Counselling for Panic Disorder in IN FAREHAM & SOUTHAMPTON
Panic Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by re-occurring unexpected panic attacks. Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpations, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, numbness, or a feeling that something bad is going to happen.
You may feel some or most of these symptoms: –
- Pounding or fast heartbeat
- Trembling or shaking
- Shortness of breath or a feeling of being smothered
- A choking feeling
- Chest pain
- Nausea or stomach pains
- Feeling dizzy or faint
- Chills or hot flushes
- Numbness or tingling in the body
- Feeling unreal or detached
- A fear of losing control or going crazy
- A fear of dying
An attack usually passes in 5-10 minutes, but it can linger for hours. It can feel like you’re having a heart attack or a stroke. So, people with panic attacks often wind up in the emergency room for evaluation.
It has been known to run in families, but the evidence does not show how much of that is because of your genes or the environment you grew up in.
Events that can bring on a Panic Attack
Everyone can feel nervous in a social setting from time to time, but people with social anxiety are highly self-conscious around others and may experience an intense fear of being judged, this can result in physical symptoms like sweating, blushing, and nausea.
They worry that they may embarrass themselves or offend others, and this may lead to them feeling rejected, but their fear or anxiety is much bigger than any actual threat of this happening.
Any social situation can become extremely stressful. People with social anxiety are constantly worried that they’ll create a negative impact on others around them, and fear of being disliked. The thought of their own anxiety, prior to an event can increase the levels of more anxiety. This can impact on them developing personal relationships and social interactions in the workplace, often leaving them feeling isolated.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) isn’t the same thing as occasionally feeling anxious. Everyone has instances of extreme anxiety from time to time, GAD interferes with your day-to-day life.
People with GAD experience severe, irrational concern about specific triggers. the anxiety often comes from real-life, everyday factors and circumstances, such as health, finances, and family. These are all normal things to feel anxious about, of course. But for people with GAD, the level of anxiety is hugely out of proportion to the initial cause of the problem.
OCD is a little different from the other major anxiety types because while anxiety often involves an avoidance of triggers (such as skipping a party), people with OCD engage in repetitive behaviours tied to a phobia. But OCD is often considered a form of anxiety because people with the disorder usually feel intensely anxious when they can’t perform certain behaviours.
A few common symptoms of the disorder include compulsive hand-washing, obsessive cleaning, returning home to see if you’ve turned off the oven, or performing counting tasks (often driven by a superstition, like “I have to count when walking upstairs or something bad will happen”). The compulsions are typically driven by fear of germs or contamination or mental images of negative situations.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Like OCD, PTSD is different from other types of anxiety disorders. Anxiety is clearly a part of [PTSD], but it’s much more complicated,
People develop PTSD after experiencing a highly stressful situation, life-threatening event, such as a serious injury, or sexual violence, being in the armed forces or experiencing natural disasters. The disorder often causes flashbacks to the initial trauma and upsetting, intrusive thoughts that can interfere with relationships and daily functioning.
Your doctor may refer you to a counsellor, talking therapies are often the best way to help reduce or resolve the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are associated with Panic disorder.
Hypnotherapy can also help, as it allows you to “dig deeper” for the root of the cause.
Doctors may also prescribe anti-depressants anti-anxiety. Anti-depressants can only help in the short term.
If you feel you, or a loved one might suffer from Panic disorder or anxiety, speak with a professional, you don’t have to live with this, you can get help and support, to move forward in your life.
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