Examples of panic in the following topics:
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- A panic attack is a sudden period of intense anxiety; if these attacks occur often, they may indicate a panic disorder.
- People with panic disorder may become so afraid of having panic attacks that they experience what are known as anticipatory attacks—essentially panicking about potential panic attacks and entering a cycle of living in fear of fear.
- In order to be diagnosed with panic disorder, a person must experience unexpected, recurrent panic attacks.
- While the previous version of the DSM defined panic disorder as occurring either with or without agoraphobia, the new DSM-5 lists panic disorder and agoraphobia as two distinct disorders.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the psychotherapeutic treatment of choice for panic disorder; several studies show that 85 to 90 percent of panic-disorder patients treated with CBT recover completely from their panic attacks within 12 weeks.
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- "Anxiety disorder" refers to any of a number of specific disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, phobia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and social anxiety disorder.
- Caffeine, alcohol, and benzodiazepine dependence can worsen or cause anxiety and panic attacks.
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- Panic attacks can also occur under intense fear and discomfort.
- Indeed, one study reported that 92% of a sample of adults with social anxiety disorder reported a history of severe teasing in childhood, compared to only 35% of a sample of adults with panic disorder (McCabe, Antony, Summerfeldt, Liss, & Swinson, 2003).
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- Antidepressants are used to treat major and bipolar depression, panic attacks, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Antidepressants are used to treat depression, panic attacks, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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- When confronted with the object of their phobia, a person will generally enter a state of panic and experience a wide variety of physical symptoms, such as nausea, increased heartbeat, dizziness, and sweaty palms.
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- Problems resulting from stress include decline in physical health or mental health, a sense of being overwhelmed, feelings of anxiety, overall irritability, insecurity, nervousness, social withdrawal, loss of appetite, depression, panic attacks, exhaustion, high or low blood pressure, skin eruptions or rashes, insomnia, lack of sexual desire (sexual dysfunction), migraine, gastrointestinal difficulties (constipation or diarrhea), heart problems, and menstrual symptoms.
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- Studies have shown that rumination and
worry contribute to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and that
meditation-based interventions are effective in the reduction of worry, even in
such extreme cases as panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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- For these people, stressful situations create higher amounts of panic, phobia, and disorder than for those with high social support.
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- Ordinary anxiousness can cause erectile dysfunction without psychiatric problems, but clinically diagnosable disorders such as panic disorder commonly cause avoidance of intercourse and premature ejaculation.