Panic Disorder: Something terrible is going to happen!

Have you ever felt, something terrible is going to happen, extreme dread, as if you are being attacked by some worries, you become anxious etc, and if these are persistent without any actual cause then you are experiencing panic disorder. This may be even happening to someone you know.

Panic disorder:

Panic order is anxiety disorder, of psychological disorder, which characterized by panic attacks which are unpredictable, which could be severe but it’s a fight and flight response which lasts for brief time. This psychological phenomenon, it is an onset of sudden experience of anxiety which at times is often unrelated to any objective events. These symptoms are accompanied by paresthesia, sweating, tachycardia and flushing.

Panic disorder is known to start in young adulthood, though it can appear in any age, it can start at age in childhood and even in elderly age. Women are known to be twice as prone to panic disorder then man.

Basically panic disorder causes occurrences of irrational fear episodes and panic which are called panic attacks. Person faces mental symptoms, of terror, fear and panicky. Panic attacks cause physical symptoms like racing heartbeat, pounding heartbeat, difficulty in breathing, choking feeling, nausea, chest pain, rapid pulse etc.

The symptoms are so severe at times, that when first time it happens to the individual he may think he is having a heart attack and some think it as they are dieing. Some people have been known to be admitted in hospital emergency for diagnosis. There is so much feeling of apprehension without any presence of danger in actual form.

Thereafter there is a worry of having another panic attack, and person is consumed with worries and tensions of having another attack that person develops behavioral changes in himself hoping that this will avoid another attack. This could even lead to development of another complication that is agoraphobia. Agoraphobia, is irrelevant anxiety, as person fears that he shall loose control in public, and fears that he might get stuck in situations from where escaping would get difficult, he may feel embarrassed. Also he is worried about being in place where, no one to help might happen if there is a panic attack that time.

Panic disorder is known to disrupt the routine life and even changing the personality and individual as a whole, he will seem to be different from what you knew about him.

Learning about the panic disorder is one of the first step taken towards recovery and it will help you to support friend and loved ones who are suffering from panic disorder.