The cause of panic attacks is not quite clear, so treatment might differ from individual to individual. Basically there are two major treatments for panic attacks which are; Psychological therapy and medication. Depending on the circumstances surrounding the attacks, you may need one of these two treatment options or a combination of the two.

If therapy doesn’t prove productive (it mostly does), then the therapist might recommend medication. No single treatment works for everyone and you may need to try a number of treatments before finding one that works for you. The treatment that’s recommended will depend on your general level of health, the severity of your condition and your personal preferences.
It’s important you understand what your treatment will involve, and if you don’t understand something your therapist has told you, ask them to explain it in more details.

Psychological Therapy

Psychological therapy or psychotherapy is considered an effective first choice treatment for panic attack and panic disorder. It often involves a lot of talking, between the therapist and the patient. The therapist tries to go deep into the patients past to try finding the link to his or her present plight. Psychological therapy can help you fully understand panic attacks and also teaches you how to manage and cope with it.
Like I mentioned above, the form of psychological therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy is what therapist use to help you learn through your own experience that panic symptoms are not dangerous.

The therapist may discuss with you how you react when you have a panic attack and what you think about when you’re experiencing an attack. Once you and your therapist have identified any negative thoughts and beliefs, you can work on replacing them with more realistic and balanced ones.

Your therapist can also teach you ways of changing your behavior, making it easier for you to deal with future panic attacks. For example, they may be able to show you breathing techniques that can be used to help keep you calm during a panic attack.

Seeing results from treatment can take time and effort. You may start to see panic attack symptoms reduce within several weeks and often, symptoms decrease significantly or go away within several months. You may schedule occasional maintenance visits, to help ensure that your panic attacks remain under control or to treat re-occurrences.

Medication

Medication can also come in handy in reducing panic attack symptoms. Most of these medicines also help in reducing depression, if that’s an issue, but most times, your therapist would advice you not to rely on them, viewing them more or less as a latter resort.

Below are some of the most efficient types of medication for panic attack symptoms:

• (SSRIs) Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. These are generally safe with a low risk of serious side effects. SSRI antidepressants are typically recommended as the first choice of medications for treating panic attacks. Some SSRIs approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of panic disorder include fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva) and sertraline (Zoloft).
• Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). These medications are another class of antidepressants. The SNRI drug called venlafaxine hydrochloride (Effexor XR) is FDA approved for the treatment of panic disorder.

• Benzodiazepines. These sedatives are central nervous system depressants. Benzodiazepines may be habit-forming, causing mental or physical dependence, especially when taken for a long time or in high doses. Benzodiazepines approved by the FDA for the treatment of panic disorder include alprazolam (Xanax) and clonazepam (Klonopin). If you seek care in an emergency room for a panic attack, you may be given a benzodiazepine to help stop the attack.

Benzodiazepines are generally used only on a short-term basis. Because they can be habit-forming, this tyype of medication isn’t a good choice if you’ve had problems with alcohol or drug abuse. They can also interact with other medications, causing dangerous side effects.

Conclusion

If one type of medication doesn’t work for you, your doctor might advise you to try others and in some cases, they might advise for you to combine two medications for quicker effects.
Keep in mind that it might take a couple of weeks an improvement. Also keep in mind that some of these drugs might have side effects, and you need to be cleared by a doctor before you start taking them. Whatever the case might be, a focus on psychotherapy remains the ideal option.

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A panic attack can be really scary, especially if it’s happening to you for the first time. But no matter what the case might be, there’s no such thing like getting used to a panic attack. Well research has been made over the years and it has been found that there are actually certain ways that you could handle panic attack at the instant it occurs, though it might be a bit challenging, considering the fact that you’re scared out of your mind, but then again, doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Panic attacks occur when your adrenaline glands fill your body with adrenaline response. Adrenaline causes the heart to pump extra blood. This extra blood gets pumped into your major muscles to increase your ability to run fast and to increase the strength in your arms. Extra blood also goes into your brain to give you heightened abilities to respond to the emergency.

It takes three minutes from the time that your brain sends the emergency signal until your body is fully adrenalated with extra blood in your large arm and leg muscles and in your brain. In that three minute period you experience your heart pumping hard and extra blood flowing throughout your body. As long as your adrenal glands keep getting an emergency message, they continue to produce and release additional adrenaline. Once your brain stops signaling an emergency, your adrenal glands hold the adrenaline instead of releasing it.

Follow the following steps if you’re faced with one of these attacks, they’re really simple steps to follow and will save you a whole lot of future complications.

1. Relax and Breathe

Most people might see this as unnecessary, but it is the first and most important step of dealing with the panic attack right on the spot. When you feel short of breath, it doesn’t mean you’re not getting enough air. In fact, people will often say “I can’t catch my breath”, and this shows that they’re getting air, because we talk by making air vibrate. If you’re talking, you’re breathing! It’s not a dangerous symptom. But it does get people very scared, and it produces other uncomfortable physical symptoms, so it’s worth your while to be able to correct it.

You’ve probably already had it told to you, and you’ve probably also read it as well, that what you need to do is “take a deep breath”. If you’re like most people, that advice hasn’t helped you much. It’s good advice, but it’s incomplete. It doesn’t tell you how to take a deep breath. A good breathing exercise should tell you how to take a deep breath. It is very simple, the only thing that you’re missing is exhaling. The reason why you’re finding it hard to breathe is because you’re not exhaling. Handle that, and breathing shouldn’t be a problem when you get these attacks.

2. Stop Negative Thinking

This is simply done by channeling your thoughts into more positive things, try as hard as possible not thinking of anything negative at all. Put at instant stop to any negative thought rushing through your brain thereby stopping the emergency message that your brain is sending to your adrenaline glands. Often people having a panic attack get into an endless loop repeating the same catastrophic thoughts over and over in their head. Interrupting this endless loop gives you the opportunity to replace the scary message with a calming one.

3. Positive Thinking

Now that you’ve done away with the negative thoughts, the next thing you would want to do is to start making positive statements. For example, if you feel like you’re having a heart attack, which is always the case in most cases, the normal thing that will come to your mind to say is “ Oh my, I’m having a heart attack, or “I’m going to die, or “HELP! HELP! After you’ve stopped yourself from thinking negatively, make loud statements like “Oh I know I’m having a panic attack and it’s just going to last for some minutes, and that’s it” or if you could just say “I’ve been through worst, I can go through this and come out strong”. Keep repeating these statements until the attack finally subsides.

Conclusion

Though it’s true that panic attacks can be really scary when it occurs, it is beneficial that you learn how to tackle it when it occurs. Control your breathing, try breathing out more. Stop thinking negatively entirely and try putting focus on making more encouraging statements in that situation.