Panic Disorder: Symptoms

is the medical term for a psychiatric condition characterized by recurring panic attacks in combination with significant behavioral change or at least a month of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks.(DSM-IV)
sufferers usually have a series of intense episodes of , known as panic attacks. These attacks typically last 10 minutes, but can be as short-lived as 1–5 minutes. However, attacks can wax and wane for a period of hours—one panic attack rolling into another. They may vary in intensity and specific symptoms of panic over the duration (i.e. rapid heartbeat, perspiration, dizziness, dyspnea, trembling, psychological experience of uncontrollable fear, etc.). Some individuals deal with these events on a regular basis—sometimes daily or weekly. The outward often cause negative (i.e. embarrassment, social stigma, social isolation, etc.). However, experienced sufferers can often have with very little outward manifestations of the attack occurring. As many as 36% of all individuals with also have agoraphobia.

Limited symptom attacks are similar to panic attacks, but have fewer symptoms. Most people with PD experience both panic attacks and limited symptom attacks.

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June 28, 2008 | Filed Under Mental Disorders 

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2 Responses to “Panic Disorder: Symptoms”

  1. Dawn Pugh on July 2nd, 2008 10:24 pm

    Hi,
    Often people feel like they are going to have heart attack and die or at least faint. No-one has ever died from a panic attack, the one thing that people can learn is that they can manage their panic attacks but first keeping safe in the knowledge that they will feel their anxiety rise and fall.
    Regards
    Dawn Pugh
    http://www.dawnpugh.com

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