Panic Attacks: Are They Truly Serious?

By Greg Anderson

Yes, panic attacks are very serious and they typically grow more serious over time.

The feelings that sufferers experience when they are having a panic attacks are truly scary: Feeling as an asthma attack is coming on, feeling that the heart is beating so fast that a heart attacks is imminent, and even physical pain in any part of the body can occur with a panic attack.

The stomach pain can be so bad that it feels like you are being kicked in the stomach, and the lungs can feel like they are dying from lack of air. Sometimes, nearly every part of the body can hurt or even go numb during a panic attack. The physical effects can be horrible, but sometimes the psychological ones are potentially worse. A panic attack can make you feel like you are literally losing your mind, like you will die soon, or that the world is ending.

People who have panic attacks are usually, quite understandably, so scared to have them that they are constantly on edge wondering when the next one will occur. Panic attacks do not necessarily result in lasting physical problems, but the emotional and mental effects are severe.

It is actually quite common for the physical effects of panic attacks to be so severe that patients will end up in hospital emergency rooms or at urgent care centers, fearing they are going into cardiac arrest, having a severe asthma attack, or having a nervous breakdown.

Some doctors actually tell panic attack patients "it's all in your head, nothing serious" in a dismissive manner and end up making the patient feel truly hopeless.

Panic attacks are a very serious medical problem and they need to be regarded as such. Unlike other medical problems, such as an easily treated virus or illness, panic attacks require an approach that treats the problem, and prevents it from continually occurring. Panic attacks need to be not just managed, but prevented. Panic attacks are a medical problem that can be quite serious and accelerate until they are nearly out of control, so it is important that patients and doctors alike treat them that way.

A program like Panic Away is the most effective way to stop panic attacks. We know that temporary fixes are not effective, so this program makes sure that there is a long term solution. The core of the program is psychological techniques that control the panic attack triggers and stop them from reoccurring. - 32513

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