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The Therapy Cognitive Behavioral
What are the treatment techniques more usually used?
There are studies that show that the combination of the therapy cognitive behavioral along with certain psychotropic drugs, has effectiveness in approximately 80 or 90 percent of persons with panic disorders. It usually is often seen a significant improvement approximately 6 to 8 weeks after having started the treatment.
As the neurologist Marco Battaglia at the University of San Raffaela of Milan, “psychology and biology are closely linked”. Battaglia and his team have made public this month of February, the discovery that by blocking the acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter until now associated with degenerative diseases like Parkinson, could immunize temporarily to the patient of certain symptoms such as the choking sensation that always accompanies the panic attack. However, these drugs specifically, presented a series of harmful side effects, which discourage completely its use, at least until its effectiveness is greater than the side effects that are associated.
On the other hand, psychotropic drugs which are generally used in the treatment of anxiety disorders, but are not curative in any case, can be effective to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, which sometimes is essential and in this regard promote healing.
Within the behavioral techniques, one of the most used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, is training in diaphragmatic breathing. It is a type of breathing consisting of the realization of breaths slow deep, that mobilized over the abdomen, doing more work to the diaphragm, thus allowing greater oxygenation in the bottom of the lungs, but that on any lessens the excess of oxygen caused by the hyperventilation that people who suffer from anxiety often. When the crisis of anxiety, the agency is beginning to hyperventilate, i.e. to carry out a series of rapid breaths and superficial, allowing the entry of small amounts of air, while large amounts of oxygen can cause tachycardia, dizziness and other symptoms, such as tingling in the members peripherals, hands or feet, etc.
On the other hand, the cognitive therapy, behavioral aims to teach patients to interpret the stimuli differently, i.e. to react differently in the situations and before the bodily sensations unleashed panic attacks and other symptoms of anxiety. One of the main objectives of the therapy cognitive behavioral, is to teach the patient to see the panic of differently, as well as teach different means to reduce symptoms of anxiety. Patients learn to understand the manner in which his thinking contributes to their symptoms and how to change their thoughts to reduce the possibility that these symptoms occur. For example, someone who during the panic attack expresses have great dizziness and fears or has the feeling that you will die, you can receive help with the next technique: he calls the patient to give laps at the same place until it is maree. This will become familiar with the symptom of dizziness, not associated with the panic attack. When however, the patient is before a crisis begin to think: “I am going to die”, however, have learned to replace that thought wrong, by a more appropriate as “is not more than a small dizziness and I can control”.
Another technique that is used in the therapy cognitive behavioral, known as systematic desensitization, consists of exposing little by little people to the situation feared as a result of panic disorder, until they come to be insensitive to it. When the crisis in panic triggered more than once in the same place (for example, in a large store), sometimes happens that this subject develops in addition, a phobia specific to that place, that is, is unable to enter any great store. In these cases tends to be effective this technique, which basically consists of the gradual exposure of the patient to the situation. This technique must be guided and directed by a specialist (psychologist generally), you know exactly how, in what time and to what extent that expose the subject to the situation.
Undoubtedly, the worst thing you can do is try to prevent these situations in which one believes that could happen the crisis. The conduct could get to produce what is called agoraphobia, that we could define as the fear that you have to suffer a crisis of anxiety or panic attack in situations of helplessness, that is, in those situations in which the subject you feel unprotected in full. This, not only does not solve the problem, but on the contrary what boost.
There are studies that show that the combination of the therapy cognitive behavioral along with certain psychotropic drugs, has effectiveness in approximately 80 or 90 percent of persons with panic disorders. It usually is often seen a significant improvement approximately 6 to 8 weeks after having started the treatment. As the neurologist Marco Battaglia at the University of San Raffaela of Milan, “psychology and biology are closely linked”. Battaglia and his team have made public this month of February, the discovery that by blocking the acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter until now associated with degenerative diseases like Parkinson, could immunize temporarily to the patient of certain symptoms such as the choking sensation that always accompanies the panic attack. However, these drugs specifically, presented a series of harmful side effects, which discourage completely its use, at least until its effectiveness is greater than the side effects that are associated. On the other hand, psychotropic drugs which are generally used in the treatment of anxiety disorders, but are not curative in any case, can be effective to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, which sometimes is essential and in this regard promote healing. Within the behavioral techniques, one of the most used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, is training in diaphragmatic breathing. It is a type of breathing consisting of the realization of breaths slow deep, that mobilized over the abdomen, doing more work to the diaphragm, thus allowing greater oxygenation in the bottom of the lungs, but that on any lessens the excess of oxygen caused by the hyperventilation that people who suffer from anxiety often. When the crisis of anxiety, the agency is beginning to hyperventilate, i.e. to carry out a series of rapid breaths and superficial, allowing the entry of small amounts of air, while large amounts of oxygen can cause tachycardia, dizziness and other symptoms, such as tingling in the members peripherals, hands or feet, etc. On the other hand, the cognitive therapy, behavioral aims to teach patients to interpret the stimuli differently, i.e. to react differently in the situations and before the bodily sensations unleashed panic attacks and other symptoms of anxiety. One of the main objectives of the therapy cognitive behavioral, is to teach the patient to see the panic of differently, as well as teach different means to reduce symptoms of anxiety. Patients learn to understand the manner in which his thinking contributes to their symptoms and how to change their thoughts to reduce the possibility that these symptoms occur. For example, someone who during the panic attack expresses have great dizziness and fears or has the feeling that you will die, you can receive help with the next technique: he calls the patient to give laps at the same place until it is maree. This will become familiar with the symptom of dizziness, not associated with the panic attack. When however, the patient is before a crisis begin to think: “I am going to die”, however, have learned to replace that thought wrong, by a more appropriate as “is not more than a small dizziness and I can control”. Another technique that is used in the therapy cognitive behavioral, known as systematic desensitization, consists of exposing little by little people to the situation feared as a result of panic disorder, until they come to be insensitive to it. When the crisis in panic triggered more than once in the same place (for example, in a large store), sometimes happens that this subject develops in addition, a phobia specific to that place, that is, is unable to enter any great store. In these cases tends to be effective this technique, which basically consists of the gradual exposure of the patient to the situation. This technique must be guided and directed by a specialist (psychologist generally), you know exactly how, in what time and to what extent that expose the subject to the situation. Undoubtedly, the worst thing you can do is try to prevent these situations in which one believes that could happen the crisis. The conduct could get to produce what is called agoraphobia, that we could define as the fear that you have to suffer a crisis of anxiety or panic attack in situations of helplessness, that is, in those situations in which the subject you feel unprotected in full. This, not only does not solve the problem, but on the contrary what boost.