Allopathic Treatment Panic and Anxiety attacks

Psychotherapy, medications or a combination of both are very effective in treating panic attacks and panic disorder. How long you’ll need treatment depends on the severity of the condition and how well you respond to treatment.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy (talk therapy) is a term for a variety of allopathic treatment techniques that aim to help a person identify and change unhealthy emotions, thoughts and behaviors.

Specific types of psychotherapy that can help with panic attacks and panic disorder include:

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): In this type of therapy, patient discuss his/her thoughts and emotions with a mental health professional, such as a licensed counselor or psychologist. This specialist helps identify panic attack triggers so patient can change his/her thinking, behaviors and reactions. As patient start to respond differently to triggers, the attacks may decrease and ultimately stop.
• Exposure therapy: This involves exposing patient gradually and repeatedly — in patient’s imagination and/or in reality — to whatever triggers a panic attack. Over time, patient learn to become comfortable with the situation instead of it causing anxiety and panic. He/she learns relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercises, to manage his/her anxiety throughout the process.

Allopathic Medications

Medications that can help treat panic attacks and panic disorder include:

• Antidepressants: Certain antidepressant medications can make panic attacks less frequent or less severe. Healthcare providers may prescribe serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). SSRIs include fluoxetine and paroxetine. SNRIs include duloxetine and venlafaxine.
• Anti-anxiety medications: Providers most commonly prescribe benzodiazepines to treat and prevent panic attacks. They help with anxiety but have addiction potential, so it’s important to take them with caution. These medications include alprazolam and lorazepam.

Homeopathic Treatment for Panic and Anxiety attacks

Homeopathy offers best, short and lifelong treatment. There are many medicines in Homeopathy for anxiety, stress, depression and tension for example:

Aconitum Napellus

A state of fear, panic and anxiety, emotional and physical mental tension; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever.

Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air; intense, sudden anxiety, panic, or fear. Panic could be connected to past trauma. Symptoms of this type of panic include dry skin, dry mouth, and tachycardia (fast heartbeat).

Argentum Nitricum

Patient thinks his/her understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions. Panic and Anxiety.

Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi cranial bones feel as if separated.

Anxiety that is due to uncertainty like claustrophobia, hypochondria, fear of heights, or fear of everyday things. Uncertainty-based anxiety could be accompanied with digestive disturbance, like diarrhea, and sweets cravings.

Arsenicum album

Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him/her from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased. Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

Headaches relives by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Panic and Anxiety. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

Borax

Great anxiety, especially when riding in transport, from descending a mountain. Dread of downward motion; child has anxious countenance when laid in cot or carried downstairs. Easily frightened and startled with least noise. Before stool irritable, cheerful and happy after.

Fear of being infected by some contagious disease. Strong tendency to be frightened. Irritability. Disposition to be angry, with ill humor and passion. Becomes vehement and swears. Does not wish to do anything. Dread of labor. Panic and Anxiety.

Fits of vertigo, with fainting, with fullness in the head, especially when going upstairs, or to any elevation whatever. Headache, with shootings in the ears. Headache (all over, with trembling of the body), with nausea and inclination to vomit, mostly in the morning.

Fullness in the head, and pressure above the eyes. Aching and drawing pains in the forehead, and as far as the root of the nose and the nape of the neck, increased by writing, by reading, and by stooping. Successive drawing pains in the forehead, with nausea, and acute drawing pains in the eyes.

Shootings in the head, especially above the eyes and the temples. Congestion in the head, especially in the occiput, with pulsating pains. Sensibility of the teguments of the head to cold and to bad weather. Hair entangled, as in plica polonica; is rough and frowsy, splits; sticks together.

Calcarea Carbonica

Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy: slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion. Panic and Anxiety.

Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from over lifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles: head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.

Anxiety worsens when plans are changed, and they show difficulty in “going with the flow.”

Gelsemium

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. “Discerning are lethargies.” Apathy regarding his/her illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear, etc, lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Stage fright. Child starts and grasps the nurse and screams as if afraid of falling.

Vertigo, heaviness of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high.

Panic and Anxiety. Patients with this type of anxiety are often timid and shaky. They may experience agoraphobia, avoid crowds or public speaking, and be vulnerable to fainting. They often also desire solitude and avoid insistent pressure from other people.

Ignatia

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Aftershocks, grief, disappointment.

Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward. Very sensitive and prone to mood swings, moving from laughter to tears.

Kali Arsenicosum

Scolding, morose, retired, quarrelsome, and discontented, jealous, indifferent to everything, scarcely answered questions addressed to her/him, or replied to them in a peevish tone; eyes had a fixed look, face looked frightened and anxious; feels better every third day. Nervous depression and great nervousness.

