Nursing Care Plan for Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are superfluous body's normal response to fear. Adrenaline normally generated when needed actions such as, for example; run away from danger, fight or even angry, will be produced in excess and the result is the emergence of many unpleasant sensations and the level of fear that is excessive. All of these feelings, given the title "panic attack" word attack refers to a disease, which should be perceived as the sufferer can not avoid or control it. Softer term is increasing the intensity of adrenaline, which actually describe exactly what happened.

The cause of panic attacks can be said, among others:

• Emotional: frazzled nerves that cause anxiety and depression.
• Physical / Emotional: for example, frazzled nerves causing muscle spasms or wheezing.
• Physical: for example; diet, tight clothes, stooped posture
• Psycho: despair, do not look behind the painful reality, phobias, death.

Treatment ideally (though rare) is a form of anxiety treatment where it will receive full guidance and education about what is happening in the body, how to regulate breathing, advice on setting up food, how to cope with chronic muscle tension and so on. In addition, if symptoms are severe, may be offered the use of sedatives or antidepressants for the short term and under full control.

Psychological guidance alone is not enough to help. Patients need to be educated about what is done to the body. Approach '' counseling '' is the way that 'heavy' in dealing with the patient fears. Until all barriers and tensions omitted, facts about the real problems of patients can not be understood by the patient and therapist.

A study published in the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, describes how to deal with panic attacks.

1. Receive this attack
"Many people think of panic attacks will cease to direct the mind, but the reality is not," said Dave Carbonell, anxiety therapist from Chicago, USA. However, panic attacks often go away by itself.
We need to understand is to recognize the symptoms and take it. Do not deny but accept you have a panic attack.

2. Make a note
If you know often experience panic attacks, try to write in a note. Write down any symptoms and when these attacks appear. Make detailed notes will prevent us from imagining.

3. Inhale
Feel shortness of breath and short are the main symptoms of a panic attack. But these symptoms can get worse if we just take a short breath. Try to inhale stomach. When the attack came, take a deep breath, relax your shoulders and focus on the breath in and out through the stomach. Put your hand on your stomach to feel it.

4. Relax
It may seem easy to say relaxed, but when a panic attack comes a few parts of the body actually feels stiff. Inhale deeply and slowly, touching parts of the body that you know will immediately respond, for example shoulders.

5. Talk to yourself
If you allow yourself to experience these attacks, say. Remind yourself that a panic attack will end and will not make you faint. Understanding the physiology of fainting will help. Someone was going to faint when low blood pressure. When panic attacks, we may feel like fainting, but it really is not because we do not go down the blood pressure.

6. Present at this time
Try to be present at this time, instead of filling the mind with what will happen in the future or already passed. At first we may be difficult to completely present in the moment now, but doing the meditation exercise usually help.

7. Seek help
Panic attacks can make afraid because we thought it was a heart attack. But do not hesitate to consult if repeated panic attacks.