Panic disorder
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RELATIONS BETWEEN PANIC DISORD
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This scientific study examines the patients who have anxiety because of somatic symptoms together with panic disorder. Patients with panic disorder have extreme fear of death and heart attack anxiety as well as loosing control and going mad. These called anxiety symptoms, and dizziness, blackouts, feeling of choking, shortness of breath, palpitation, chest distress and pain, nausea, sweating, abdominal pain, shaking, chills, numbness and tingling accompanied to panic attacks. Many experts do not mention this but as well as these symptoms sometimes hypertension occurs. During panic attacks because of heart vessel contraction and heart acceleration blood pressure increases. This is called “labile tension”. Because of this increase, patients usually diagnose with hypertension and drug treatment to lower the tension is begins. Patients diagnosed with panic attack think that they have hypertension and start to focus on physical symptoms such as increasing blood pressure, that they will have cerebral haemorrhage and life quality of the patient gets worse. In this study, we aim to give information to patients who have panic disorder and increasing blood pressure during panic attacks which we think help to will increase the life quality of the patients.
Somatic symptoms during panic attacks cause the patients to focus on their body. Patients especially think that they will have cerebral haemorrhage because of increasing blood pressure caused by anxiety. Because of blood pressure, respiratory system, gastrointestinal complains which occurs from time to time, patients go to internal medicine or to emergency services. After the examinations and tests no organic diagnoses occur. Therefore patients My Psychology, May 20/4
referred to psychiatry service and diagnose with panic attack disorder after psychiatric evaluation. Antidepressant or anxiolytic drugs are written to patients who have referred psychiatry service if it is necessary. According to a scientific research on panic disorder and its treatments called “Patients diagnosed with Panic Disorder and its treatments and the usage rate of Psychotherapy ” cognitive and behavioural therapy methods are almost not used.
The treatment method which does not cover psychotherapy the patient cannot acknowdge his sickenss and because of the physical symptoms. The treatment method, which does not cover psychotherapy, patient cannot acknowledge their sickness and because of somatic symptoms panic attacks and anxiety increases. Patient’s life quality ruins because of this vicious circle since the patients have symptoms such as panic attack,
expectation anxiety, agoraphobia.
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Patients diagnosed with panic disorder especially have fear of cerebral haemorrhage anxiety impacting their life negatively. Patients usually don’t mention their concerns and this situation causes no awareness to support them. It has been aimed to tell them that they are not hypertension patients and during panic attacks blood pressure increases due to panic disorder and this is a temporary situation.