Thought her/his head felt larger, headache in left parietal bone, as if it was sore and pressed upon by a hand; behaves like a crazy person. Constricted feeling in head, as if there was a wound on parietal bone which was being scratched; the place feels hot. Panic and Anxiety.

Hypochondria, excessive grooming, and even fear of heart attacks. People with health-based anxiety may have racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping. They may also fear of death or dying; prone to feeling cold and vulnerable to panic attacks.

Kalium phosphoricum

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy, indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Panic and Anxiety.

Morose, irritable; tearful; averse to be talked to; everything is too much; depression. Lethargy. Cannot recall names or words; mind sluggish but will act if aroused. Extreme lassitude and depression; apprehensive. Exhaustion after moderate mental effort. Flies into a passion and can hardly articulate; tongue feels thick. Restless. Nervous; starting. Perverted affections; cruel to husband; to baby. Indifferent and captious.

Lycopodium Clavatum

Silent, melancholy, and peevish humor; despair of eternal salvation. Desponding, grieving mood. Sadness when hearing distant music. Anguish especially in epigastrium, with melancholy and disposition to weep especially after a fit of anger or on the approach/presence of another person(s). Sensitive disposition. Panic and Anxiety.

Dread of men; desires to be alone, or else aversion to solitude. Must laugh if anyone looks at her/him to say anything serious. Inclined to laugh and cry at same time. Irritability and susceptibility, with tears. Irascibility. Obstinacy. Estrangement and frenzy, which manifest themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbearing conduct. Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; does not understand anything one says to them; memory weak.

Avaricious. Character, mild and submissive. Complete indifference. Aversion to speaking. Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of devotion to mental labor. Giddiness. Inability to express oneself correctly, misapplication of words and syllables. Confused speech. Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on abstract subjects. Inability to remember what is read, stupefaction, dullness, fear speaking in public and have stage fright, they hide it well. They might cover it up with talking loudly or too frequently.

Phosphorus

Affections of the mind in general; amativeness; dizziness, nymphomania, melancholy and sadness, sometimes with violent weeping, or interrupted by fits of involuntary laughter. Laughs at serious things. Stupor, low, muttering delirium; loquacious. Thinks she/he is several pieces and cannot adjust the fragments. Stupor from which she/he could be aroused for a moment only to lapse back into a muttering lethargy, and forgetfulness. Panic and Anxiety.

Great apathy; very sluggish; dislike to talk; answers slowly or not at all. Anguish and uneasiness, especially when alone, in stormy weather, principally in evening, with timorousness and fright. Anguish respecting the future; or respecting the issue of the disease. Susceptibility to fright. Fear in evening, fear of darkness; of specters; of things creeping out of corners.

Hypochondriacal sadness. Disgust to life. Apathy alternating with angry words and acts. Becomes easily vexed and angry, which makes him exceedingly vehement, from which she/he suffers afterwards. Any lively impression = heat, as if dipped in hot water. Great irascibility, anger, passion, and violence. Involuntary and spasmodic weeping and laughter. Misanthropy. Repugnance to labor. Shamelessness, approaching insanity. Great indifference to everything, and even to patient’s own family. Great forgetfulness, especially in morning. Great flow of ill-assorted ideas.

Zoomantic condition; state of clairvoyance. Ecstasy. When anxious or vexed, their thoughts get scattered and they have a difficult time focusing or getting things done. Their anxiety may be tied to a need for approval in social circles or from romantic partners.

Pulsatilla

Affections of the mind in general; covetous; mistrustful; absent-minded; low-spirited. Melancholy with sadness, tears, great uneasiness respecting one’s affairs or about the health; fear of death (tremulous anguish, as if death were near), care and grief. Panic and Anxiety.

Involuntary laughter and weeping. Great anguish and inquietude, mostly in precordial region, sometimes with inclination to commit suicide, palpitation of heart, heat, and necessity to loosen the dress, trembling of hands, and inclination to vomit.

Fits of anxiety, with fear of death, or of an apoplectic attack, with buzzing in ears, shivering, and convulsive movements of fingers. Apprehension, anthropophobia, fear of ghosts at night or in evening, with an impulse to hide or to run away, mistrust and suspicion. Covetousness. Taciturn madness; with sullen, cold, and wandering air, sighs, often seated with the hands joined, but without uttering any complaint. Despair of eternal happiness, with continual praying. Discouragement, indecision, dread of occupation, and obstructed respiration. Disposition envious, discontented, and covetous, exhibiting itself in a wish to appropriate everything. Caprice, with desire at one time for one thing, at another time for something else, either being rejected as soon as obtained.

