how do you treat an anxiety attack?

Question

i've had 2 anxiety attacks in the lsat 3 days. iv had all the symptoms except for 2. do i need psychotherapy or can it be treated by medication?

Answer 1

You need to find the reason for the anxiety and work on removing it. There are many triggers like heights, germs, elevators, people, cars etc. Find yours and then you can stare it in the face and try to overcome it. Small doses is best until you get comfortable with the problem.
Don't take meds unless you must. You will become dependant upon them.
There are groups out there to help remove your phobias and you can find them on the internet. They work with you for a week or so and when you are done the phobia is gone.
I was always fearful of heights. I have pushed myself to confront them by standing in high places, visiting the grand canyon, walking on bridges and I have found it helps toughen me up. It is only when I stay away from heights do I get fearful again.
Don't let this control your life you can conquer it. And the sooner the better.

Answer 2

Panic or anxiety attacks are the #1 mental disorder in the United States, surpassing even depression. It is the curse of the Starbucks generation because it is easily triggered by caffeine.

You family doctor can prescribe several different medications, including Xanax, Tranzene, Zoloft, or Paxil.

Limiting caffeine and sugar intake will reduce your episodes. Practicing simple meditation techniques have proven very successful.

Panic attacks are almost always accompanied by hyperventilation. You feel as though you can't breath, yet the problem occurs because you are getting too much oxygen. Learn to slow your breathing or breath into a paper bag to recycle carbon dioxide. Do not use plastic bags.

Psychotherapy is usually futile since anxiety disorder is mostly organic.

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Answer 3

I am so sorry for your panic attacks, they feel like heart attacks. I've not had a heart attack but that's what you here they're like, so it makes it worse cause you go to the Hosp. and they do Thousands of dollars worth of test and send you home with nothing. Your primary doctor will do similar if not the same. They'll give you some new meds. on the market, cause those company's hook up those doctors. Now you are left with going to a clinic for pain management. They know they're the only help out there so it will cost you a lot to get what you need, the oldest med. on the market. Valium, if you don't want that then get Xanax. The only thing that works. This is serious, no bullsh!t here, plain and simple. Good luck. I promise you those other meds, like lorazapam, chlorazapam, it's all for the med. company's and their pushers. Not for your well being.

Answer 4

I am so happy, it was only a 35 minute drive ( 70 minutes total) but absolutely no sign of anxiety or panic i shopped till I dropped - brilliant! I will now go for the next stage DUAL CARRIAGE way, probably at the weekend, with my husband accompanying me first then the solo drive, if successful the final stage of driving on motorway

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Answer 5

Both I go to a psychiatrist and take medication because I've started getting them frequently. My psychiatrist taught me some wierd breathing exercises that usually work but sometimes it doesn't because I always have my 7 month old around but if I were you I would as a first step make an appointment with a psychiatrist and they will take it from there and determine if you need to be medicated or not.

Answer 6

I get them all the time. The best thing to do is just stop what you're doing, lie down, and try not to think about anything at all, just relax. Breathing exercises might help, too, so can talking to someone (about other topics) to distract you from whatever triggered the attack.

This usually works for me, and mine can get pretty bad. The first one I got, I thought I was having a heart attack.

Answer 7

I have suffered with them for years and have taken different meds until I found one that works. I take Prozac. Talk with your physician and they can help determine which medication can help with your problem. Plus if they put you on a medication and it doesn't seem to work or there are side effects there is always another one you can try. Good luck!

Answer 8

Always start with psychotherapy. The therapist will later tell you if you do or don't need medication or will get someone who knows this...

Answer 9

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LONDON (Reuters) - Regular cups of tea can help speed recovery from stress, researchers from University College London (UCL) said on Wednesday.

Men who drank black tea four times a day for six weeks were found to have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol than a control group who drank a fake tea substitute, the researchers said in a study published in the journal Psychopharmacology.

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tea drinkers also reported a greater feeling of relaxation after performing tasks designed to raise stress levels.
Andrew Steptoe, of UCL's department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and one of the report's authors, said the findings could have important health implications.

"Slow recovery following acute stress has been associated with a greater risk of chronic illness such as coronary heart disease.

"Although it does not appear to reduce the actual levels of stress we experience, tea does seem to have a greater effect in bringing stress hormone levels back to normal."

In the study, 75 tea-drinking men were split into two groups, all giving up their normal tea, coffee and caffeinated drinks.

Half were given a fruit-flavoured caffeinated tea mixture made up of the usual constituents of a cup of black tea.

The others were given a caffeinated substitute, identical in taste but without the active tea ingredients.

Neither the participants or the researchers knew who was drinking real or false tea.

At the end of six weeks the participants were given a series of tests designed to raise their stress levels, including being given five minutes to prepare and deliver a presentation.

The researchers found that stress levels, blood pressure and heart rate rose similar amounts in both groups.

But 50 minutes after the tasks cortisol levels had fallen an average of 47 percent among the tea drinkers, compared to 27 percent in the fake tea group.

Steptoe said it was not known which ingredients in tea were responsible for the effects found in the study

Answer 10

take some deep breaths and count backwards from 100. It helps me. I recently had a couple. I thought one was a heart attack also. It helps to realize that that is all it is.