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One.
You are sitting or
walking on the street, suppose suddenly a poisonous snake falls in front of
you. He saw that he was moving towards you. In this situation, you ran away and
saw that your arms and legs were paralyzed. You can not move, can not run! A few
minutes like this. Think about what will be your emotional and physical
reaction?
In such a situation,
your heart rate will undoubtedly increase, you will tremble with fear, your
breathing will become faster, blood circulation will increase throughout your
body, you will sweat, you will see blur, your brain will not work, you will
feel empty, your throat will be dry, sure. The fear of death will consume you.
Maybe you will fall unconscious.
The response of our
body and mind to imminent danger is called the 'fight or flight' response.
This fight or flight
response is natural. Almighty Allah or whatever you call him, has programmed
this automatic response in our brain and body during times of danger. For this
response, we either 'fight hard' or 'withdraw' from danger.
American medical
scientist Walter Bradford Cannon first explained this fight or flight response
in his famous medical book 'Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage' in
1915.
This response gives us
a lot of energy and copes with danger. At this time, a hormone called
Adrenaline (Adrenaline/Epinephrine) is released spontaneously in our brain
(more than double than normal) and due to its effect, our body and mind get
energy. Because this hormone is released during the danger period, it is called
the danger hormone.
Two.
Now suppose you are
sitting or walking. There are no snakes, no scorpions, no tigers, no danger or
danger in front of you. Nice cozy environment. But suddenly your body-mind
starts the fight or flight response. So what happens?
You trembled with fear
of the unknown, your palpitation increased, breathing became faster and faster,
sweating, slowly the fear of death gripped you.
If the fight or flight
response (Fight or Flight Reaponse) starts spontaneously in your body without
fear of any danger in a nice calm and quiet environment, then that condition is
called 'Panic Attack' in the term of neuro-psychiatry. And if this happens to
you often in the course of life, then it is called panic disorder.
Let's know, what is a
panic attack or panic disorder?
Panic attack
A panic attack is a
sudden and short period of intense fear in the body and mind, resulting in some
neuro-psychiatric symptoms. There are many people in our society, who suffer
from panic attacks or panic disorder but are not ashamed to say so. And no one
believes it. Everyone laughs and says goodbye to Jinn and ghosts.
The physical and mental
symptoms of a panic attack are as follows:
chest pounding
sweating,
Breathing becomes
faster,
Shortness of breath
Trembling hands and
feet
A feeling of pressure
in the chest,
Dizziness, dizziness,
lightheadedness,
A tingling sensation
all over the body,
Lose yourself from
reality and
I feel like I died of a
heart attack.
A panic attack does not
last long in a patient. Usually symptoms start suddenly and peak within 10
minutes and last only 15/20 minutes. Then gradually the patient became normal.
The patient can walk as before. Basically: these symptoms are forgotten by the
mind.
What happens in a panic
attack?
Although the whole
thing is for a short period of time, this condition is excruciatingly painful
for a patient. Only those who have panic attacks understand the pain. Because
all these mental and physical symptoms for a few minutes are very scary for a
common man!
Many people mistake a
panic attack for a heart attack or asthma. Although the patient feels that he
is dying during a panic attack, no one actually dies from panic disorder.
What is Panic Disorder?
When a person has
frequent panic attacks or is afraid of having a panic attack, the condition is
called 'panic disorder'.
Many people have panic
attacks again at certain times. A place from which it is not possible to get
out easily. For example,
Congested, noisy, grand
function places, clubs, markets, bazaars, shopping malls, closed houses or
public halls, crowded wedding halls or community centers, inside lifts,
elevators, planes, trains, buses or steamers, on the roofs of tall buildings
Or when climbing a high
bridge.
He avoids these places
as the patient gets panic attacks when he goes to these places. This condition
is called 'Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia'. (Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia).
What is agoraphobia?
Agoraphobia is a Greek
word. The Greek word 'agora' means crowded or noisy place or market place or
assembly place. And 'phobia' means fear. That is, fear of going to crowded or
noisy places.
Many patients with
panic disorder do not fly. Many times he ran out of fear before boarding a
plane or train. I get many such patients.
Is there a cure for
this?
Yes, there are
effective treatments for this disease. This is a mental (neuro-psychiatry)
disease
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