With members of my family that have suffered anxiety episodes and frankly happen to have been diagnosed with panic (also called anxiety) disorder, I can speak with a whole lot of practical knowledge about how to handle it in terms of managing the manifestations. Full blown panic disorders such as agoraphobia which is a fear and anxiety of public venues, or it is suspected that it may be a fear of panic in a public place present this condition clearly. It quite often results in the affected person living a reclusive existence. Some other panic disorders show up clearly and are easy to determine, even by lay men and women.

On the other hand, various panic or anxiety disorders do not show so obviously as this. A typical anxiety attack is widely mistaken for an asthma attack, when a person commences to have problems acquiring a good breath or exhaling. This typically displays whenever someone with panic disorder wakes up from a deep sleep not able to take in air properly. Often it just displays by tiredness after a sound sleep with the affected individual unaware that a problem has happened at some stage in their slumber.

This kind of anxiety disorder is the variation that also displays any time someone is under significant stress at work or in a family problem. They might have short-term or ongoing complications breathing that increases the episode already taking place. These kinds of attacks may well be foreseeable or may appear one time and not recur. Health professionals ordinarily diagnose individuals with this type of panic disorder once they have performed diagnostic examinations for additional physical causes and ruled them out.

Panic and anxiety conditions affect individuals who experience them to different levels with respect to their response to them. Numerous individuals take them in stride, use medication when needed and proceed with life almost ordinarily. Other people respond very significantly to them and this becomes part of the recurring issue with increasing and more serious attacks. Some people that are more reactive to these sort of panic attacks actually increase their intensity and their rate of recurrence. These are people who become very visibly affected by panic attacks and allow these attacks to become life changing.Regrettably, often panic disorder is diagnosed incorrectly and people end up going from one docor to another attempting to come across a solution. Sometimes victims of this condition use alcohol or inappropriate medicines to manage the sensations of anxiety and shortness of breath. This just compounds the ailment and can become quite unsafe. Due to the fact depression frequently accompanies panic disorder, it must be treated as a distinct issue and can compound the complexity in diagnosis.

The simple fact is that timely diagnosis and suitable treatment solution for panic disorder can avert a host of extra difficulties, provide effective medication to manage the episodes and can even result in the attacks halting completely. If you have encountered feelings of extraordinary anxiety under normal stress, or if you experience problems inhaling and exhaling at some stage in demandingconditions or upon waking up from a sound sleep, don't wait to go to the doctor. Getting diagnosed and treated early can keep additional related symptoms from developing and making more difficult the difficulty of having it competently diagnosed.