Psychological implications and treatment of panic attacks

Panic attacks, which often occur when you are alone or in a claustrophobic and suffocating environment. This means: lack of social support, separation anxiety. The “near-death feeling” means the anxiety of “falling apart” and seeming to cease to exist in an instant. The “out-of-control, crazy feeling” means deeper inner emotions, such as the desire to cry and scream, run wild, fight, attack, run away, get naked… The “panic and palpitation” in a panic attack. In fact, the body is instantly ready to fight and run, just like a person is “in position, ready ……” waiting for the starting gun. So, if a patient with a panic attack can really spread his legs and run in an instant, the panic attack will be relieved immediately. The reason is that running with the legs, in conjunction with the rapid beating of the heart, achieves the coordination of the fearful mood and the body into a fighting state. Patients with panic attacks feel a strong sense of fear in their hearts while their bodies are quickly mobilized and ready for battle. The panic attacker often belongs to the “quick start” type of neurological quality. Anxiety, anger, aggression and repressed anger are common psychological causes of panic attacks. When these emotions are repressed deep inside, they do not disappear, just like “stored gunpowder”, once encountered open fire… Patients with panic attacks, repressed a lot of aggression and anger, these emotions drive the body to produce “panic and palpitations These emotions push the body to produce “panic and palpitations” and other physiological reactions, the body quickly entered the “first level of combat readiness”. However, at this time, the patient’s own reason is ruling and suppressing the deep emotions, so that the patient only feels the “near-death feeling”, “extreme fear” and the violent beating of the heart, but cannot use words to tell and express these suppressed emotions in the heart. In addition to medication, more important psychological treatments for patients with panic disorder are: 1) encouraging patients to run or to do what they can, in line with their own wishes, to safeguard their own interests; 2) strengthening social support and the company of relatives to enhance family exchanges; 3) under the guidance of psychotherapists, pay attention to and experience the various emotions repressed inside, and try to use words to describe and express these emotions, Try to describe and express these emotions.