Panic disorder is a complicated emotional disorder that mimics diverse types of medical disorders and the alarming part is that it can completely copy other disorders that can lead to misdiagnosis. The result of the wrong diagnosis would also result to incorrect application of remedy and this is why most panic disorder patients often take years to cure.

Some of the medical conditions mimic by panic disorder are the following: complex partial seizures, hypoglycemia, heart arrhythmia and hyperventilation syndrome, drug effects, angina, asthma, irritable bowel, colitis, vertigo, mitral valve prolapse, post concussion syndrome, hypertension, postal hypotension and hiatal hernia.

Because of the similarity of the medical conditions mentioned to the symptoms of panic disorder, patients are made to believe that they are suffering from serious illness and usually would sick treatment from various doctors. It usually takes years before patients are correctly diagnosed of having a panic disorder and oftentimes only specialist on panic disorder can identify the real cause.

Just imagine the money and time wasted on purchasing medicines for incorrect diagnoses. Let us not forget that almost all medicines have effect on the body and usually the effect is not good. There are contraindications to various medicines that oftentimes destroy major body glands. And just think what these medicines can do for you in the amount of time you are taking them.

There are about 7.2% or 1 in every 15 adults that is suffering in panic disorder. This statistic is the result of the NIH research on panic disorder in the year 1993 and every year the said number is increasing. It can be therefore assumed that every year about 1/3 of the American adults have at least experience one panic attack and thankfully none of these adults ever had repeated panic attacks.

Panic disorder is actually one of the most common emotional disorders and in fact it is more common than alcohol abuse or depression. It is also one of the most neglected disorders as a proof only about 22% of the total panic disorder patients actually seek help and remedy for their illness.

Panic is a condition that is sometimes triggered by situations like threats or disaster and even abuse experienced from childhood. Worrying too much as well as too much depression also leads to the development of panic disorders. A typical condition of phobia is also developed as an outcome of the panic disorder. Phobia in most cases worsens panic disorder in fact 10% of the patients suffering from phobia ends up becoming housebound and develops a great fear of leaving their homes alone.


There are various consequences when a patient develops phobia and these are as follows:

1. Most patients with phobia become homebound and usually fears leaving their home alone.
2. As an outcome of their phobia most patients also loses their jobs.
3. They also become fearful of other people.
4. They also become extremely paranoid that they perceived everything around them as harmful to them.
5. Some even becomes delusional and tend to stray away from the real world.
6. The worst thing to happen is a patient completely becoming crazy.
7. There are also those that develop violent personalities.
8. Some patients also ends up abusing alcohol while others develop chronic depression since they feel that opportunities especially in terms of finding a job is taken completely away from them.

Lastly, panic disorder is not something to take for granted. It is a serious type of emotional disorder that once neglected can really ruin lives. There are treatments available for this type of disorder.

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