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The Linden Method Anxiety and Panic Attacks The Linden Method - Anxiety Imbalances manifest themselves in five major ways. It's also common for individuals to experience symptoms of more than one Anxiety Imbalance simultaneously. i.e. a person with panic imbalance may also suffer symptoms of social anxiety and/or some symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Panic imbalances are the fear of a spontaneous panic attack. Intensity of attacks may be extremely severe and in many cases, people feel they're suffering heart failure and/or are on the verge of death or insanity. It's not unusual for people to become fearful and chronically anxious about a relapse. Social Anxiety is the experience of fear, anxiety and/or panic in social situations. Individuals believe that they may cause embarrassment or alternatively make a fool of themselves in public. Acute Stress Disorder /Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the experience of, or having witnessed, or having come into confrontation with an event or series events that involved or threatened death or serious injury. This may include the threat of physical injury to oneself or someone else. Individuals with PTSD may experience panic attacks caused by reliving events through dreams and/or nightmares or in many cases, flashbacks.Panic Attacks Individuals may experience panic attacks with any of the above imbalances. According to the Linden Method, three different types of panic attacks are now recognized: Spontaneous panic attacksThis particular panic attack is associated to Panic Disorder. This attack comes without any warning, day or night, irrespective of what the person is doing. The spontaneous attack is not related to, and is not induced by any particular situation or place. Many people can be woken from sleep with this type of attack. Specific panic attacksPanic attacks are sudden, discrete periods of intense anxiety, fear and discomfort that are associated with a variety of symptoms. The onset of these episodes is typically abrupt, and seem to have no obvious trigger. Although these episodes appear random, they are considered to be a subset of an evolutionary response commonly referred to as fight or flight that occur out of context, flooding the body with hormones, particularly adrenalin that aid in defending itself from harm.
According to the American Psychological Association the symptoms of a panic attack commonly last approximately ten minutes. However, panic attacks can be as short as 1-5 minutes, while more severe panic attacks may form a cyclic series of episodes, lasting for an extended period, sometimes hours. Often those afflicted will experience significant anticipatory anxiety in between attacks. Panic attacks affect each individual differently. Experienced sufferers may be able to completely 'ride out' a panic attack with little to no obvious symptoms. Others, notably first time sufferers, may even call for emergency services; many who experience a panic attack for the first time fear they are having a heart attack or a nervous breakdown. DescriptionsMany who suffer from panic attacks state they are the most frightening experiences of their lives. Sufferers of panic attacks report a fear or sense of dying, "going crazy", and/ or experiencing a heart attack, feeling faint, nauseous, or losing control of themselves. These feelings may provoke a strong urge to escape or flee the place where the attack began a consequence of the sympathetic "fight or flight" response. A panic attack is a response of the sympathetic nervous system . The most common symptoms may include: trembling, heart palpitations, chest pain, sweating, nausea, dizziness, light-headedness, hyperventilation, paresthesias, sensations of choking or smothering and the feeling that nothing is real. These physical symptoms are interpreted with alarm in individuals prone to panic attacks. This results in increased anxiety, and forms a positive feedback loop (a viscious cycle). Physiological considerations While the various symptoms of a panic attack may feel that the body is failing, it is in fact protecting itself from harm. The various symptoms of a panic attack can be understood as follows. First, there is frequently the sudden onset of fear with little provoking stimulus. This leads to a release of adrenaline which brings about the so-called fight-or-flight response wherein the person's body prepares for strenuous physical activity. This leads to an increased heart rate, rapid breathing which may be perceived as shortness of breath, and sweating which increases grip and aids heat loss. Because strenuous activity rarely ensues, the hyperventilation leads to a drop in carbon dioxide levels in the lungs and then in the blood. This leads to shifts in blood pH, which in turn can lead to many other symptoms, such as tingling or numbness, dizziness, burning and feeling lightheaded. Moreover, the release of adrenaline during a panic attack causes vaso-constriction resulting in slightly less blood flow to the head which causes dizziness and feeling lightheaded.
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