Panic Disorder: Symptoms, Prevalence, Treatment and Current Research

Panic disorder

Panic disorder
 Panic sickness is the anxiety issue in which the individual
constantly suffers from the attacks of fear or panic. Everybody
experience the panic and anxiety feeling at several times in his or
her life (Mayoclinic, 2018).
 The whole physical exam, blood tests should be done to identify
the thyroid and other tests can be used like ECG
(electrocardiogram) and psychological assessment like DSM 5
(Roy-Byrne, 2016).

Symptoms
 Palpitations or acing heartbeat
 Breathlessness
 Feeling like they are choking
 Dizziness
 Nausea
 Sweating or chills
 Trembling or shaking
 Changes in mental state, such as a feeling of derealisation or
depersonalization
 Tingling or numbness in patient’s hands or feet
 Tightness or chest pain
 fear that you might die (Mayoclinic, 2018).

Prevalence rates
 Nearly 2.7 % of U.S. young people had
panic disorder in 2017 and 4.7 % of
U.S. Adults experience this disorder
once in their life (Olaya, Moneta, Miret,
Ayuso-Mateos, & Haro, 2018). Females
are twice more likely to have this
issues. The Asian, African, and Latin
American nations have lesser
prevalence rates, ranging from 0.1 to
0.8 % (Roy-Byrne, 2016).