Panic Attack
A panic attack is an unexpected, spontaneous condition accompanied by palpitations, sweating, tremors, feeling short of breath, chest pain or tightness, dizziness, lightheadedness, numbness, tingling, and an intense fear of death, fainting, or going crazy. .
People with panic attacks apply to the emergency services of hospitals with complaints such as “I am having a heart attack”, “I am drowning”, “I am paralyzed”, “I am going to faint”. Necessary medical screening is done in the emergency services, no finding is found to explain the symptoms and it is thought that the person may be having a panic attack and the person is referred to a psychiatrist. While some of these referred people apply to a psychiatrist, some still apply to cardiologists and internists with the thoughts that they still have a heart disease despite the evaluations made in the emergency department, because according to someone who has a panic attack, the symptoms they experience during an attack are literally a heart attack or a stroke. It may be the same as the symptoms of a stroke, but there is a big difference, a panic attack is a symptom mimic, it only mimics situations such as a heart attack or stroke, and the vital organs of these people, such as the heart, lungs, nervous system, are mostly completely healthy. So where is the problem?
First of all, the thing to know is that panic attack is not a disease, it is just a symptom. People who are completely healthy and do not have any psychiatric disease can have a panic attack at some point in their lives, this is like coughing, now ask yourself: is coughing a disease? No, cough is a symptom, a lung patient can cough, a person who has water in his throat can cough, panic attack is just like a cough, it is a symptom, not a disease. Well, if it’s not a disease, why should I go to a psychiatrist?
If a person isolates himself from social life due to panic attacks or for fear of having a panic attack, cannot enter the society, cannot go to the cinema, cannot take the bus, cannot use the elevator, cannot stay at home alone, this is a disease and it is called Panic Disorder and a psychiatrist should be consulted.
Panic disorder is a condition seen in 1 or 2 out of every hundred people in the community. Panic disorder is a disorder that can be completely treated and whose recurrence probability is minimized with appropriate cognitive therapy.
If you have symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, palpitations, tremors, sweating, dizziness, nausea, drowsiness, and if no disease can be detected despite frequent visits to the emergency services, consulting a psychiatrist may save you from these frightening experiences.
Uzman Bilgisi
Psych. Mustafa TATLI
Psychiatrist
- Üniversite : Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine (English)
- Uzmanlık : Bakırköy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital
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