Panic Attacks – Treatment – Yoga For Panic Attacks

Panic Attacks are episodes of extreme anxiety when when your brain
sends out stimulation to your sympathetic system without any apparent
cause. This causes the symptoms of racing heart, tightening of
chest,difficulty in breathing, sweating, extreme nervousness etc.

Since the all the physical symptoms are related to the stimulation of
your sympathetic system, it makes sense to try and inhibit this system
for the treatment of panic attacks. Also, during the phases between
the the attacks, the threshold of the sympathetic system is also
lowered (meaning that the bomb has a very small fuse – takes very
little stimulation to set it off). Thus by depressing the sympathetic
system, the threshold for the panic attacks also increases thus
preventing another potentia attack.

Now, for depressing the sympathetic system various drugs are available
in the market, such as propanolol, which lead to the prevention of
further panic attack. While these drugs do provide instant
gratification, these are only for symptomatic treatment – that is they
cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Also drugs have multiple
side effects and do not have any long term benefits.

This is where we start discussing the role of Yoga in panic attack
treatment. Yoga is basically a set of exercises which in some as yet
unknown way have purportedly led to the treatment of many diseases.
The Yoga for panic attacks has a simple and straightforward mechanism
- it depresses the sympathetic system by change in your body’s nervous
system firing rates and probably through hormonal changes as well.
Thus over the long term your sympathetic system slowly stabilizes.
Thus you have fewer number of panic attacks and the panic disorder
component also get cured as a secondary effect of lowered number of
panic attacks and increased self confidence.

If you are sick of drugs that you take for your panic attacks, and are
in search of alternative therapies you should try yoga.The only
problem is that having a personal instructor is pretty expensive. So
if you are short on resources, you should try out an e-course of yoga
at The International Yogalyam.

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Panic Attacks Treatment Aromatherapy For Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are times when your brain sends out the anxiety signals
to your sympathetic system without any apparent cause and you get the
sudden onset of symptoms like racing heart, choking, sweating etc. The
panic attack phenomenon is still, at best, little understood and the
treatment given is in the form of symptomatic treatment such as
anxiolytic medication like benzodiazepines and and in the form of
psychiatric counseling.

Since the pathophysiology of anxiety is little understood, there is a
firm role of trying out unconventional treatments for panic attacks,
as very often allopathic treatment (conventional doctors) is unable to
treat the root cause of panic attacks and only helps with the
symptomatic relief during the attack.

Thus the patient continues to have panic attacks and therefore goes on
towards unconventional therapies.

For now I shall just give you a list of some of the unconventional
therapies for anxiety and panic attacks and then go on to discuss
aromatherapy. These are:

1) Yoga and meditation

2) Hypnotherapy

3) Herbal therapy

4) Aromatherapy

5) One move technique – advocated by ‘panic away’

Aromatherapy is a the treatment or prevention of disease by use of
essential oils. Essential oils are aromatic extracts from plants which
are volatile in nature. Despite the name, aromatherapy also refers to
the use of these oils in the form of massages. Their mechanisms of
action like all other unconventional therapies is still unproven. It
is claimed by experts that they work by two mechanisms :

1) Their direct effect on the brain in the ‘limbic system’ and the
‘olfactory system’.

2) By the direct pharmacological actions of the oils (since they are
chemicals after all).

The three oils that I know about in usage, as the treatment of anxiety
and panic attacks are:

1) oils of lavender

2) oils of rose

3) oils of angelica

The efficacy of these as treatment of panic attacks and anxiety is
still a matter of opinion. And the opinion prevalent among most
medical professionals is that some aromas have demonstrated effects on
mood and relaxation and may have related benefits for patients who
have panic attacks.

Final word: While these treatments for panic attacks are considered
the last resort by many medical professionals, they should be given a
higher status based on their utility and popularity, which the
conventional therapies, despite vast usage in the treatment of panic
attacks, have failed to gather.

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therapies as treatment of panic attacks you should log on to
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causes, features, treatments of panic attacks and disorder.

Parting line- Always be positive and hope for the best.

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