Most people have experienced symptoms of panic attacks at least once in their lifetime, but most of them succeed in somehow getting over, so they do not repeat over time, or they do not repetate and limit us in everyday life for a long time.
But it's often very unpleasant episodes, which can take up to ten minutes, with numerous often frightening symptoms - from difficulty breathing and feelings of being drowsy, muscle tension and pain in the body that often leads to a doctor, then a strong heartbeat and feeling that our life is endangered, that is, we are pre-infected.
A person who experiences panic attacks can be disoriented, or lost in time and space, and have the feeling that he will crawl, fainting, or die on the spot.
- Panic attack is a state of extreme fear, the so-called. mortal fear, as if it was a really deadly danger. The word comes from the name Pan (or satire) which is a Greek mythical forest creature, which is extremely sexually abnormal, so the panic would be 'fearful nymphs when they saw Pan that ran out of the woods from them'. Anxiety is the alert state that it prepares for action, and the panic is baffling, the inability to control, acting only by automatism. For example, we can see the anxiety in the cat when it is cautiously sniffed and immediately reacts to each chanting, while the panic would be when we see it climb up to the top of the tree or bumps in the instant, tease teeth and is ready to fight.
Previously, panic was thought to be only an extreme state of anxiety, but these are two different forms of fear that have a different source in brain functions that can be beautifully recorded, added.
Signal anxiety is not the same as a panic, in which fear overwhelms and can not be controlled. Panic attacks are related to the feelings of helplessness that a young man feels when there is no mother as an external source of security. During the first two years of life, the mother and the child are one psychological being, the child relies on the mother to regulate his needs and emotions, and a sudden and premature separation from the mother, while this process is not completed, is an extraordinary stress that can remain recorded as a trauma. The panic is like seeing a bird flying out of the nest, clutching 'in panic' to the mother, and if no one responds, then it stops dormant, our interviewee explains, and continues:
It has long been observed that the conditions of depression and panic attacks are linked, but now it is possible to investigate what are the brain systems in the interplay. We all felt in the earliest development a separation that frustrated us, but we also had to accept the final separation from the mother, of course at different intensities, but we all have the potential for both panic attacks and depressive conditions. This is what is written in the so-called. implicit, procedural, emotional memory in our unconscious.
Under certain conditions there will be symptoms, we all have a 'shooting point', but some come very quickly and easily, and some are not so easy or quick. These are more stable personality structures and the more labile, 'more neurotic', emotionally unstable, our interlocutor points out. The fear of losing an emotionally important person who helps to regulate emotions and grief over the permanent loss of such a person are the fundamental fear of mammals from separation, separation fear, but also depression, as a pathological form of mourning for a lost object, adds.
Relaxation and deep breathing, and the support of a person who knows how to calm down, help a lot.
Many uncomfortable body symptoms in anxiety or panic are associated with shortening of breathing in a state of heightened excitement, thereby reducing the level of oxygen in the blood so that relaxation and deep and slow breathing certainly help with panic attacks. Like the support of another person, for example. Namely, if someone in the surroundings has remained calm and does not panic, it actually plays the "role of the mother" fobicar who at the moment emotional functions as a child. The child fluttered, her mother did not, calm her child with her calmness.
Top tips for overcoming panic attacks:
-Breathing
Try to breathe deeply and slowly, for example by counting up to four in each breath and exhale. You can also breathe in a paper bag: Take a deep breath and put the paper bag over your nose and mouth and start breathe in it, counting.
-The power of 'positive'
Calm yourself with the claim that this is a normal reaction of your body that will pass quickly. Repeat that nothing bad will happen.
-Movement
Do not sit or lie down, you'd rather walk. A panic attack is a mobilizing state of the body that is preparing to fight or escape, and it also involves a surge of energy to be released.
-Break the situation
Wash your face with cold water and do something that will break the situation: Turn on the radio or TV, sing loudly listening to the radio, dance. Or look for something funny on the Internet and laugh out loud.
-Counting
Count backwards, from a hundred to zero, as fast as you can and concentrate on counting all the time, or find a similar technique that will take you for a few minutes until the attack passes.