Anxiety Attack Treatment - Soothing the Strung Nerves
The world today is a victim of frequent and serious panic attack and anxiety ailments.
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To get down to basics, panic attacks are actually an over-emphasized version of the human body's immune mechanism. Whenever our body senses an emergency, a hormone called adrenaline or epinephrine is released which prepares us either for 'fight' or 'flight' method of dealing with the emergency. The hormone causes increased heart beat, blood pressure, blood glucose level and mental astuteness - but several other disturbing symptoms include sweating, tingling or chilling sensations, hot flushes, dizziness, nausea, stomach ache and trembling limbs.
Patients of panic attack experience increase in adrenaline levels without any proportionate cause. In other words, their body gears up to deal with an invisible problem. Keeping in mind how this unasked for activity enervates the body makes it important to treat panic attacks.9922080889 pingle waters
Therapy of panic attack has two forms - short term and long term.
Long-term treatment is generally carried out with the aim of curing the root cause of the disorder, and is as such psychological in nature. On the other hand, short-term treatment is mostly used for symptomatic treatments - panic attacks are sudden and unprovoked and immediate medication can be necessary to save the patient's life.
The psychological methods used to treat panic attacks are:
* Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy - for a patient suffering from panic attack, the major therapy suggested by the psychiatrist is this. It is often shortened as CBT and its strength is that it strengthens the mind of the patient - the very victim of the disorder. The patient is asked to recognize his thought flow and to analyse it deeply. His fears and illogical thoughts are prevented from coming to the helm. He is also trained to control his body's reactions to his panic attack. The patient must be well-stocked with will power, yes, but once he has begin with CBT, there is no stopping him from getting well again.
* Exposure Therapy - sometimes, panic attacks are caused by the sight of an object which is a fear factor for the patient. For instance, a hydrophobic is likely to get into paroxysms of fear at the sight of a sea. For such patients, a gradual exposure therapy is recommended so that he masters his fear of any given thing once and for all. Under the guidance of a trained clinician, an exposure programme is set up wherein a hierarchy of the fear factor's manifestation is created in the ascending order. For instance, taking the example of fear of water, the exposure programme shall consist of a hierarchy starting from a glass of water and ending at the sea. The patient is now made to come face-to-face with his fear under the encouraging eye of the therapist. The patient's tolerance of the various intensity levels of the fear factors are expected to increase with time, until finally the phobia is controlled a hundred percent. The therapy is no doubt unpleasant and requires a great deal of bravado on the patient's side.
* Hypnotic Therapy - hypnosis has shown a so-so result on patients. A trained therapist sends the patient into a deep sleep. At this moment, the patient's mind is flexible and any suggestions made to him would make an impression on him. The therapist may then use this moment to suggest to the patient how to impregnate his mind against panic attacks.
* Coping Statements - like 'I shall not panic' or 'My fears are absurd' when chanted with full belief in them during the onset of an attack is likely to help curb the intensity of the bout.
* Meditation and Breathing exercises - these help in soothing the patient's over-strung mind by pacifying his thoughts.
Anxiety attack treatment is also brought about by the usage of medication. The major class of drugs involved here are:
* Benzodiazepines - alprazolam, clonzepam, diazepam
* Buspirone
* Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors - paroxetine, sertraline, fluvoxamine
* Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors - Venlafaxine, Tramadol
* Tricyclic Antidepressants - Amitriptyline, Trimipramine
