Symptom begets symptom
All life with VSD and neurosis is a continuous vicious circle.
Perpetual phobias and scary thoughts lead to panic attacks, but the attacks themselves often cause the development of new phobias. Especially if the person is extremely impressionable. During the release of adrenaline, consciousness is in an altered state, since the brain, under the influence of the fear hormone, functions in an “emergency” mode, forcing the body to produce certain reactions: tremors, tension in the gastrointestinal tract muscles, increased heart rate, panic attacks and the readiness to run headlong from danger. Such symptoms not only frighten and upset the patient, they force him to analyze his own health and draw terrible conclusions. The fantasy of a neurotic, well-read and sophisticated person exceeds all expectations. Often a person becomes overgrown with fears and listens to every new symptom. When a hypochondriac realizes that he can’t do anything about his panic attacks, there is a persistent fear of going crazy, becoming dangerous to himself and others, doing terrible things, or even accidentally committing suicide during the next such attack.
With severe neurosis, anxieties and fears roll down like a snowball, acquiring more and more new symptoms. At first, a person is only afraid of losing control over himself, but after a while this fear develops into a persistent phobia and becomes a trigger for new fears.
depression and fear of returning to work after a break
Psychologist, Treating panic
And then one day my husband got sick. He came down with a spinal hernia and I thought it was time to go to work. I got my diploma restored, went to study for 2 months. And then I went back to work at the same clinic, but for an appointment with a doctor. I really wanted to achieve something. I read a lot, asked a lot of doctors and everyone was happy with me, both patients and doctors. The only drawback was that I had two doctors and they were part-time doctors. One day on Friday I went out and worked without doctors. That’s how it went three years. My doctors changed. I had to constantly adapt. I began to get very tired. Small misunderstandings began. I began to get sick often. Either a cold, or cystitis, or something else. And then new management came and they hired me another third doctor and told me that I would work from call to call. I wrote a letter of resignation. Then I cried over the weekend and asked to go back. They took me back. But I started getting sick again. I think that from stress I began to collect all the infections. And after 2 months I quit completely. Depression hit me right away. I turned to a psychiatrist at my place of residence. I was prescribed antidepressants. I took them for 2 months and everything seemed to pass. During the summer I was on vacation and decided not to work. And in September I started looking for a job, but I realized that I couldn’t work. Everything came out at once: depression, panic attacks, fears. Now I’m taking medications again, of course it’s easier, but I don’t feel healthy. All the pleasures are gone, I’m living like a robot. I wish I could live until the evening and fall asleep sooner.
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What fuels the phobia of going crazy?
Of course, the fear of going crazy comes not only to those suffering from VSD, but also to “ordinary” people. However, some people tend to inflate this fear and submit to it, and some simply leave it at the door. Who does this phobia choose?
- Hypochondriacs - those who listen to every heartbeat and believe that every thought can theoretically come true (and therefore will definitely come true).
- People with panic attacks. As mentioned above, panic attacks greatly contribute to the emergence of this phobia.
- People under severe stress.
- People with OCD or GAD who cannot control their own thoughts and perform many meaningless actions under the magic of their neuroses. In this situation, fear of madness will be a secondary problem and will be eliminated with successful treatment of the underlying illness.
But can extreme stress or a panic attack really drive a person crazy?
:: Mental and psychological: what is the difference? Or about the fear of going crazy
Division into psychological
and
mental
, both normal and pathological, are historically understandable, but terminologically unjustified.
If they say that a person has mental problems, most often, in fact, they mean psychotic problems, which narrows the concept of the psyche to psychosis, an extreme form of mental disorders. And if they want to say that a person is experiencing universal human difficulties, then they talk about psychological problems, which, strictly speaking, is very strange, because psychological problems can only exist in the scientific sense (yes, the science of psychology
has many problems), but a person can have only mental problems. Talking about a person’s “psychological problems” is as semantically incorrect as talking about “medical problems” instead of “health problems.”
Nevertheless, not only in everyday life, but also in science, two concepts have taken root: “human psyche” and “human psychology”. Thus, the word “psychology” has become a defense against the recognition of the disturbing truth that every person is endowed with a psyche. It must be admitted that psychologists themselves greatly contributed to this, avoiding in every possible way the use of the word “psyche”. And the word “psychology” has become too tightly integrated into speech in its second, figurative meaning, that it is no longer possible to abandon this meaning of the word. For example, the phrase “psychological support” cannot be replaced with “mental support”. The word “mental,” however, has acquired a more negative character, and the phrase “mental support” is more likely to evoke associations with “mental treatment.”
By the way, the definition of psychology as the science of the soul is historically understandable, but not justified. The term “soul” (in Greek “psyche”) has an exclusively religious meaning and is not used today among scientific terms in psychology. The soul was “studied” by religious philosophers, and modern psychologists study the psyche, or rather, its manifestations.
However, if someone is frightened by the word “psyche” due to its association with “mental illness,” then he should also be frightened by the word “soul” due to its association with “mental illness.” However, I must admit, the word “mental” is more repulsive, and, obviously, the merit for this is, first of all, psychiatrists.
But if a person is “afraid” of everything related to the mental, there must be many reasons for this.
