Panic Attack treatment techniques

Panic attacks are a temporary state of instability that appear in the form of sudden shocks that create turbulence in things and panic among people, And out of the severity of the surprise, the patient can’t determine its kind: is it a psychological thing or one of his organs?, then all he remembers that His heartbeat became very fast, or a sudden drop occurred in the heart and that it has stopped or almost stopped, breathing became short and not discontinuous, and he hardly takes enough air during breathing, his body (front and private parts) became cool with cold sweat covered and contractions in the upper abdomen, weakness of muscles in the feet and hands that he felt he can’t stand on his foot or do anything with his hands, a frequent desire to urinate.

And the patient cannot do anything in this case, And the case is a concomitant  with a state of fear and a severe sudden (panic), and the patient feels like he was going to die, and therefore he tries to contact a doctor or any hospital nearby, and this  case lasts several minutes and it’s not common to last more than that then it ends but it leave the patient with fear traveling or going out to public places or any place he thinks fear not facilitated to rescue, and he will avoids markets and crowded places, planes and trains, and this gives him another disorder called "Agoraphobia"  fear of going out to public places to fear of the situation in the situation will  drive the patient to lose control of himself and he becomes in a state of shame in front of people.

There are a lot of psychological techniques to treat such cases, for example:

1- Cognitive Therapy: by exploring ideas and perceptions associated with the pathological situation in order to correct them and replace them with correct ideas and perceptions. In cases of panic attacks we try to explain the patient feel any sensations or physical changes as if they are things are very dangerous and can lead to death, for example, any increase in the number of heart or tightness he considers it as signs of death. Therefore, it is very useful to learn how the patient's symptoms arise, and that these psychological symptoms associated with the disease and not a serious heart or chest or  brain condition, and this attack takes a certain time and then ends by itself and it does not pose a threat to his life in any form. If the patient grasped these facts in a simple and summoned from memory whenever he face any panic attack, this will greatly reduce the severity. 

2-  Relaxation: When a patient learns relaxation techniques and begins to Do it seriously, this greatly reduces the degree of tension during the attack situation, in addition to the patient feels that he has gained the ability to control himself again.

 3- breathing exercises:  A rise in breath happens during the  panic attack and this may lead to the occurrence of some of the annoying symptoms of the patient, such as feeling light-headed or fainting. Therefore, if the patient was trained to regulate his breathing, that will help him to control many of the annoying symptoms during an attack. It is the biological standpoint, there are many drugs that have been used successfully in many cases, such as tricyclic antidepressants. 

 4-  Arranging social relations to ensure social the sense of security and consolidation will help the situation.

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