The worst thing about panic attacks is the intense fear the person has that they will have another attack. They become preoccupied with their own anxiety symptoms and dwell on thoughts of dying or other catastrophes such as a heart attack. Some will go to extreme lengths to avoid the situation where they had their first attack as they believe that particular situation or event caused it.
How hypnosis helped a boy of 10 whose panic attacks were getting really bad
Exposure, yes, but not this kind
Exposure is better than avoidance but maybe there's an even better way...
Anxiety disorders are among the most common forms of mental illness in early to middle childhood. Developmentally, the common pattern is for anxiety to precede depression. Depression begins to show a dramatic increase around middle adolescence with children and adolescents, who already have an anxiety disorder, at greater risk of developing depression during adolescence and early adulthood.
However, Rapee and the research team found that with a parent-focused intervention at an early stage when children first begin to exhibit characteristics of anxiety, the trajectory can be reversed.
Perhaps more research like this could help prevent anxiety disorders like panic attacks developing in the future.
RYAN REYNOLDS has publicly thanked a smooth-voiced acting coach for helping him control panic attacks while he was locked in a coffin on the set of his new movie.
I think that would have set me off too!
Playboy model Tiffany Livingston tried to open an airplane door while it was flying from Orlando to Newark. The 21 year old model reportedly jumped from her seat and charged the plane's exit.
A source told the New York Post that she had extreme anxiety and was on medication for the panic attacks.
An unnamed source told the paper that it was a bad case of high anxiety.
"She said she's gone through this before, but never this bad, and didn't have...her medication,"
the source told the newspaper.
Charges are still pending from federal authorities against Livingston, from Merrimac, R.I. She was taken into custody yesterday
Livingston was featured as the centerfold for the Singapore version of Playboy, VIP, in 2009. In the magazine, she was described as "not just another pretty face."
UPDATE: TMZ updated their site with new information saying that the feds did interview Livingston after the flight and don’t think she was trying to open the door. Police think she was trying to calm herself down during her panic attack caused by the plane’s turbulence.
Was the 'high anxiety' pun intended?
A woman plagued by panic attacks was so afraid to be away from doctors that she spent four months living in her car in a hospital parking lot in Scotland.
Good old National Health Service :)
Imagine existing in a world full of fear.
Not a fear of anything in particular. More a fear of fear itself. Knowing that at any moment, your mind will trick your body into thinking something horrible is about to happen.
This is the reality for people suffering with panic attacks, according to psychologist Dr. Maureen Whittal, of the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Centre.
“A panic attack, by definition, is a variety of physical sensations — shortness of breath, dizziness, blurry vision, chest pain, nausea, wobbly legs, sweating,” Whittal said. “It’s feeling like you’re not really there.”
The sensations come on fast, in a few seconds or minutes, peak quickly and tail off over a few hours.
For a time last year, this was the terrifying roller coaster world of Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto.
I know exactly how he felt... except for the baseball bit!
