PANIC ATTACKS

The panic attacks are a psychological affection manifested by the intense experience
of fear or anxiety states that do not have a logical explanation or obvious reasons. Their
duration varies, but it does not exceed 10 minutes as an average. They occur suddenly and
their frequency cannot be predicted.

People who suffer such fits cannot

control their reactions or thinking anymore:
the explosion of feelings and thoughts makes
it impossible for them to come back to reason.
Statistics reveal that worldwide at least one
person out of 75 will undergo a panic attack in
her lifetime and the numbers are growing.

The panic attacks are triggered by

various contexts and factors; they may occur
in environments that one's psychic thinks
hostile or – on the contrary – in familiar
environments, environments that should
provide a certain degree of safety and mental
comfort. The context and the factors trigger
an association between the situation and a
traumatizing experience in the person's past.

The intensity of panic attacks is much greater than anxiety or depression states; it
affects visibly the quality of a person's life and it may lead to the individual's isolation from
society.

Most times the periods between attacks are accompanied by depression and anxiety
states. Failing to treat this affection may generate an obsessive and irrational pathological fear
of public spaces and crowded places.

This fear is born from the trauma that person suffered and, in her behavior, it shows
itself by the individual's rejection of all persons who are seen as insecurity and crises-
generating factors. For instance, the first panic attack was caused by a close relative through
an action that remains engraved in the person's memory.

In time, she will reject any person reminding her of that action and of its consequences.
Where a person close to the individual is the issue, the individual will reject all known

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persons, trying to protect herself and to eliminate any possibility for the panic attack to occur
again.

That is why most of the persons suffering from this affection accept the intervention of
a specialty physician; his presence is not perceived as a danger-generating factor.

Where the trauma was inflicted by a foreign person, the refusal may appear of
cooperating with a specialized physician. As he is not a member of the individual's circle of
acquaintances, the specialist is seen as a possible crisis generator.

Symptoms and Manifestation

The panic attack distorts a person's reason. Physically it displays a series of specific
manifestations:

 Sweating;
 Suffocation, asphyxiation and lump in the neck sensations;
 Palpitations (irregular heart beats);
 Pain or constraint in the chest;
 Dizziness;
 Disorientation;
 Nausea and stomach aches;
 Hyperventilation (quick and superficial breathing);
 Cold shivers;
 Fainting sensation coming from the stomach;
 Distorted perception of the environment;
 Terror and fear that something terrible will happen, amplified by a helplessness
to react;
 Fear of death, insecurity generated by the feeling that the person is losing
control of herself and she is going insane;
 Uncontrolled and illogical reactions, incapacity to respond properly to stimuli;
 General diminishing of the cognitive capacity (the psychic tension inhibits the
cognitive functions);
 Exacerbated senses and perception of the outer environment;
 An intense and chaotic inner dialogue;
 Feeling of physical and psychical exhaustion.

Failing to treat the panic attacks leads to an aggravated situation; it also turns them
into panic episodes consisting in repeated panic attacks with pauses between them. As they
have passed, the person is physically exhausted and she will usually fall asleep. However,
there are exceptions, too, when – after a series of panic attacks – the person cannot sleep any
more for fear one more crisis might occur during sleep.

The onset of the panic attacks is accompanied by a fatigue sensation. However, in time,
by self suggestion, this sensation will be seen as real by the brain. That is why many of the
persons suffering from this affection show chronic fatigue, physical and psychical exhaustion.

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 Treatment

The initial shock that generated the panic

attacks deranges the endocrine system,
especially the functions and the activity of the
pituitary gland, the thyroid gland and the
adrenals.

Each new panic attack is actually a

reiteration of the shock and an aggravation of
the endocrine disorders. In this way, the panic
attacks will be fed by the hormonal imbalances
in a body and in the meantime various
affections of the endocrine system will
develop.

In this case, the treatment applied will aim

first of all at balancing the endocrine functions
controlling the psychical activity. Secondly, the
energy and physiological blocks will be
removed from the entire body.

The panic attacks treatment plan consists in acupuncture sessions, herb

mixtures administered orally and medical psychological counseling.

Acupuncture breaks the vicious circle and it restores the activity of all endocrine glands,
starting from the periphery to the centre. During the sessions, into the body are released the
endorphins (also called the hormones of happiness owing to their function in the body).

Their release gives a state of happiness in the body, which will be engraved in the
glandular memory. The action of endorphins relaxes a person's psychic and gradually it
removes the tension generated by the panic attacks.

In this way the chain reaction is stopped and the person realizes that what happened in the
past will not necessarily repeat in the present, too.

The herb mixtures and the medical psychological counseling sessions support and
complete the action and the effect of acupuncture, accelerating the person's recovery.

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Worldwide, physicians and specialists have
recognized the efficiency of acupuncture: it
makes the nervous system relax and it fights
the effects that negative stress has upon the
nervous system and upon the entire body as a
matter of fact.
The acupuncture procedures employed
reduce the adrenalin and noradrenalin
secretions; they increase the secretion of
endorphin (a neurotransmitter with strong
analgesic action that relaxes the nervous
system and gives the patients a feeling of
comfort) and serotonin. At the same time, it
regulates the dopamine secretion.
The traditional medicine, whose history is as
old as the planet and as nature, treats the
cause, not the effect.
In this case, the herbs, the various
acupuncture techniques and other methods as
well, treat all the affections, irrespective of
their gravity. The traditional medicine is a
treasure. Those people who find it will guard
and treasure it in their turn. Those who don’t
find it, well, diseases of all kind will find
them.

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