3 Types of Panic Attack Treatment

Like I have said in many of my posts, this is not a blog written by a doctor. It’s written by someone who has dealt with panic and phobia since as early as the 3^rd grade and hadn’t found a real solution to the problem until recently. With my newly found sense of empowerment I decided to take on this project and reach out to others who are in need of help. The real problem with panic attacks and panic disorder is that the source is always different.  What we want as sufferers is panic disorder treatment, but in order to have the right treatment we need to find exactly what type of panic disorder we are suffering from.

I’m a big advocate for self-help in moderation. The term self-help as it is coined is actually an oxymoron. If you are broken then how can you help yourself? In the end you spend hours, days and years researching your own condition on all different websites like web md or anything and typically you will end up with nothing. That’s because you can’t help yourself, you just think you can. It’s the nature of your condition, the nature of your own perception of your condition. Though there are many panic disorder treatments they fall into 3 basic categories:

1. Informational – I categorize this type of help as eBooks you purchase on the Internet, self-help books you buy at Barnes & Noble and tapes or relaxation CDs you may have heard about. This type of help is totally based off of you helping yourself. I believe that this only helps people who have just initially started feeling symptoms of panic disorder and are seeking treatment.
2. Group – This can be in the form of online forums at the very start, support groups that are local online social networking and more. As a social phobic this type of therapy was the least appealing to me because it involved facing my biggest fears while I was too sick to try.
3. Professional – This is the type of help involving therapists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and other health professionals who are certified to give you the proper information in their field of expertise. They can also prescribe medication for people who are in need of quick relief and who had let themselves go for far too long without and panic disorder treatment.

In the end you are always going to want to start by researching your condition and see if panic disorder is generally what you feel you are suffering from. Free sites can give you any of this information. Once you know what is going on, then seek out a book by a self-help guru online or off that will give you the tools and a plan to help yourself. Try the plan for exactly 2 weeks and measure your progress. If you find that you have made little or no progress it may signify that you need to move your panic disorder treatment strategy up to a group or professional level.

Don’t get too bogged down in the information search phase, as hard as it sounds move on and get on with your life. Other people need you and you need you too!

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