without panic attacks, it will starve. Agoraphobia will not be cured when panic disorder is present.

The first panic attack is always a surprise and a mystery. Agoraphobia is born when the sufferer of a panic attack associates its horror with the place where it occurred.

Unfortunately, a sufferer of anxiety is liable to have a panic attack anywhere and so, if the panic attack was anything other than just a rare isolated incident, the patient will have another one in a another place and he will then add this place do those he will no longer visit.

In reality, it is not always places the panic attack sufferer associates with his panic attacks. It sometimes is certain events he will blame the attack on.   It doesn’t really matter if it is events or places he is tying to avoid because the way to avoid either one of these things is to refuse to go out of the home.

The symptoms of panic attack are very harrowing to the person having them. These symptoms are feelings that mock very serious events like heart attacks and strokes. It is only normal to try to stave off such feelings. Certainly, if avoiding places and events would do it, it would seem reasonable to stay away from them!

The bottom line is curing agoraphobia entails the sufferer visiting those places where he suffered panic attacks. The cure to panic attacks entails the sufferer of them actually inviting these attacks to occur without trying to avoid them in any way shape or form. Panic attacks thrive on fear and when we decide we will not fear them, they will cease to exist. Then, with panic no longer present in one’s life, agoraphobia’ demise will shortly thereafter follow.

 

 

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what is going on biologically in your brain when you are having a panic or anxiety attack?

Posted by on December 18, 2009 2 comments

I am just curious. Not what you feel but what is going on in your brain biologically that is causing these panic attack and anxiety? Like what goes on in the brain with your tissue and your chemicals in the brain that makes you so anxious? Also what can regulate these chemicals to make you not anxious? Besides medication. I am just wondering.

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Symptom of Anxiety

Posted by on December 10, 2009 No comments

There are a wide variety of symptoms of panic.  One of the reasons panic’s symptoms vary is because there are extreme differences in the potential severity of anxiety.  Anxiety can be a mild nervousness, a raging panic attack or many different degrees of anxiety in between these two extremes.  Besides this fact, there are many different types of anxieties.  Some of these are:

  • Performance Anxiety – A condition where a person is unable to make speeches or cannot function under pressure while participating in a participation sport.
  • Test Anxiety – A similar condition where a person fails tests in school, even though he or she is adequately familiar with the content of the test.
  • Separation Anxiety – When a person, often a child cannot stand to be left alone.
  • Anxiety or Panic Disorder – Where a person experiences spell of intense panic when there is no external reason to be in a state of panic.

Though these conditions seem to run the gamut of a wide variety of situations, often times self-helpReadeing for Self Help treatments can be very beneficial and maybe even sufficient to start to bring about a cure to each one. A couple of self help treatments that can be very beneficial to anxiety and panic sufferers are reading an excellent psychology book, such as “Psycho-Cybernetics or partaking in progressive relaxation.  First however, we must make this disclaimer:

Panic attacks will sometimes make the sufferer feel as if he or she is experiencing a heart attack or a stroke. It is important a person suffering from this condition gets a clean bill of health from a doctor before assuming the panic has brought on these common mock heart attack or stroke symptoms. Once the patient’s health is no longer in question, he or she should no longer pay any attention to these false symptoms while under the influence of the adrenaline brought on by the panic attack.

Though ignoring anxiety’s symptoms is difficult when one’s nerves are sensitized, doing so is key to putting an end to panic attacks.  One technique many people have used to start down the road to desensitizing their nerves is progressive relaxation.

There are three stages to progressive relaxation exercises. First, the anxiety sufferer lies down or relaxes in an easy chair. Once comfortable, the patient instructs the major body parts to relax. This is accomplished by instructing the body starting at the bottom and moving to the top. In other words, “feet relax, legs relax, lower legs and buttocks relax,” etc. This is continued right up to the head and in this way some degree of relaxation is accomplished.

In the second stage, the patient becomes aware of the breathing, which should be slower than normal but comfortable. He or she should pay no attention to any outside noises but only tune into this slow, comfortable breathing.

After a few minutes, the patient should think of some relaxing time or scene he or she has experienced some time in the past, or if no peaceful scene from the past can be thought of, the patient should make one up. The key is to use the imagination and the breathing to be drawn into a peaceful state of mind.

Finally, the patient should imagine him or herself acting in a way that would be his or her ideal. For instance, the test anxiety sufferer should imagine being calm and confident while taking a test. The panic sufferer should imagine dismissing any hint of panic and continuing on through the day undisturbed.

While this may seem too simple to give any real results, I used this method when I suffered frequent severe panic attacks and it was what got me to turn the corner and head toward complete recovery. So, I know it works, but there is one more key to a successful recovery.

An anxiety sufferer needs to recognize the fact he or she is suffering from anxiety disorder and needs to acknowledge it will only leave after the body’s overly sensitized adrenaline system becomes healed. This can only happen on its own timetable and will only happen after the patient realizes that no amount of fighting the condition or trying to run away from it will help. However, acceptance together with time will heal panic attack anxiety.

The key is to use relaxation and recall relaxed feelings throughout the day. Then, live through anxieties symptoms, paying them as little attention as possible. A complete recovery will come soon after this acceptance takes hold.

Anxiety Causes

Posted by on December 6, 2009 1 comment

Anxiety causes are vast and numerous.  More so even than the amounts of anxieties that plague our society today.  To name a few different types of anxieties, there are:

  • Social anxiety
  • Test anxiety
  • Separation anxiety
  • Panic anxiety
  • Performance anxiety
  • and many subtle types of anxiety that fall into the category of “Anxiety Disorder.”

Anxiety, in itself is very common and though it is wise to control it, anxiety really doesn’t amount to much until it crosses over into the realm we term anxiety disorder.  Anxiety disorder is anxiety in doses that tend to control the lives of those who are inflicted by it.  In fact, the main difference between ordinary anxiety and anxiety disorder isPanic Attack whether or not it actually controls what the sufferer does. 

For instance, does he cancel appointments because of anxiety?  Does the sufferer change or cancel travel plans?  Does he call in sick often because of his inability to to face the drive to work or his apprehension to talk a client or face the boss?  These things may frazzle the nerves of a sufferer of ordinary anxiety, but they will entirely overwhelm the sufferer of anxiety disorder.

Another symptom of anxiety disorder is panic.  Mot all, but most sufferers of anxiety disorder also have frequent, or at least occasional panic attacks and this is for a good reason.  Anxiety disorder and panic attacks are born of the fight or flight syndrome.  In other words, the more one tries to run away from, or fight off anxiety, the deeper and more overwhelming the anxiety will be.

One who has he ability to totally accept his anxiety will never suffer a panic attack because when fear is absent from anxiety, this anxiety will be unable to build into panic.  It is when the sufferer tries to escape the weird and horrific feelings anxiety brings on that anxiety receives the fuel it needs to build into strong anxiety disorder and panic.  Yes, fear is panic’s fuel, without it panic wanes.

Learning how to control fear while under the duress of anxiety is something that needs to be learned but it is a very learn-able trick as many have been cured from anxiety disorder and panic attacks.   

 

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