Panic attack is a
mental illness associated with pathological levels of anxiety that is represented
by sudden onset of horror or fear of its reappearance in sufferer. The attacks
is characterized with symptoms like heartbeat, sweat, feeling chest tight,
tremble, feeling losing balance, or confusion, although they happen in a few
minutes. The sufferer, afraid of the emergence of a new attack, may get into
anticipatory anxiety and refusing to go to hideous places.
Panic disorder is often associated
with agoraphobia, and is fear of being alone in public places especially places
that are difficult to escape perceived by a panic attack on the person. Panic
attack can occur after injuring stress mental disorders, depression disorders
and medical illnesses such as drug discontinuation or its poisoning.
Neurofeedback targets the parts of
the brain at the cause of this reaction in an effort to retrain the brain to
function more efficiently so the “fight or flight” response is not triggered.
The brain learns how to cope with anxiety and fear appropriately during
neurofeedback sessions resulting in an overall decrease in anxiety, mood
improvement, and increase in daily function. In other words, neurofeedback can
help you calm the struggle so you can live with reduced emotional distress
caused by panic disorder.
In past research and review studies,
neurofeedback therapy is found to be helpful in regulating metabolic function
in brain. Through neurofeedback, panic attack sufferers learn how to strengthen
their brain metabolic. The findings reveal that neurofeedback remains its
consistency in improving panic disorder patients’ anxiety. This significance
suggests that neurofeedback is an effective complementary alternative therapy
for common unpleasant anxiety in panic attack sufferers.
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