Anxiety Panic Disorder

A panic anxiety disorder is characterized by the appearance of severe and sudden episodes of very intense symptoms such as accelerated heart beat, intense sweating, limb shaking, confusion, terror, the feeling of death imminence or craziness, sense alertness, pupil dilation, choking the impulse to run or scream and so on. If the cause of the panic attack is not in a life-threatening situation or in a specific medical ailment, then, the diagnosis could be anxiety panic disorder. Usually, before turning into anxiety panic disorder, any panic attack could be accidental and unique of its kind.

Normally, a panic attack reaches its peak intensity within a minute or two and then decreases to a state of normality over the next thirty minutes or next several hours. The characterization of an anxiety panic disorder results from the attack frequency, usually of an unequal intensity. Hence, several anxiety bouts per month definitely represent a worsening of the condition and something to keep one in sheer terror.

The frequency of the anxiety panic attack disorder cases is higher with women in the twenty-to-thirty age group. The problem is less frequent in older or younger age groups; plus it is usually favored by a separation trauma experienced

by the patient some time during childhood. The beginning of an anxiety panic disorder may be gradual or abrupt, meaning that you can start having symptoms some time in advance before the full anxiety bout, or the panic may strike you out of the blue.

There is often a diagnosis difficulty with many cases of anxiety panic disorder because of the inconclusive nature of certain medical tests. Many people thus spend weeks, months or years going from specialist to specialist, receiving all sorts of opinions and treatment options. The patient's condition is also likely to aggravate if the diagnosis and evaluation are not correct. On the other hand, once they learn what they suffer from, many people will avoid the elements with the potential or triggering an anxiety panic disorder.

Such considerations will keep anxiety panic disorder sufferers away from social reunions, restaurants, church services, shopping centers, elevators or airplanes. If not treated properly, an anxiety panic disorder may radically change a patient's life ruining day-to-day activities, causing depression and many other problems. Plus, anxiety and its symptoms will be a lot more difficult to face in the cases of alcohol or substance abuse and self-medication.