Panic attack

What is a panic attack? What symptoms manifests panic attack? You will find answers to these questions in the article.

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What is a panic disorder

Criterion of disorder in the form of panic reactions are
Spontaneous, episodic and intense periods of anxiety, usually
Overweight. Such panic attacks are often two
times a week in persons susceptible to this disorder, although they can
arise and less and more. Terms «panic attack» and «vegetative
crisis» equally used to designate practically
Identical states. Panic attack (vegetative crisis) -
are the most striking and dramatic manifestation of the syndrome
Vegetative dystonia.

In turn, the vegetative dystonia syndrome (SVD) can
occur and develop under the influence of numerous factors such,
as hereditary-constitutional factors, psychophysiological
Shifts (the effect of acute or chronic stress), hormonal
Perestroika (periods of Pubertata, postpartum and climax),
Organic Somatic Diseases (Psychosomatic
diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, ulcerative
disease, bronchial asthma, other somatic diseases),
organic diseases of the nervous system (for example, violations in
work of integrative brain systems, limbico-reticular
complex, hypothalamic field, brain stem structures),
Professional diseases (severe work in psychological or
physical plane), neurosis, mental disorders (first
turn depression). All these factors create primary prerequisites
for the development of the syndrome, which may be complicated in the future
The emergence of panic attacks (PA).

Sigmund Freud at the end of the last century describes «Alarm attacks»,
in which anxiety arose suddenly was not provoked
any ideas, and accompanied breathing disorders, cardiac
activities and other bodily functions. Similar states
Described by Freud within «neurosis anxiety» or «Neurose
anxiety». Word «panic» takes its origin on behalf of
Ancient Greek God Pana. According to myths, unexpectedly appeared
Pan caused such a horror that a person grumbled rushed to run, not
Viewing roads without giving yourself a report in that the flight itself
could threaten him death. Concepts of surprise and surprise
The appearance of an attack may be of fundamental importance for
Understanding the origin of panic attacks.

Term «panic attack» received today recognition worldwide
Thanks to the classification of the American Psychiatrists Association.

How the panic attack is manifested