How do doubts and panic attacks relate?
i really need help on this one. how do you control doubts or stop having doubts when you have panic attacks? please! i really need help on this one, for my best friend.
Doubts are just part of the ideas which surround panic attacks. It’s hard to say exactly what a panic attack is – the nerves just go nuts and fire like crazy. If you observe carefully you’ll notice that you don’t even necessarily have to be scared – the panic part is mostly a physical thing. The mind searches around quickly for a reason for all this – and finding no reason then it begins to make stuff up – perhaps these are the "doubts" you speak of.
It’s said that this anxiety/panic is telling you a story – perhaps something happened in your distant past – as a small child – which scared the crap out of you. It got repressed or "forgotten" – and then later in life it returns. But now all you get is the crazy fear-like stuff – you don’t know the reason this is happening.
So that’s what psychiatry is supposed to be all about – putting together what really happened in the past with how you feel now. And when this is done, that’s when the story is told and the panic attack doesn’t need to occur anymore.
Comment from Morpheus
Time December 6, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Doubts are just part of the ideas which surround panic attacks. It’s hard to say exactly what a panic attack is – the nerves just go nuts and fire like crazy. If you observe carefully you’ll notice that you don’t even necessarily have to be scared – the panic part is mostly a physical thing. The mind searches around quickly for a reason for all this – and finding no reason then it begins to make stuff up – perhaps these are the "doubts" you speak of.
It’s said that this anxiety/panic is telling you a story – perhaps something happened in your distant past – as a small child – which scared the crap out of you. It got repressed or "forgotten" – and then later in life it returns. But now all you get is the crazy fear-like stuff – you don’t know the reason this is happening.
So that’s what psychiatry is supposed to be all about – putting together what really happened in the past with how you feel now. And when this is done, that’s when the story is told and the panic attack doesn’t need to occur anymore.
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