Anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorders with their severity can be debilitating for anyone. Panic attack is the most severe form, resembling having a heart attack or the feeling of dying. Physical manifestations are:

• palpitation

• pounding heart

• sweating

• shaking

• short of breath

• feeling of choking

• chest pain

• chills

• numbness

• fear of going crazy or loosing control

• fear of dying

Panic attack can occur at random, and it can happen multiple times a day.

Emergency Room (ER) visits become expensive, frequently due to the fear of dying from a heart attack. Most of the time the ER providers will send the patient back home with a referral for their primary care provider after receiving a short acting anti-anxiety medication without refills.

Anxieties can be incapacitating causing self-isolation, social and occupational disfunction with sometimes irreversible consequences.