According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), approximately six million Americans suffer from panic disorders, and women are twice as likely to experience them as men. But coronavirus seems to be causing many people to suffer panic attacks within a short time. To me, although panic disorder is a definitive diagnosis, having panic attacks is not just a problem you have to deal with forever. When it comes to panic attacks, we're all built slightly different.
The purpose of this exercise is to focus and therefore calm the mind during times of panic. It's not uncommon for people who experience panic attacks to be prescribed a sedative such as Klonapin, Xanax or Ativan to be taken if they have an attack. These feelings are normal - it's just the body's alarm system doing its job when it doesn't need to.
While an anxiety attack can range from mild to severe, panic attacks are always severe. An attack may make you take quick, shallow breaths, so get your breathing under control. You may worry about an upcoming social situation, then get anxious about your inevitable anxiety or predicted panic attack.
According to the NHS , panic attack is a ‘condition that happens when the person almost loses his mental control, get extremely afraid, suffers from shortness of breath, and other of the uncontrollable feeling'. Dr Deka revealed that "people keep on buying ideas, notions, perceptions of other people around them and sometimes they also absorb other people's fear and their belief system.
A panic attack comes on suddenly, bringing with it short-lived disabling anxiety, fear or discomfort. This can help you come back to your body and control your breathing. But, we still need a way to handle situation-induced panic attacks (like I did with my agoraphobia - the fear of public places) or more importantly,
techniques to stop panic attacks as they are occurring.
In addition to the above steps, the National Institute for Mental Health recommends meditation - a mindfulness technique - to help manage stress and decrease symptoms. 48 Avoidance behavior is one of the key aspects that prevent people with frequent panic attacks from functioning healthily.