as post-traumatic stress disorder, which used to be called shell shock.
and veterans of war were stricken with this disorder now we have .
found out that woman who have been raped or anyone that has .
experienced something traumatic such as 9/11 can have a problem with .
this disorder. Like panic attacks anything can set off an attack like a .
loud noise. .
The experience of a panic attack is similar to the fear evoked when .
a person faces a life threating or dangerous situation in which personal .
security is jeopardized, except that there is no apparent external .
threat. Intense feelings arise during a panic attack, often along with the .
impulse to flee that characterizes the "fight or flight" response. There .
is no way of knowing for sure whether panic attacks and regular fear .
are connected but some evidence suggest that panic has unique features.
that distinguish it from ordinary fear, such as prominent respiratory .
symptoms, including sensations of smothering that are rarely .
experienced during fear in life- threating situations.
Many researchers agree that panic attacks are maintained by a "fear .
of fear" concept. One such researcher is Walter Menninger M.D. .
author of " Coping with Anxiety" in which he is of the opinion that the .
original or first panic attack a person has is so confusing and intense .
that the fear of having another one is indeed what causes the next. So on .
and so on until the victim is caught up in a vicious cycle. I can tell you .
from experience that the "fear of fear" concept is very real.
Over the years many famous people have commented on anxiety and .
opinions differ as to the benefits of anxiety and the drawbacks. .
Perception seems to play a major role in the forming of some of these .
opinions. Sigmund Freud had this to say about the problem of anxiety,.
"It's a nodal point, linking up all kinds of most important questions, a .
riddle, of which the solution must cast a flood of light upon our whole .