What is a panic attack? How should it be controlled?

Patients with panic attacks often go to the neurology department or clinical psychology department for consultation, and the patients will have a very frightened feeling, and even a sense of impending death, and will have clinical symptoms such as constant shaking of the whole body, sweating, and palpitation.

For panic attacks, to exclude organic diseases, benzodiazepines are used to have obvious sedative effects, as well as panic effects, and the effect is relatively fast. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors are also usually used**, which can prevent panic attacks and can be used on the advice of a doctor.

Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Control your emotions, don't think about it, and you can also use the method of counting to divert your attention.

Panic attacks may be some of your psychological effects, in a word, once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, you need to slowly change your mentality.

The best adjustment is to adjust your mindset, take a deep breath to relax, and don't get nervous and cranky.

Don't have psychological pressure to avoid triggering. During the attack, some sedative drugs can be taken orally, such as Valium Carridine or Clonazepam.

What is a panic attack?

Panic attacks are a form of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of intense panic attacks, accompanied by frequent feelings of death or panic, and severe autonomic symptoms. Some of the clinical manifestations are:

1.Panic attacks.

Typically, people are engaged in daily activities, such as reading, eating, walking, having a meeting, or doing household chores, when they suddenly experience a strong sense of fear, as if they are about to die. This tension is unbearable for the patient. At the same time, the patient feels palpitations, as if the heart is about to jump out; chest tightness, a feeling of pressure in the anterior chest area; Or difficulty breathing, the throat is blocked, as if it can't breathe, and it is about to suffocate to death.

As a result, patients may scream, cry for help, run outside, hug their heads, and some may have autonomic symptoms such as hyperventilation, dizziness, facial flushing, excessive sweating, unsteady gait, tremor, numbness of hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort, and motor restlessness. This kind of seizure, generally 5-20 minutes, a short time, can be relieved on its own, after the patient feels that everything is normal, but soon there may be suddenly**.

2.Premonition of anxiety.

Most patients experience anxiety during the intervals between recurrent panic attacks, often fearing recurrence, and may also have symptoms of autonomic hyperactivity.