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Panic attack symptoms can take on a variety of forms, but for people coping with this type of anxiety disorder, one symptom is almost universally experienced – fear.  The physical symptoms of a panic attack, ranging from pain and fatigue to hyperventilation, will differ from person to person, but the sudden and intense sensation of irrational fear is a symptom that is present in most, if not all cases.  This fear, unfortunately, is the single most difficult symptom to treat.

Panic Disorder:  The Fear of Fear

The very first panic attack a person experiences can be alarming and intimidating to say the least.  One minute everything is going fine, and then, without any warning, a powerful sense of unexplainable fear has taken them hostage.  Maybe the attack happened in the car while driving or while in the checkout line at the grocery store.  Regardless of where it happened, the complete suddenness of the attack is the most difficult factor to comprehend, often leaving the panic attack victim wondering if it could happen once without warning, couldn’t it happen again? Continue reading ‘Exposure Therapy: Taking The Fear Out Of Panic Attacks’ »

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Hans Eysenck, a Brit born in Germany in 1916, may not be one of the more widely known personality theorists; however, he was one of the finest. And his work is important to panic attack sufferers.

Eysenck believed temperament, a characteristic mode of emotional response, is the featured component of personality. And he believed it was up and running at birth. Now, that isn’t to say he didn’t believe in the influence of environment, it’s just that he reasoned nature, as opposed to nurture, merited top billing with regard to how we think, feel, and behave.

Now, in his PEN (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism) model, Eysenck submitted there are three dimensions of temperament; what he called “superfactors.” Within the context of panic, I’d like to limit our chat to neuroticism and extraversion.

Neuroticism
People that fall into this dimension are generally fairly calm to very nervous. According to Eysenck, these folks are prone to what he called “neurotic” problems, issues of a mental or emotional nature that result in stress. Interestingly enough, Uncle Hans focused upon the sympathetic nervous system. Well, panic sufferers know this system well, as under the direction of our fear and emotion circuitry, the sympathetic nervous system launches our physical fight/flight response. According to Eysenck, neuroticism involves, shall we say, a “hyperactive” sympathetic nervous system.

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