What’s the Difference Between Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks, and Panic Disorder? 1/3 Panic Attacks

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Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What’s the difference between an anxiety attack, a panic attack, and panic disorder? This is important because people sometimes use these terms interchangeably, they both have a lot of overlapping symptoms, but the treatment for each of them is different. So in this episode we’ll talk about the difference, in the next episode we’ll talk about good and bad advice for treating them, and in the third episode we’ll talk about how to stop panic attacks.

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0:26.5	through simple activities that you can do in just a few minutes a day. So if you'd like to learn more,
0:32.5	check out the link in the description and let's get back to the video. What's the difference
0:37.3	between a panic attack,
0:39.3	an anxiety attack, and panic disorder? This is important because people sometimes use these terms
0:44.9	interchangeably. They both have a lot of overlapping symptoms, but the treatment for each of them
0:50.2	is different. So in this video, we'll talk about the difference. In the next video, we'll talk
0:54.7	about the good and bad advice for treating them. And in the third video, we'll talk about how to
0:59.2	stop panic attacks from recurring. Both panic attacks and anxiety attacks include a sense of fear,
1:05.7	discomfort, and the fight-flight freeze response triggers physical symptoms like a fast heartbeat,
1:10.8	shortness of breath,
1:11.6	tightness of throat, dizziness, nausea, sweating, dry mouth, shaking, etc. Okay, so what's the difference?
1:18.0	First, definitions vary because the DSM-5, the diagnostic manual of mental health disorders,
1:24.0	doesn't define an anxiety attack. Anxiety is defined as a feeling of worry, physical
1:29.2	discomfort, and fear. Anxiety attacks usually come in anticipation of some event. You might have
1:35.5	work stress or a family event or financial trouble or all three, and the stress becomes
1:41.9	overwhelming. Anxiety builds over time until it reaches a breaking point.
1:47.0	And while anxiety may build over hours or days, anxiety attacks usually last less than 30 minutes.
1:54.0	Now panic attacks are defined in the DSM-5.
1:57.0	Around one and three people will have at least one panic attack in their lifetime.
2:01.4	And with panic attacks, a sense of overwhelming fear comes on suddenly.
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