Patients with agoraphobia, in time, tend to multiply various places or situations avoided. Situations and places avoided may differ in great deal from patient to patient. Some places or situations have to be avoided at all cost by some patients. Professional reports are showing cases when places where patients had their first encounter with panic [...]
Agoraphobia is avoidance and fear of such situations where escape is really embarrassing or difficult. Agoraphobia can be in mild cases where with successful treatment will permanently go away, or it can be in stage where immediate severe treatment should be started.
There are two situations that patients with agoraphobia avoid and fear. First one is [...]
There are several symptoms pointing to panic attacks. Diagnostic process needs four symptoms at least, to declare panic attack at any patient. Heart pounding (tachycardia), breath shortness, pain and discomfort in chest, some point of dizziness, chocking, trembling, sweating are declared as panic symptoms from first rank. At least one of these symptoms most likely [...]
Panic attacks may show unexpected. First experience for the person suffering is very frightening. Many times panic attack shows sudden and they can reach climate very fast, in 10 minutes or so. Physical symptoms showing may be very prominent, and feelings can be very strong. Catastrophic scenarios are very strong in patient head and running [...]
When taking panic disorders into consideration two components are emphasizing. Anticipatory anxiety and panic attacks. Panic attacks are not reflection of present physical illness, so they cannot be predicted or expected, at least not at the start. Maybe with time some hints may show that “something” is preparing on certain stimulus. Great deal of panic [...]
Disorders that can be called as anxiety can be divided on “pathological anxiety”; disorder not caused by physical illness, and so called “normal” anxiety. There are certain differences between them and there are several of them.
Pathological anxiety intensity is high to certain situations, last longer, it is manifested trough overwhelming, and distressing and incapacitating experience [...]
In recent years of clinical daily practice disorders like anxiety are quite common. Those disorders got great negative impact on human’s quality of life. Quite often these disorders can be over looked or minimized. Anxiety symptoms can occur together with some other conditions known to psychiatric science. This mix can cause great deal of problems [...]
