Mental Health Series: Panic Disorders
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What is the difference between a panic attack and panic disorder? Can you have one without the other? In the United States, there is a prevalence of about 2.5% to 8% having a panic disorder.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal, as he discusses the 13 different symptoms that a person might have when suffering from a panic disorder. Then, you'll want to take a history and physical to find out about any alcohol or substance abuse and rule out any other mental health disorder. Finally, the different treatments like psychotherapy or a combination of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up one of my favorite memories was Sunday evenings after dinner at 8 o'clock on |
| 0:04.7 | HBO. There was a television show called The Sopranos. And at the time I enjoyed it because it was a family |
| 0:09.9 | tradition to watch the show and it was pretty cool, interesting, had to do with the mob, and a fun |
| 0:14.8 | TV show nonetheless. |
| 0:16.7 | The premise of the show, now looking back on it, has to do with mental illness and it was a major |
| 0:20.9 | source of tension throughout the show. |
| 0:23.0 | Throughout this HBO series, Tony, played by James Gandolfini, |
| 0:27.0 | May he rest in peace, undergoes treatment with Dr. Melfi, |
| 0:30.0 | played by Lorraine Braca, who is a huge star. |
| 0:32.0 | She's one of my favorite characters from The Goodfellas, |
| 0:35.0 | and the character of Tony's undergoing these treatments for recurrent panic attacks. |
| 0:39.0 | She helps them uncover an enormous amount of repressed anger, anxiety, and depression, which ends up as part of the show, a soprano family tradition, and ends up being the central point as to why Tony Soprano, the main star in the show, has panic attacks. |
| 0:54.1 | And this got me thinking about all of our viewers out there and listeners out there who are going |
| 0:58.2 | to be treating patients with panic attacks and even panic disorder. |
| 1:01.7 | And so why not take some inspiration from one of your favorite things and I decided let's do an entire series on various components of just anxiety. |
| 1:10.0 | Now anxiety has a huge part of the DSM-5 and so this week we're going to be focusing on panic attacks and panic disorders. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm Dr. Nakeets-Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and gastronterologist, |
| 1:20.0 | so stay tuned for that music because we're going to kick it off with mental health disorders known as panic attacks and panic disorders are going to be very common problems you're going to see in both primary care and even specialty |
| 1:43.7 | cares with psychiatry. |
| 1:44.7 | Now what are the difference? |
| 1:46.7 | A panic attack is a discreet episode of intense fear that begins abruptly and lasts for |
| 1:52.4 | several minutes to even an hour. |
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