Anxiety and Panic Disorders is Topic of Sacred Heart Seniors Seminar in Pensacola
Posted by admin on March 28th, 2008
“Sacred Heart Hospital’s SeniorSpirit! program presented a free seminar on anxiety and panic disorders on Monday, April 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Dudley Greenhut Auditorium on Sacred Heart’s main campus.
“According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental disorders, with some 40 million Americans affected by these debilitating illnesses each year.”
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Panic attacks are a common form of anxiety, and are distinguished by sudden short bouts of intense fear, apprehension or physical irritations. Generally, the duration of an attack will be about ten, or less, minutes and will strike for no apparent reason. People who have suffered from a panic attack, reported that the experience is the most frightening, disturbing and distressing feeling, ever imaginable. Approximately one in sixty of adult Americans suffer from panic attacks, and the condition also exists in all parts of the world.
When sufferers undergo a panic attack they experience physical symptoms that include, sweating, dizziness, nauseous, gagging, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, palpitations, sweating, chest pain, headache, giddiness, hot flushes, cold hands, trembling, or feelings of doom… Read Story Here
