Panic Attacks Anxiety Attacks

These attacks can be scary but help is available. Without the aid of others you may never get rid of these panic attacks. With help you will definitely get rid of them.Is It a Panic Attack?
It could be a social anxiety disorder. The symptoms
for panic attacks and anxiety attacks are very
similar. The treatments are also very similar.
Typically a person diagnosed with panic attack will
need to show four of the following symptoms. These
symptoms initiate quickly, without reasonable stimulus, and peak at around 10 minutes:

Palpitations: The experience of intensely feeling one's own heart beating as if it was to beet out of one's chest.

Sweating

Trembling or shaking

Sensations of shortness of breath or a sense of being smothered

Feeling of choking

Chest pain or discomfort in the chest

Nausea or abdominal distress

Dizziness or light headed

Feeling of unreality or being detached from oneself

Felling of losing control or going crazy

Fear of dying

Paresthesia: numbness or tingling sensation, particularly in the arms and lets

Chills or hot flushes

Feeling of imminent danger

Feeling of impending doom and an urge to escape

Many people who have panic attacks or anxiety attacks have social anxiety disorder. Social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder, is diagnosed when people become overwhelmingly anxious and excessively self-conscious in everyday social situations. People with social phobia have an
intense, persistent, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and of doing things that will embarrass them. They can worry for days or weeks before a dreaded situation. This fear may become so severe that it interferes with work, school, and other ordinary activities, and can make it hard to make and keep friends.

While many people with social phobia realize that their fears about being with people are excessive or unreasonable, they are unable to overcome them. Even if they manage to confront their fears and be around others, they are usually very anxious beforehand, are intensely uncomfortable throughout the encounter, and worry about how they were judged for hours afterward.

Social phobia can be limited to one situation (such as talking to people, eating or drinking, or writing on a blackboard in front of others) or may be so broad (such as in generalized social phobia) that the person experiences anxiety around almost anyone other than the family.

Physical symptoms that often accompany social phobia include blushing, profuse sweating, trembling, nausea, and difficulty talking. When these symptoms occur, people with PTSD feel as though all eyes are focused on them.

Social phobia affects about 15 million American adults.Women and men are equally likely to develop the disorder, which usually begins in childhood or early adolescence. There is some evidence that genetic factors are involved. Social phobia is often accompanied by other anxiety disorders or depression and substance abuse may develop if people try to self-medicate their anxiety.

Social phobia can be successfully treated with certain kinds of psychotherapy or medications.