2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
There are a lot of clients with panic attacks these months. Men often come - and they are terribly ashamed, awful, because it turns out that macho not only cry, not only get sick, but also coward, because what is a panic attack if not the experience of wild, uncontrollable horror.
Here, of course, everything is lost, they are dying, and if they do not die, then they are "psychos" and "schizophrenics." And now their place is in a psychiatric hospital until the end of their days. Ahead, as they say, only joy awaited them.
Your coworker at the next table may be the person with panic attacks. Or your relative, or a customer. Or a girl you know from Facebook. Or you.
Panic attacks are such a new alcoholism. Previously, a person would have drunk quietly, peacefully, but now he is fit, effective, positive, and suddenly there is a panic attack.
And he's terribly scared.
At first, it never occurs to anyone that the psyche is causing the failure. It seems that the body is giving up. And the symptoms are all bodily - tremors, a wave of heat or acute cold, sudden dizziness, nausea or an upset bowel, or the feeling that you are suffocating and your heart is pounding like crazy and vata in your ears. Maybe all at once or in fancy combinations
The main thing is that this state collapses suddenly and develops with lightning speed.
And with him there is always horror and the feeling "oh, the shadow of the great Odin, here is death." Doctors very often mistake these conditions for a hypertensive crisis, because it really is similar. A person starts a race according to specialists, and then how lucky. Ideally, when there are several such "crises", the patient is sent to a neurologist, and then it is already a stone's throw to the correct diagnosis. But I know a glaring case when a person walked with a built-in heart rate regulator for several years.
Why does a panic attack happen? In the books, this is called "massive disruption of defenses." Each of us has a system of defenses - psychological scales that protect us from the harsh reality. Otherwise, how would we cope with the experience of being insignificant and helpless, and the world as suffocating and dangerous. With the meaninglessness of life and the inevitability of death. And a lot more. The pattern of "scales" is unique to everyone, like a fingerprint. Well, imagine a cedar cone. Some scales are neat and function perfectly, some are too hard and overgrown, and some have not grown at all - unsuccessfully, for example, the cone was pressed against the mother tree.
So, if over and over again the cedar cone of our psyche is checked for firmness in those places where there are no scales, the same "massive breakdown" can occur. When the psyche has nothing to react with, the body reacts (I am now deliberately oversimplifying. Very much. But otherwise I will go into the wild).
There are three things to keep in mind. Least. Firstly, each of us has a lot of these thin places. Secondly, subtle is not always a bad thing. There is a very sensitive skin there, but you probably remember situations where sensitive skin is an additional source of pleasure. And thirdly, the seemingly most innocent event can break where it is subtle. Especially when the body is in an aggressive environment.
And that's, in fact, what I was leading to.
We are all in a hostile environment now. This is also the winter we went through. A living organism is traditionally depleted by spring. And the crisis - it has already sunk in the first dull wave to the simplest, closest phenomena, such as the price of white cabbage and the dismissal of people from our inner circle. And paramilitary propaganda rhetoric through all official channels. And according to the unofficial, God forgive me, such outright hysteria that even the official ones seem not so scary. And the war, which is either being waged or not being waged, and the world isolation, which is either already or not yet - all this in our psyche decomposes to the simplest elements of "survive", "fight", "die", "kill ". Even if we try not to come into contact with society in any way, live in antiphase, communicate with nice people, read good books and throw away the TV - we still unconsciously react. It's like radiation - it's everywhere. This is a question for everyone - am I the one who needs to survive, or the one who will kill? Should I hide or attack? And if you attack, will they punish? Or is everything already possible?
The level of anxiety in society rises like a temperature. The level of aggression too. They are generally inseparable from each other. And from this temperature, in different ways, but each of us is in a fever. Because we all have a lot of traumatic experiences of grandmothers-great-grandmothers and great-great-greats. Everything related to wars, terror, dispossession of kulaks, hunger and terror. It would be feverish without it, but it often comes to life like this, through bodily reactions. In the form of panic attacks.
What to do?
Go to a neurologist, or a psychiatrist, or a psychotherapist. Go to someone, and there they will figure it out and redirect you to each other. Better on recommendation, because we still live in Russia. Don't wait for the panic attacks to clear up on their own because they won't. Do not say to yourself "pull yourself together, rag" - to spare yourself, finally. Remember that panic attacks are not a sentence or forever.
Like any crisis. Although, to tell the truth, this thought warms few people and rarely consoles anyone.
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