Palo Alto Health Sciences is starting a blog series about panic attacks, panic disorder, and panic-related conditions. Let’s begin by getting all of us on the same page by defining the panic attack. Panic attacks have three distinct characteristics: 1. An abrupt surge of fear that ordinarily will last for 10 to 30 minutes, 2. A variety of intense and unpleasant physical symptoms, and 3. Fearful psychological experiences related to the attack.
What is a panic attack?
Posted On June 11, 2019
Did you know there is a link between #PanicDisorder, #Anxiety, and #IBS?
Posted On June 10, 2019
Irritable bowel syndrome, or simply IBS, is a type of gastrointestinal condition that disrupts the colon and causes problems in the digestive system. IBS is estimated to affect close to 20% of US adults. The symptoms of IBS can vary for different people.
Nearly eight in 10 Americans admit they feel stress in their daily lives. Dr. Deepak Chopra, bestselling author and a world-renowned leader in alternative medicine, sits down with the TODAY team to share easy ways to combat your anxiety.
Posted On June 8, 2019
Nearly eight in 10 Americans say they feel stress in their daily lives. Dr. Deepak Chopra, bestselling author and a world-renowned leader in alternative medicine, sits down with the TODAY team to share easy ways to combat your anxiety.
“When I was going through my panic attacks, I didn’t even feel like I could share with anyone, So I’d suppress it, and the more I suppressed it, the bigger it became.”
Posted On June 8, 2019
In celebration of Porter magazine’s fifth anniversary, the publication welcomed Gisele Bündchen, its first-ever cover model and one of the world’s biggest supermodels, back to the front page.
“I was one of those people terrified I was having a heart attack when I woke up in the middle of the night feeling numbness in my fingers, with my heart racing.”
Posted On June 7, 2019
Heart palpitations. Dizziness. Nausea. Numbness. Trouble breathing. Chest pains. An all-encompassing feeling of dread.
Grounded by fear: Learn how one woman tackled the panic attacks that kept her from flying.
Posted On June 6, 2019
Last summer, my husband and I and our two teenage boys flew to Iceland, then England, and then home to Virginia. For me, this was not just a vacation; it was a personal triumph. It was the first time I had flown across the Atlantic in almost two decades.
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