2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Following the post-war generation of baby boomers, a wave of loners swept through Western civilization. Young professionals, divorced men and women, the elderly - all these people are united by the fact that today they prefer to live separately. Solo life is a new stage in the development of society.
Eric Kleinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University
The surrounding society and what we call the social context, any changes in it, contribute to the production of symptoms and diseases inherent in time. Today, our life context is characterized by fragmentation and interruption of communication with reliance on family, social belonging and values, the desire for autonomy and independence, at the same time - panic attacks are becoming a disease of the present time, disorientation and exacerbation of a sense of loneliness. Therapy helps to cope with the scourge, and over the past few years, the number of people who have sought help from specialists to cope with panic attacks has increased significantly.
What is a panic attack? This is when you are suddenly overwhelmed by a wave of fear and horror, a feeling of lack of air with cold or hot waves (sensations) that can cover different parts or the whole body with tremors, dizziness, a feeling of unsteadiness, frequent heartbeats, bouts of nausea and vomiting, strong tension or vice versa weakness, your legs give way … it seems that you are not yourself or that the world is not like that, as if you are going to die or go crazy at this very moment. Sensations alternate and can last from a few seconds and minutes to hours, occur once and repeat. And at this moment, a person ceases to trust his body and begins to be afraid of repetitions. After getting out of the attack, a plume of fear remains alive and well - suddenly that terrible state will repeat itself.
When the attack does not come for the first time, you understand that life is changing - it is difficult to be and live without the help and support of a neighbor, it is difficult to leave the house, to function independently. A person often becomes just a recluse of his own four walls, afraid to leave the house. This causes tension, the person feels not free, dependent. At the beginning, the attacks are unforeseen, but the more often they occur, the more subtly the person feels them, then when this is so, we are talking about the formation of panic disorder.
The problem is widely covered in scientific and professional literature. From the point of view of a biomedical and physiological approach, such states are explained by the "autostart" of an internal reaction aimed at the survival of a person as a biological creature, but the difference is that during panic attacks this reflex is triggered when, in reality, no visible danger around is observed. The most common question a person has is: "Why is this with me?" Is it forever and is it possible to get rid of it as soon as possible? "Is it really" from the head "? And the hardest thing is that a person answers to himself:" I don't know why this is with me!"
Most often, people come to me who have already passed a certain path in medical institutions. In most cases, doctors answered them “you are all right” and advised them to drink a sedative, sometimes they sent them to a psychotherapist. But in reality, not everything is in order, and sedatives cannot be saved during panic attacks. In the vast majority of cases, people come to take medications. Taking medication is justified in severe cases as support, but not sufficient, since the problem is much deeper.
The journey that a person has to make in order to get rid of panic attacks is the path from the incomprehensible to the understandable, suppressed and repressed from consciousness to the conscious, psychotherapeutic work helps in this. It can be difficult and unusual at the beginning, when a person is convinced that his life is in order, if not for panic attacks - "an attack that doctors cannot figure out", because of which they suspect of simulation, and it is difficult for loved ones to understand that it is not possible to "control yourself".
And coming to a psychotherapist in this regard is somewhat dumbfounded. The specialist asks questions about life, relationships, experiences, the relationship between questions and an uncontrollable, uncontrollable state is not always clear for the client. During this period, work with a specialist becomes an important support for the joint search for a way out of these states. Joint research often leads to specific relationships that have been and continue and the search for individual meanings in life for such things as attachment and autonomy, involvement and loneliness, confidence and powerlessness, the ability to rely on oneself, one's body is created and returned.
At the beginning of this path, it is useful to use an algorithm that consists of several simple points:
1. Awareness
2. Breathing
3. Grounding
About awareness
If you have lived through at least one panic attack, you already know a lot about this, the main thing is SHE
1. begins and ends;
2. not dangerous to life (in terms of the fact that you will not die from it and will not go crazy).
This fact can support once again, when a new wave of panic attack rolls over and passes.
About breathing
With a panic attack, breathing disorder is observed, the specificity of which is: inhalation and freezing with impaired exhalation and, accordingly, the start of frequent shallow breathing with insufficient exhalation. In this regard, a breathing exercise with an emphasis on exhalation will help: a regular inhalation after which a more elongated exhalation.
Grounding
In a state of panic attack, people often note that they do not feel their body, the focus of their attention on the legs, support on the ground, perhaps other parts of the body on which you are currently leaning, can help to "return" to it, feel your body and support a little stronger … At this very moment, you can somehow change the position of your body in order to strengthen the feeling of support.
These 3 points have supported many people
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