Of course, these difficulties and confusion in concepts are associated not only with the historical development of these two sciences of the human psyche, but also with the history of attitudes towards people with mental illness. It is unlikely that psychiatry and psychiatrists could earn trust when, just a few decades ago, such barbaric methods of “treatment” as electroconvulsive therapy and loboectomy were used (remember, for example, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”).
But it’s not even about the horrors of psychiatric clinics that we read about in books and saw in movies. The point is, first of all, in doctors, whose task is to treat, for which it is necessary to study the disease. And doctors who studied mental illness spoke about the psyche only in connection with illness. But worse than that, because... doctors treat patients; anyone who goes to see a doctor who treats mental illness turns out to be, as if right away, mentally ill.
And this is the main frightening meaning of the word “psyche”. And the point is not even that if a person turns to a psychiatrist, or even starts talking about problems with the psyche, those around him immediately classify him as a “crazy person”, so to speak, stick a label on him, although this is very important.
It's scary to think about the mental, because a mentally ill person can almost never notice his mental problems, and we all know about it. Of course, psychiatrists know about this, and we know about it too. And we are terrified by the very fact of a visit to a psychiatrist (and, at the same time, to a psychoneurologist, psychologist or psychoanalyst), because we are scared not only by the fact that we may be diagnosed with mental disorders, but to a greater extent by the fact that we won’t even know about it. won't try to tell the truth.
But some people pluck up courage and come to a psychologist, despite the fact that the name of his specialty contains the root “psycho”.
As a rule, people come to a psychologist for advice.
But who is a psychologist to give advice?
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As long as you understand this, you are healthy
A panic attack is a normal reaction of a person who has decided that he is in danger and urgently needs to run away.
All the symptoms that the body endures under the influence of the fear hormone are just a caring gesture from nature, wanting us to survive. That is, in this situation, all the body’s reactions are aimed at self-preservation, and there was no madness in Mother Nature’s plans from the beginning. For a person to go crazy, i.e. If you get schizophrenia, you need a genetic predisposition. And if you do not have schizophrenia in genetics, a panic attack is not capable of causing such profound changes in the psyche. Adrenaline does not change the structure of the brain, does not cause pathologies in it, so madness is excluded. While a neurotic is terribly afraid of his own insanity, he is not crazy. Only those who are not aware of the pathology or deny it in every possible way are truly insane.
The fear of going crazy with neurosis is actually illogical, and it also really spoils life. If you do nothing about the problem, it will become larger. It is necessary to contact an experienced psychologist and try to find out what is the source of this phobia. When the root cause is eliminated, the fear of madness will disappear. Sometimes just a few sessions of psychotherapy return a person to a normal, cheerful state, and in the future he remembers his groundless fears with a smile.
Diagnostics
Diagnosis of lissophobia is possible only when a person openly talks about his fear. Early detection of the disease will allow timely treatment to begin and free the patient from obsessions.
Stress is to blame for the occurrence of such diseases. To get rid of lissophobia, it is necessary to identify its primary sources, and this is easiest to do at an early stage of the development of fear. During the treatment process, a qualified doctor will help get rid of the causes of the disease, thereby eliminating the disorder forever.
Often, patients begin to feel that talking about a problem means admitting defeat to fear and losing control over themselves, which prevents them from visiting a doctor and aggravates the situation. It is necessary to get rid of such ideas immediately, because you can defeat a phobia only by realizing the full depth of the problem.
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Psychology of a panic attack
The next step on the path to “knowing your enemy by sight” will be to understand the “psychology” of a panic attack, the psychological reasons for which it arises. A panic attack is a kind of “parasite”. This statement should not be taken literally. PA is not a living organism, which is why the word “parasite” is in quotation marks. This is just a comparison to make it easier to understand. Like any parasite, a panic attack exists at the expense of your energy resources, emotions, fears and feeds on them. It's like a feedback system.
In short, these attacks are characterized not only by sudden panic for no apparent reason, but also by the fact that during these attacks other fears and anxieties flourish, which in the future only intensify the attack. For example, you begin to think that you will go crazy, lose control or die, you begin to spin this tangle of worries in your head, and new fears are born in it: you think that you have a serious illness, you will never be cured, this is happening to you will remain forever, etc. and so on. This makes you feel even worse, all the symptoms of a panic attack only become stronger. After everything has finally passed, you do not feel relief, but live in anxious anticipation of new attacks of PA. And the fear that the PA will happen again provokes new PAs!
You understand? It turns out that the PA mechanism itself in your body initiates only the initial impulse of the chain of physiological reactions of the body (the release of adrenaline, increased heart rate, etc.), and you do the rest of the “work” yourself! How? You begin to be afraid, you provoke the emergence of new fears, you stress yourself out, and you worry about your health. Thus, you create fertile ground for panic attacks to occur. They, like parasites, feed on your fears, without which they will either weaken and become much easier to bear or disappear altogether.
This is a key point in understanding the nature of panic attacks and getting rid of them! This understanding allowed me to get rid of them. And now I will look at different methods of combating PA and evaluate the effectiveness of each of them, both in a particular example and in general.
To begin with, I will talk about the treatment of panic attacks, how to get rid of this problem forever. And then I will move on to “operative” methods that will help quickly stop PA if it occurs.
