Health Guidance

Medication, panic attacks, and our health are all intertwined. Medication is often prescribed for almost any ailment that comes to mind. It can be both good and bad in many ways. Panic attacks usually won’t damage our health directly, but can contribute in other ways as well. What do both of these actually have to do with our health?

Let us start with medication. There are situations and circumstances in which it can be deemed necessary, and a life saver. We may have had an accident and need medication to keep infections under control for example. On the flip side, there are also many smaller issues that it is prescribed to regularly that may provide just a minimal benefit. Continue reading ‘Medication, Panic Attacks, and Your Health’ »

Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorder, and other fears and phobias can affect our lives in many ways. Various areas can take a noticeable change such as our health, happiness, our professional life and jobs. What are some of the things we should know about these?

We can start with our health and happiness. Panic attacks typically do not cause damage to our health directly. It can do so in other indirect ways however. Examples could be insomnia, depression, and potentially lowering the immune system. Some of these things directly tie in with our happiness. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorder, and What You Should Know about Them’ »

How often do you hear the phrase “I’m so stressed out!” If you are like me you hear it quite often and from many different people!People feel pressure from many different sources. Those pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often we are ill-equipped to deal with those stressors that trigger anxiety and other feelings that can make us sick. Literally, sick.
The statistics are staggering. One in every eight Americans age 18-54 suffers from an anxiety disorder. This totals over 19 million people! Research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse by men.
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It can get troublesome when we have a kid, panic attack, and ourselves as parents in the mix. Being worried about it is a normal response any parent would have. There are a few things to note about panic attacks and to understand about children however.

Panic attacks are not entirely uncommon in kids at some point or another. This is often overlooked as we may have a tendency to relate the attacks with adults. Millions are affected and it includes children, teenagers, adults, and elders alike. No one is spared, unfortunately. Continue reading ‘A Kid, a Panic Attack, and a Worried Parent’ »

I’d like to discuss anger’s role in the generation and sustenance of panic attacks and anxiety. To give the matter its due, I’ve decided to present the information in two parts. In this edition, part one, we’ll review what anger is in the eyes of the psychoanalysts and cognitivists. And in part two we’ll have a closer look at how anger directly impacts panic and anxiety. Well, are you ready? Let’s get to work.

The French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, a 20th Century pioneer in psychoanalysis, believed aggression is generated as a psychological defense against the threat of something known as fragmentation; the mental and emotional sense of losing control over self-cohesion. Now, fragmentation may present in a feeling of low-grade distress, or it may manifest in all-out panic and terror, for fear of total annihilation. Lacan took the whole matter to infancy where a human is simply a mish-mash of biological functions well beyond internal management. And the only goal one could have is to at least make an effort to pull everything together into some semblance of cohesive identity. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Anger: The Dynamics of Defense’ »

Panic attack stories may catch our attention from time to time. After all, we may be interested in reading about the experiences of other people. Not only this, but in a way we verify that we are not the only ones that suffer from them. There are a few key notes to understand about the stories however.

The story or experience a person may talk about at times may seem absurd. Possibly even silly at times, or directly on target with an experience we may have had ourselves before. The important thing to note here, no matter how absurd or silly the experiences of someone else may sound, that it was real for them. Afterall, think about the experiences we may have had ourselves. Continue reading ‘Panic Attack – Stories and Understanding Them’ »

The panic disorder is a sickness that is affecting mostly people that are in their early or middle maturity. It is distinguished by unprovoked brief episodes of panic. The feelings of intense fear are also experienced during the panic disorder episodes. The fear comes together with different types of physical discomfort as hand numbness, the feeling of smothering as well as the chest pain.

A panic disorder episode always starts very quickly and more often than not without any warning. It usually reaches its peak in about ten minutes. The medical treatment for the panic disorder is effective and has positive results for more than two thirds of the people who experience this kind of affection. Continue reading ‘Learn the Truth About Panic Disorder’ »

A panic attack might be a very frightening experience because it will take you by surprise most of the times. All of a sudden, you feel hit by numerous symptoms like losing control, suffocating or feel like having a heart attack. The panic attack is an experience that may be very traumatizing and you can even feel that you are dying at the very moment it happens.

A panic attack might strike any person at any time and basically everywhere. There is no reason it will hit a person, even though the excessive level of stress might be one of the causes of it. More often than not, a panic attack occurs randomly. Continue reading ‘Controlling A Panic Attack By Beating The Fear Of It’ »

A panic attack might be a very frightening experience because it will take you by surprise most of the times. All of a sudden, you feel hit by numerous symptoms like losing control, suffocating or feel like having a heart attack. The panic attack is an experience that may be very traumatizing and you can even feel that you are dying at the very moment it happens.

A panic attack might strike any person at any time and basically everywhere. There is no reason it will hit a person, even though the excessive level of stress might be one of the causes of it. More often than not, a panic attack occurs randomly. Continue reading ‘Controlling A Panic Attack By Beating The Fear Of It’ »

In my ongoing quest for knowledge pertaining to the contributors to panic attacks and anxiety, as well as treatment strategies and techniques, I came upon some very cool stuff several years ago. It’s called Somatic Experiencing (SE) and it’s the amazing work of Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. This will be the first in a series of two articles. Here we’ll have a look at SE within the context of a contributor to panic and anxiety. The article that follows will approach SE from a treatment perspective. Well, tune-in because I know you’re going to find the information fascinating, hopeful, and helpful.

SE came to life as Dr. Levine observed that though wild animals of prey are under constant threat and siege, they’re rarely traumatized. Well, I never really gave that much thought, but I suppose it’s true. So, just how in the heck do they pull that off? Well, credit is given to an innate regulating mechanism that very efficiently manages and discharges the energy that accumulates in their bodies as a result of self-preservation behaviors. Levine observed that when an animal of prey survives a potentially deadly chase, it actually takes time to physically shake-off unused energy before moving on with the herd. Well, Levine posits we humans are equipped with essentially the same mechanism; however, ours is greatly inhibited by our more advanced cognitive capabilities. Man, how many times does thinking mess things up for us? By the way, isn’t it interesting that we so often use the phrase, “Just shake it off,” when someone takes a relatively minor hit of some kind. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Somatic Experiencing: Part I’ »

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