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The main feature of panic disorder is the presence of Panic Attack recurrent, unexpected and are not related to any particular circumstance (are spontaneous) without an external factor that triggers, that are not triggered by exposure to a social situation (such as social phobia) or against a feared object (in which case it would be a specific phobia). Another feature of panic disorder is the persistent fear of having a new Panic Attack, this is fear and fear is called anticipatory anxiety. This anxiety may get to be so important that can lead to mistaken diagnosis of panic disorder with that of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
These Crisis (or attacks) Panic, unexpected and recurrent, often have four or more of the following symptoms :

Intense fear of dying or be suffering a heart attack or serious physical illness that threatens life
Intense fear of going crazy or losing control of himself
Palpitations (awareness of heartbeat), or accelerated heart rate (tachycardia)
Sweating
Pallor
Tremors or muscle twitching
Choking sensation or shortness of breath
Tightness in the throat (feeling unable to breathe) or chest
Nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain or discomfort
Unsteadiness, dizziness or fainting
Feelings of unreality (feel the outside world as something strange)
Feeling of not being oneself (depersonalization)
Tingling (paresthesia)
Chills or a suffering from intense cold
The crisis developed abruptly, reaching maximum intensity in the first ten to 15 minutes and usually last less than an hour. They leave the sufferer in a state of total exhaustion psychophysical and great fear ( anticipatory anxiety ) to return to having a new crisis (fear of fear). Symptoms may include depression-like, afraid to leave or away from home or need to do so accompanied by a very close (family). The person often feels very tender and vulnerable. This type of disorder is so traumatic experience that the sufferer often change suddenly and unfavorable lifestyle habits: not wanting to go out alone in the home or traveling, social withdrawal, neglect their work or academic activities.

Often the person who is suffering a panic attack is the need to “run” the place where you are or to consult a doctor urgently if you think you are dying for real. If this crisis is first experienced in a particular place, train or bus for example, tends to be fear of returning to the same place or means of locomotion, thus developing a phobia to it.

Panic attacks / anxiety are often symptoms of a large group of conditions known as Anxiety Disorders.

There are five disorders (or disorders) anxiety prevalent, that can (and are) made jointly or chains:

Panic Disorder is the fear of spontaneous panic attacks and continuously. You can have a severe intensity, and symptoms are often mistaken for a heart attack.

Social anxiety: the fear of attack in social situations, which would mean public ridicule or embarrassment, creating a permanent state of alert, in order to prevent us from acting naturally in meetings and events with other people.
Acute Stress Disorder or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the experimental situations of risk of death, whether personal or others, or dangerous or threatening events in extreme form.They are often accompanied by panic attacks, nightmares and memories of the event in the form of daydreams, as flashes.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: the thoughts and compulsive behaviors and involuntary forms of rituals that have to be developed in daily life: the compulsive cleaning of an object, excessive grooming, repeating certain words, etc.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: excessive concern is, at a time over months or about events that may not even have occurred. I feel like an idea that haunts you, marked by questions “and what if ….”

What is panic disorder (panic disorder)?
Is a subtype of anxiety disorder, which has medical and psychological treatment. People with panic disorder have sudden episodes of intense fear without reason, called panic attacks (panic attacks). The Panic Attacks are accompanied by physical symptoms, as well as psychics.

What is Panic Attacks (Panic Attack)?
Are episodes of intense fear, which appear suddenly, usually in familiar situations where fear is not expected or where the intensity of fear is disproportionate.

During panic attacks, and to fear, the body reacts with other symptoms. Typically appear palpitations (heart beats), tachycardia (heart goes fast), sweating, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, paresthesias (tingling), tremor, flushing, nausea and stomach pain , etc. All of these symptoms, representing formerly called physical. It also raises other typical symptoms are: fear of losing control, fear of going crazy, fear of dying, derealization (feeling of being in an unreal situation) or depersonalization (feeling detached from body).
In general, the symptoms of panic attacks occur suddenly and reach their maximum intensity within 10 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »