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December 23, 2009
my mother in law gets them and she thinks she’s going to die.she’s in denial and is convinced it’s not a panic attack.symptoms are shooting pains up through the chest,feeling weak and dizzy that lasts 10 minutes,the doctors have done all checks,heart,blood etc and say shes fine.help!!!
Those symptoms you describe are certainly indicitive of panic attacks. I get them and they can be terrifying – despite telling yourself you are ok, the physical feelings just fuel the panic. You can honestly feel you are about to die! At worst i get hyperventilation and collapse with lack of breath. I know it sounds crazy to non sufferers but it really is anasty affliction and hard for people to understand.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Those symptoms you describe are certainly indicitive of panic attacks. I get them and they can be terrifying – despite telling yourself you are ok, the physical feelings just fuel the panic. You can honestly feel you are about to die! At worst i get hyperventilation and collapse with lack of breath. I know it sounds crazy to non sufferers but it really is anasty affliction and hard for people to understand.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Panic attacks my favorite! ( NOT ). I get panic attacks all the time. You get them when you anxious. You either feel like your having a heart attack. I went to about 8 doctors including a cardiologist and im fine , even tho sometimes i don’t feel it. You got to tell your mind that your fine and you got tests that proved your fine and went to good doctors doctors.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Panic Attacks (& Anxiety Attacks), if you want to know what is physiologically happening, are basically an unexpected surge of adrenaline into the blood system. We all have heard about super human feats of strength when dealing with emergency rescues; like lifting a car off of a child or running or climbing to help someone in danger. Psychology studies tell us of the "fight-or-flight" reaction when we are suddenly confronted with a frighteningly immanent attack; this is because the body injects this adrendaline into the arterial blood system which gives us this super human power to run like hell {flight} or kick & hit like crazy {fight}. Panic-Anxiety Attacks are nothing more (physiologically) than this surge of adrenaline taking place …at the wrong time! This is the catch; no one knows exactly what causes this sudden surge of adrenaline when there is no danger, no sudden attack nor any emergency to tend to. However, the body (working from the premise of cause-&-effect) doesn’t generally do things like this without a motivating cause. Thus, since we are also heavily influenced by our memories, thoughts, imagination and day-dreams, there seems to be a lot more going on in our lives than confronting, say, Mr. Jones’ pitbull terrier charging for our throat or our child sitting precaiously on the ledge of an open window on the 6th floor. Thus, a visit to a good psychologist should facilitate the discovery of whatever hidden fears and anxieties people who suffer from these attacks have. Once discovered, a proper balanced therapeutic plan of action using cognitive and behavioral suggestions should alleviate the panic and anxiety, if not the actual "attack" itself! (Just having read this answer is, in fact, a form of cognitive therapy – because "now you know" what’s actually happens when it happens !!!)
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I am a clinical psychologist and member of the American Psychological Association; a quick look in the APA’s new Dictionary of Clinical Psychology can clarify these and other questions as well as provide more indepth knowledge regarding other maladies.
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
That’s no ordinary panic attack, that is extremely acute. It’s not normal to have it that extreme. Is she very anxious? Is she easily frightened? Can she sit down and have quiet time with herself? All she really has to do is listen to that still small voice and ask herself what is the problem. The truth will set her free.
Panic attacks are actually a sodium imbalance. The sodium gets too low and you panic. The body is trying to tell you something. So you correct the imbalance and it’s OK. By this time, it has become habit. She would feel like something is wrong if she doesn’t have the occasional panic attack. She may need something like medication to teach herself to stop doing that. She can’t do it on her own.
Is she a perfectionist? Is she religious and she is finding it difficult to live up to her own standards? This is typical of someone raised in a religious school or household. The unnecessary condemnation makes everything fall short of being good enough. Some things need to be left well enough alone. Not everything adheres to good or bad.
She would have to learn to stand up to the panic and say "I’m not going to take this". She would have to find the courage to defy it. Her self-image concept may be what is lacking here the most. If she is smaller than the problem, it will overwhelm her.
Can she actually feel, or is everything right or wrong? If her feelings are a mystery her panic will be too. If she can’t feel, because it might be wrong she will never find anything right. The fear is a bondage. No fear should be more important than her peace of mind. But she has to want it. You cannot do it for her. Emotions are not found through co-dependence. You cannot enable someone that is unwilling.
It’s very thoughtful of you to be so concerned about her. But she has a family, why have they tolerated this? Why hasn’t she found help before now? Those familiar family roles can lock a person into a pattern because everyone expects it. If she were to change, she would be upsetting the whole apple cart. They have to change too.
She is not objective. She is letting this dictate how she feels about herself. She has probably always taken it too much too heart and it only gets worse. And you have not grown accustomed to it like everyone else.
She is not a baby and you cannot mother her. Women are like this. They can’t function without their emotions. They don’t compartmentalize. After all this time, she may not be able to go against such a long standing habit.
She may get meds and she may learn to react less. She may learn to see herself and what she does to start another episode. And she may not. Can you live with that? You’re acute reactions may be making it worse. She is helpless. You can be kind, but then you leave and she goes right back to the same old thing.
You seem to be a kind sensitive person. Calm down. Be rational. Be yourself. This may be too much for you.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
ive had one befrore in the icu due to a side effect of reglan(anti nasuea meds).
at first it felt like my body wasnt getting any oxygen from the air i was breathing. i had no idea what was happening. i called the nurses and they said my vitals were fine, they told me that like three times. I started to feel like i was going to die, i know that i wouldnt, but the thought wouldnt leave my mind. then my mom came in (a registered nurse). she had seen what reglan has done to some pple and immediattly recognized it inme. so i got some anxiety meds and i was fine.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.
Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There’s this strange herb called "St John’s Wort" – it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John’s Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.
The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced… you have that "learned behavior" in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction… There are several other techniques to help cope them!
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http://PanicAttackResearch.blogspot.com
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