How To Deal with Fear Attacks

A great many of us are familiar with fear and stress. These are normal situations in our lives and once we pass these troubles we tend to forget about them. Unfortunately there are people who live with fear and panic their whole lives. For these people panic does not mean a reaction to a normal uncomfortable situation, instead it means wondering when you will be terrified and helpless next. This is what having panic disorder can do to you.

Fear disorder is a very bad condition. The sentiments arising from this disorder are irrational to the situation. They have a tendency to seem in response to stressful gatherings in our lives. These may be gatherings like getting married, having your first child, even switching your job. Fear disorders generally start from panic attacks. These can sometimes arise during teenage years to early adulthood.

Fear attacks and their symptoms are connected with panic disorder. The symptoms can be from a fast beating heart, dizziness, nausea, paralyzing terror, smothering sensations to a panic of death. Sometimes panic disorder can lead to various phobias, substance abuse, medical complications and in severe cases, suicide.

The sufferer of panic disorder will live in constant and persistent panic of future panic attacks reoccurring. The effect of living with panic disorder is that you tend to restrict your life in certain areas so that you avoid triggering another panic attack. While we may believe that this behavior is strange, for the panic disorder individual this sort of lifestyle tends to be a nightmare.

The effects of panic disorder ranges from mild to being socially impaired to the more severe and weakening condition of agoraphobia, where you are housebound for a big part of your life as you wish to avoid another panic attack. With panic disorder, phobias are usually the result. Here phobias do not start with regards to specific objects or gatherings in one's life. Instead going through a panic attack in different places or situations will cause the phobia to start itself.

People who may have had four or more repeated panic attacks and who think that they might have another similar bout of pure mind numbing panic should have a visit with a psychiatrist who is an specialist in anxiety and panic disorders. This is very important because the longer your condition is left untreated, the more the quality of your life will degrade.

Many therapists concur that the best ways to treat panic disorder is with cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and in other cases a combination of these two along with prescription medication. These are all good methods to control your panic disorder, however these will remain only means and not possible cures if you do not take the initiative in seeing a trained psychiatrist as well as finishing the course of treatment.