The psychological well being of an individual determines his social response. Most individual live a life of isolation due to ugly experience which has dominated their psychic, they people have some form of disorder. Such individual have stressor which are anything that releases stress hormones in the body, this could lead to anxiety disorder.
Panic disorder is a part of anxiety disorder, People with this disorder experience sudden burst of anxiety symptoms, feel out of control and think they are dying. Panic disorder is a situation that occurs after going through a terrible experience like war survivors, assult and other traumatic experience. Such people always develop an overreactive automatic nervous system which easily goes into a fight-or-flight response. Although as humans we may have our fears which are mild and goes with time, people with anxiety disorder have sever fear which lower the quality of their lives.
Symptoms of panic disorder
SOMATIC:
These are reactions that affectl the body system and sometimes manifest on the outer body, individuals feel excessively distressed about their health and also have abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to their symptoms. These signs are under the somatic symptoms
Goosebumps emerge.
Muscle tense:
Heart rate increase
Adrenaline is secreted
EMOTIONAL
People under anxiety disorder portray some emotional distress traits, their subconscious memory is always crowded with fear thereby making them emotionally unstable. They display some disruptive features like:
Sense of terror
restlessness
Irritability
Salivation decreases
COGNITIVE:
cognitionaccording to online is a term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. The cognitive processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving. They are the higher function of the brain, a person with anxiety disorder looses this function. The brain is sharow and circles in
Anticipation of harm
Exaggeration of danger
Hypervigilance etc
BEHAVIORAL
Attitudes of people with anxiety disorder differs with others behavior, some who suffers this disorder behaves like mentally deranged while others who can control themselves a little response to their sychological attack by
Escape
Avoidance
Aggressive
Freezing
And many other abnormal behavior.
Treatment for panic disorder
Biological treatment:
Under the biological treatment of panic disorder we have administration of Tricyclic Antidepressants such as imipramine are drugs that can help reduce panic attack, other drugs includes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
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Reference:
McGRAW-HILL (Abnormal psychology)