Saturday, July 11, 2009

Depersonalization-Derealization and Panic Attacks

By Gordon Dalwood

Disorders dealing with anxiety often cause other things to happen including mental confusion. Panic attacks commonly happen because of this confusion and can be quite scary. Due to panic attacks having characteristics like those of heart or respiratory ailments, it is not surprising that people get scared and uncomfortable during them. But, some more serious symptoms can crop up when a person has severe anxiety. Depersonalization along with derealization can occur.

Depersonalization involves an out-of-body experience and is one kind of anxiety. This causes the person to have a sensation of not being connected to their own body physically. Instead of the person feeling that they are one in body and mind, they feel their mind is disconnected, and completely separate of their body. This can be a totally painful state mentally, that causes extreme confusion in the mind and extreme anxiety.

Derealization is somewhat alike depersonalization in that the person has the feeling of being disconnected. But, with this condition, an individual doesn't have the sense of being disconnected from their physical state of being. They happen to feel disconnected from their surroundings they are in. Many may think this is just a state of wonderment, but believe me it most definitely isn't. Instead, this is a state of disorientation and confusion. Most people, that sense that they are disconnected from their surroundings, will soon know that things aren't right and possibly panic because of this. This is what the person that has depersonalization issue may do too.

It is not totally correct to conclude the fact that panic attacks are just a response to fear for the above anxiety disorders. Fear is a definite part of the panic attacks coming on. And undoubtedly, a person having the derealization and depersonalization will indeed have a feeling of being afraid. But due to the person being totally unaware of their environment around them, the feeling of panic often escalates to a critical level. At this stage all of it becomes too much to handle.

On top of this, the panicky feeling is hard enough for someone planted solidly in reality. In depersonalization and derealization the individual does not have the benefit of understanding they are connected to reality. This is definitely a fright-filled situation.

Many people might be curious of the causes for this kind of disorienting situations. Various reasons have been found. Many have put the blame on events that were traumatic for these situations, but other people say that there can be an imbalance of chemicals in the person's brain causing these situations. It can also be possible that several factors could be at fault. No matter what brings on the issues, it is vital to do something to cure the problems.

Locating the reason that the anxiety is happening and eliminating it, will make the derealization, depersonalization, those panic attacks to go away. Because the anxiety is the base of all of these issues, eliminating it will most likely get rid of the other problems too. It does take therapy to make this happen.

You can find numerous types of treatment today. There are various drug therapies, psychotherapies, and alternative therapies out there today. It is important for a person suffering with these situations to find the therapy, that will work for them to alleviate their condition.

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