Article by Carolyn Miller

Most of us are well aware of the natural occurrences of panic attacks, in fact panic attacks are feared by a lot of people all over the world. They are in the notion that they have incurred a severe disease that cannot be cured. However, there is another kind of panic attacks that most people do not want to have. Some people would rather have the usual panic attack instead of this other kind of panic attack. This other form of panic attack is the panic attack while sleeping, sleeping panic attacks are often rare to happen.

However, sleeping panic attacks is not that different with the normal panic attacks that happen when a person is awake. We know how the normal panic attacks can be very distressing, but suffering from sleeping panic attacks can be even more. At times, the person who is experiencing panic attacks does not usually know what has happened while they expedited the attack.

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Article by Virgil Morris

Our bodies are “hard wired? to react to danger in what is referred to as the ?fight or flight? response. When these responses are called into action when there is no actual danger it is called Panic Syndrome or panic attack.

The Symptoms of Panic Syndrome

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Article by Jeremy Landa

Panic disorder is a condition in which the body and the mind seem to loose temporary control. Conditions such as a racing heart, palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, fast pulse rate, dizziness and sometimes feeling nausea’s are common symptoms. In order to learn how to control panic attacks it’s important to first know the symptoms that you experience. It is in this way you will be able to eventually understand the root cause of the panic attacks in the first place to overcome them entirely. Many people have started to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT) to solve their panic and anxiety problems. So far, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been one of the most successful forms of treatment for people undergoing high anxiety or panic attack problems. CBT has proven to be one of the best approaches to take since it deals 100% with natural methods to curing panic attacks. By using simple understandings, a different perspective of the situation, and well grounded techniques to overcoming and learning how to control panic attacks, individuals are able to see results just days into therapy. Patients are helped by being walked through the recovery process and are shown through their thinking process what exactly is causing their problems. They are helped to understand how their thinking process is creating their panic attacks and vice versa. And by changing their state of mind patients can learn how to control panic attacks and prevent them from starting in the first place. CBT has two parts. Firstly identifying and changing the distorted thinking pattern of the patient which leads to the panic attack, and secondly desensitizing through the repeated exposure to the situation which is feared.With CBT you are shown how panic attacks are a product of your anxiety, fear and thinking. It is nothing but your bodily sensation of the anxiety. The cognitive approach is one such natural treatment to overcome panic attack which does not result in any side effects. You are shown how to control panic attacks by controlling your fear. And it is the very fear of having another panic attacks that causes us to have more in the future. For example if a patient has a strong phobia for traveling in an elevator then every time that patient has to get into the elevator, the fear slowly starts to take over and a panic attack may eventually erupt. By dwelling on that same fear, you set yourself up to continue to repeat that same fear every time you have to use the elevator. Greater emphasis is placed on the fear of the elevator that it completely overrides our rational state of mind and prevents our mind from remaining calm. The cognitive approach will teach you how to recognize and free yourself from your fear – whatever it may be. With traditional medication you may be able to temporary solve the problem, but after sometime it will eventually return. Comparing the traditional method to CBT, patients generally don’t relapse and retain what they learn through therapy so panic attacks are never a problem again. In my personal opinion, the Panic Away program, developed by Barry Joe McDonaugh, is the best form of Self-Help CBT that is currently available. This self-help program is 100% natural, doesn not require any medicines or doctors and is already responsible for successfully recoving over 40,000 patients worldwide. This has been the definite answer for thousands of people and it could be for you too. I’ve just been using it for a few weeks and am already starting to see great results so make sure to check out Panic Away right away.

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Article by Richard Keir

Admittedly it’s a lot easier to write and read about anxiety panic attacks than it is to actually have them. Panic disorder is usually diagnosed if you experience recurring severe anxiety panic attacks. One, or even a few, panic attacks can happen to nearly anyone under the right – or perhaps the wrong, conditions, but a full-blown panic disorder is a cyclical attack on your life, not a single event.

Panic attacks consist of overwhelming feelings of terror seemingly arising from nowhere. They come with no warning, no obvious threat and no clear reason. Essentially, a huge overdose of the fight or flight response, a panic attack can feel if you’re having a heart attack or about to die. You could have several of these kinds of symptoms:=> Feeling dizzy or as if you’re going to pass out=> Tachycardia or accelerated heart beat=> Peripheral alterations in sensation such as numbness in your fingers=> Chest pains=> A sense of loss of control of yourself=> Difficulty with breathing=> Sudden sweating or feeling cold=> And of course, that feeling of extreme fear

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Article by James Broddy

It would be easy to think that post traumatic stress was a recent condition but this would be far from the truth. It is fair to say that the condition has come to prominence in recent years and a greater number of people are being afflicted by it is but there is a long history of the condition, even if it was known by different names. There are many physicians who have traced the condition back to the time of the First World War with many of the soldiers who fought in the war showing the same ailments and symptoms that people currently diagnosed with post traumatic stress.

This war featured a huge amount of young soldiers, in all sides of the conflict, and there was an acceptance that many of the soldiers were too young to comprehend or take in what was happening around them. Being stuck in the trenches during this war was a harrowing ordeal for many involved and it is no wonder that terms like shell shock were being unveiled to justify the effects on many of the people involved.

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Article by Tony Trussol

If you know someone that has a mental illness, you are aware that the person who suffers from it is not the only one that is affected by it. Sure their lives are disrupted, but the people who surround that person are affected by it as well, especially their immediate friends and family. Basically, it is tough for everyone involved and the same holds true for a person who suffers from post traumatic stress because their lives are thrown into disarray along with everyone around them.

Post traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety issue that arises in a person after they have gone through some kind of traumatizing ordeal, hence the name. Examples of these types of events include being involved in combat, experiencing some kind of sexual trauma or possibly being robbed out on the street, and a person might have been involved in a vehicle accident or experienced a broken home life.

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Question by ellagirl: How common is it for someone from an alcoholic family to develop panic disorder?
How common is it for someone from a family with alcoholism to develop an anxiety disorder, such as panic disorder or social phobia? Is there a direct correlation?

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