Coping with Panic Attacks Without Medication | Managing Panic Attack - Why Are Some People Claustrophobic?

Coping with Panic Attacks Without Medication | Managing Panic Attack




panic and anxiety disorders and diseases
hardest retrieved simply because there's
no outward symptoms of Foreign Affairs
things until recently doctors are saying
all it's all in your head not just
doctors family members brand lures
people when they're dealing with panic
or anxiety attaks people sometimes think
you're coping not making excuses daily
work for lazy they've shown no sympathy
with so if you suffer from panic attacks
I'm sure you'd feel like reaching out to
shake my hands because it's something
you would in with your worst enemy I
have heard people say I hope you never
go through 1 I'm going through I believe
you remember the first time and place
you experience panic attaks
imagine what it felt like being on a
dentist chair in thinking you're going
crazy like the Camry in your hearts
racing looking around till the walls
caving in
feel like you're getting the tunnel
vision feel like any moment you're gonna
black out in from all over and no one
understands your head is ringing you
can't think straight going mile a minute
where you are right now maybe somebody
going to a panic or anxiety attacks and
you think you're alone and people around
you are being dismissed even don't
understand you are listening to the
voice of someone who knows what you're
going to do and how hard it is pleased
there's a link under this video clip and
get some information about a program
that will help you don't wait another
day don't wait another minute get some
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wish you the best good luck and Godspeed

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Why Are Some People Claustrophobic?




When I was a kid, we got a new twisty tube-slide
at the elementary school. Kids liked to clog
it up on purpose, with the kid at the bottom
stopping and holding everyone else in the
pipe. Some kids thought it was a riot, but
I felt trapped and immediately had a sense
of dread. I screamed, the kids unclogged,
and I was instantly uncool. Was that claustrophobia?
Or something else?
In 1879, physician Dr. Benjamin Ball observed
two patients in Paris who, curiously, couldn't
stay in their apartment with the doors closed
without anxiety, and a third who was climbing
Saint-Jacques Tower, and felt an overwhelming
urge to flee. She ran to the exit, andquot;dashing
her headandquot; in the process. Apparently, the
urge immediately vanished upon reaching the
open air.
Ball dubbed this bizarre feeling andquot;claustrophobia,andquot;
and the 1881 American Journal of Insanity
called it andquot;a special form of delirium, characterized
by a 'fear of closed spaces;'andquot; today they
include narrow spaces with enclosed ones.
The list of spaces is long, including subways,
elevators, rooms without windows, public bathrooms,
tunnels, cars, hotel rooms, planes and so
on. And even THINKING about it can trigger
an attack… sorry. Most people who live with
it don't get it formally diagnosed, because
there's no need to do so, their own fear causes
those affected to spend much of their lives
avoiding trigger spaces.
The National Health Service in the UK says
10-percent of the population is affected by
claustrophobia, though studies find only about
four percent will suffer from full-blown attacks.
I call it an attack, because psychologists
and psychiatrists connect it to anxiety disorders,
believing it's essentially a short-lived panic
attack. It might be caused by some kind of
childhood trauma. For example, losing one's
parents in a crowded place, getting stuck
in a hole (or a slide?)... it's really hard
to say.
Since the late 19th century, researchers have
been digging into this crazy fear, and found
very little solid ground. A 2007 study in
the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
found women were far more likely than men
to experience claustrophobia, and a study
in the journal Cognition in 2011, found it
may have to do with the invisible bubble of
andquot;personal spaceandquot; we all project around us.
Most people's personal space extends only
as far as we can reach, but people with claustrophobia
may be projecting their personal space beyond
their reach! Thus, when someone violates that
territorial bubble, the person experiences
a panic attack! Researchers think this disorder
may have a connection to acrophobia, or a
fear of heights; as people with claustrophobia
seem to underestimate horizontal distances
the way acrophobics do with vertical ones.
Essentially, they believe the room is smaller
than it really is. This study is about as
far as we've come to understanding the disorder.
Perhaps it's a defense mechanism, and some
are simply more sensitive to it…
There does seem to be a genetic component
as well. A 2013 study in Translational Psychiatry
found a single mutation on gene Gpm6a causes
andquot;claustrophobia-likeandquot; behavior in mice. Plus,
a study in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
found people with panic disorders had significantly
smaller amygdalae: the section of the brain
that processes fear!
In the end, they're still trying to figure
out WHY some people experience claustrophobia.
As with most anxiety disorders, there's no
true andquot;cure.andquot; Symptoms can be managed, but
if the phobia is severe, specialists will
recommend exposure therapy -- where the claustrophobic
person would be walked through imagining,
and then experiencing the things that cause
the fear until they, essentially, get over
it. It's rough, but so far, is the best we
have. More research is, for sure, needed.
What do you think? Have
you experienced claustrophobia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5u4BK0Pm50