Panic Attack Disorders –Causes and Cure

For people who suffer from panic attack disorders, everyday life can be filled with anxiety. A panic attack may not be fully understood by people who have not experienced one. If you suffer them, however, you may worry when the next one will strike. There are many causes of panic attacks. Some are specific to certain kinds of situations. For some people, however, they strike apparently at random.

Symptoms of Panic Attacks

A person suffering from a panic attack may experience any of these symptoms:

** Extreme fear or anxiety, out of proportion with whatever is happening in your surroundings (e.g. fear during an earthquake would not mean you have a panic attack disorder, this is just normal fear).

** Difficulty breathing or hyperventilating that is not caused by a physical illness. However, during a panic attack many people feel like they are dying or having a heart attack.

** Feelings of confusion or disorientation.

** Shaking, trembling, sweating, nausea or other physical symptoms, again, not caused by a physical condition.

** Sudden chills or hot flashes.

Causes of Panic Attack Disorders

Some panic attacks are triggered by phobias, such as public speaking, heights, closed-in spaces or any other event or stimulus that one has a phobic reaction to.
While this can be very disturbing, to say the least, at least in this case you can work on treating a specific phobia.

More complicated are panic attacks that occur for no known reason. This may occur in the middle of the night, at work, in a public place, or at any time. Sometimes, with therapy or other treatment, a cause can be determined. At other times, you simply have to accept that you suffer from panic attacks and work on curing this as the condition itself (rather than trying to find a cause).

Ways to Treat Panic Attacks

Treating panic attacks depends on the type that you suffer from. If you have a specific phobia that causes the panic attacks, there are ways to treat this. Therapy, such as desensitization to the phobia can help. So can hypnosis.

If you don’t have a phobia, you can still treat panic attacks with hypnosis. Conventional therapy may or may not cure your panic attacks, but it can help you deal with the anxiety they produce the rest of the time. Relaxation and meditation techniques can also help.

There are herbs that sometimes help with panic attacks. Rescue Remedy, one of the Bach Flower Remedies, is a strangely powerful way to stop a panic attack (strange because conventional science or medicine cannot explain it).

Panic attack disorders are very upsetting for those who suffer from them, as well as their loved ones. You can learn to manage them, however, a better way is to take steps to Stop them. 

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