Symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder

summary

Panic disorder is an acute anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent palpitations, sweating, tremors and other autonomic nervous symptoms, accompanied by a strong sense of near death or out of control, and fear of having unfortunate consequences. Because the patients with panic attack have significant autonomic nervous symptoms outbreak, and this kind of attack can be promoted by drugs acting on the brain stem, such as sodium lactate, CO2, yohimbine and so on, German and others believe that the brain stem, especially the locus coeruleus, is closely related to acute panic attack. Symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder

The typical manifestation is that the patient suddenly feels shortness of breath, dizziness or mild headache, syncope, tremor or tremor, unreal feeling, dry mouth, difficult to concentrate or speak, blurred vision, chest tightness, chest pain, chest compression or pain or dyspnea, throat blockage, as if suffocating when he is carrying out daily activities such as reading, eating, walking, meeting or doing housework, About to suffocate, palpitations, heart beat, as if the heart to jump out of the mouth; Hand numbness, foot numbness, suffocation, sweating, hot flashes or chills, eager to escape, nausea, muscle tension, fear of death, loss of control or madness,

At the same time, there is a strong sense of fear, as if they are about to die or lose their senses. This kind of tension makes the patients unbearable, so they scream and call for help. Some patients have symptoms of autonomic nervous hyperactivity, such as hyperventilation, dizziness, unreal feeling, sweating, facial flushing or paleness, unstable gait, tremor, numbness of hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort, etc, During a panic attack, patients usually try to escape from the situation of a special function in order to expect panic to stop, or seek help to prevent collapse, heart attack or madness,

Generally, 5-20 minutes (reaching the peak within 10 minutes), rarely more than 1 hour, it can relieve itself; Or to yawn, urinate, sleep and the end of the attack, attack interval mental state is normal, after the attack, the patient consciously everything as usual, can recall the attack process, but soon can suddenly relapse, the patient can frequent attacks, 1 month up to more than 3 times.

matters needing attention

(1) Supportive psychotherapy explains the nature of the disease to patients, so as to reduce the mental burden of patients, encourage patients to adhere to the treatment plan, organize similar patients to participate in group treatment, and help each other, which can play a better effect（ 2) Cognitive behavioral therapy cognitive therapy is a kind of professional treatment carried out by clinical psychologists or psychiatrists. The short-term effect of cognitive therapy is similar to that of drug treatment, and has a lower recurrence rate. However, the treatment needs to be carried out by specialists and takes more time. Generally, drug treatment should be carried out before cognitive therapy.