How do you know if your panic attacks are OCD related or Panic Disorder related?
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at
9:35 pm
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If you have panic attacks, you have panic disorder. You may also have ocd, but panic attacks only come with panic disorder.
If you had OCD..you would find yourself doing little rituals..and maybe you would have a panic attack if you didn’t do a particular ritual the right way..
But if you find yourself having a panic attack out of the blue like I do..
(sitting down watching t.v.: heart starts beating fast, shortness of breath) then 9 times out of 10..you’re just suffering from a panic disorder..
OCD doesn’t cause panic attacks!
I have OCD, depression, panic attacks and hyperventilation syndrome. I’m pretty sure they are all related.
OCD also has some persistence, like obsessive thoughts and actions. Generalized panic with seemingly no external cause would be a panic disorder.
OCD wouldn’t cause panic attacks!
co-morbidity is where for example you could have depression with anxiety, basically a dual diagnosis of a mental health disorder. panic disorder and OCD are different ‘types’ of mental helath problem. thougth the 2 freqeuntly go together!
how would you tell if they were panic related or not? if you started to have your panic attack due to being triggered by something in the environment that was associated with the OCD, for example due to contamination! panic disorderered attacks are generally spontaneous and do not involve the former.