Hysterical laughter after meals. Hypochondriacal humor and moroseness, feels better to evening, often with repugnance to conversation, great sensitiveness, choleric disposition, cries, and weeping. Ill Humor, sometimes with a dread of labor, and disgust or contempt for everything. Inadvertence, precipitation, and absence of mind. Difficulty in expressing thoughts correctly when speaking, and tendency to omit letters when writing. Giddiness; patient neither knows where he is nor what he does. Great flow of very changeful ideas. Nocturnal raving; violent delirium and loss of consciousness. Frightful visions. Weakness of memory. Fixed ideas. Stupidity.

Silica

Despondency, melancholy, and disposition to weep. Nostalgia. Anxiety and agitation; yielding, anxious mood. Taciturnity; concentration in self. Inquietude and ill humor on the least provocation, arising from excessive nervous debility. Scruples of conscience (about trifles). Restless and fidgety; great liability to be frightened, especially by least noise.

Discouragement. Moroseness, ill humor, and despair, with intense weariness of life. Wishes to drown herself/himself. Disposition to fly into a rage, obstinacy, and great irritability. The child becomes obstinate and headstrong; cries when kindly spoken to. Excitement with easy orgasm of blood. Repugnance to labor. Apathy and indifference. Weakness of memory. Incapacity for reflection. Great distraction. Tendency to misapply words in speaking. Fixed ideas: the patient thinks only of pins, fears them, searches for them, and counts them carefully.

Patients who fear experiencing new things, talking in front of people, and getting a lot of attention. They tend to become workaholics to soothe their fears. Panic and Anxiety.

Stramonium

Young people who are sometimes hysterical, praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating. Paralysis of pharynx and esophagus. Contracting, tearing in throat; sensation as if a ball were lodged in throat. Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down movement as in swallowing. Spasm of esophagus. night terrors, nightmares, or dark thoughts while awake. People with this type of anxiety are often scared of the dark or being alone and are especially scared by thoughts of monsters or mysterious figures. Their imaginations tend to worsen their anxiety. Panic and Anxiety.

Lilium Tigrinum

Tormented about her/his salvation. Consolation aggravates. Profound depression of spirits. Constant inclination to weep. Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease. Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things. Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy. Panic and Anxiety. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in head.

Aurum Metalicum

Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Over Sensitiveness to noise, excitement, confusion. Panic and Anxiety.

Staphysagria

Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her/him. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things and refuses them when offered.

Panic and Anxiety. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind ears.

Oleander

Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation. Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Panic and Anxiety.

Coffea Cruda

Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish. Panic and Anxiety. Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.

Nux Vomica

Very irritable, sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault-finding.

Panic and Anxiety; brain feels turning in a circle. Over sensitiveness. Vertigo, with momentary loss of consciousness. Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air. Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in. Vertigo in morning and after dinner. Scalp sensitive. Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something. Congestive headache, associated with hemorrhoids. Headache in the sunshine. Feels distended and sore within, after a debauch.

Natrum Muriaticum

Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Tears with laughter.

Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. Anemic headache; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eye strain; menstrual. Panic and Anxiety.

Amra Gresia

Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.

Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Panic and Anxiety.

Natrum Carbonicum

Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music. Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

Panic and Anxiety. Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under light, Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Headaches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.

Sepia Officinalis

Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. Very sad. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening; indolent.

Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling rounds in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side.

Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Panic and Anxiety.

Glonoinum

Recent German proving of Glonoine: very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms, congestive headaches. Panic and Anxiety.

Cannabis Indica

Exaltation of spirit, with excessive loquacity. Full of fun and mischief and laughs immoderately. Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable. Anguish, accompanied by great oppression: worse in the open air. Constant fear of becoming insane. Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space; seconds seem ages, a few rods an immense distance. Panic and Anxiety.

Horror of darkness. Fear of approaching death. Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain. Sudden loss of speech; begins a sentence but cannot finish it. Stammering and stuttering. Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity. Very absent minded. Every few minutes he/she would lose him/herself, and then wake up, as it were, to those around him. Constantly theorizing. Clairvoyance. Delirium tremens; trembling; hallucinations; tendency to become furious; nausea; unquenchable thirst. Laughs at merest trifle. Sudden loss of memory.

Hepar sulphuris calcareum for panic depression and anxiety

Vertigo on moving the head, as well as from the motion of a carriage, or in the evening, with nausea. Sense of swashing in the head. Vertigo, with loss of intellectual power, and obscuration of sight. Headache in the morning, excited by the slightest shock (feels better from every contusion). Headache at night, on moving the eyes; the forehead seems about to be torn asunder.

Pressure in the head, semi-lateral, as from a plug or dull nail, at night and when waking in the morning; Pressure on the temples and on the vertex, with palpitation of the heart in the evening. Falling off of the hair, with very sore, painful pimples and large bald spots on the scalp; sensitiveness of the scalp to contact, with burning and itching in the morning after rising (after abuse of Mercury). Panic and Anxiety.

Cold sweat on the head. Cold, clammy perspiration, smelling sour, principally on the head and face, with aversion to be uncovered.

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