Panic Disorders: Biomedical Therapy

In the past year, I have been having occurrences at night when I am falling asleep, and approaching the first stage of sleep, I begin to feel as if I am dying and I have a panic attack. This has been a result of my fear of death, especially with many people I know dying from accidents, disease, or age in the past few years. This sort of situation would be described as a form of Panic Disorder, since I have the common characteristics of feeling ill, beginning to get shaky, fast paced breathing, and overall uneasiness accompanied by fear. Panic disorder is when a person experiences sudden feelings of intense dread and they often live in fear of when the next attack might strike (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). Currently, I fear that it may happen …show more content…
This is when the brains chemistry is changed with drugs or the therapy affects the brain’s circuitry with electrical stimulation, magnetic impulses, or psychosurgery (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). For me, I would suggest a medication because I am not inhibited from performing normal activities throughout the day and at times I am able to calm myself down at least half of the time I begin to have a panic attack. Using a medication would be a way to explore if that form of help would be beneficial for me, or if there is an underlying cause that I had not discovered before. A form of Drug Therapy, which is using medication to control feelings, could be using an antianxiety such as Xanax or Ativan (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). Both of these drugs could help calm me down when I feel a panic or anxiety attack begin to happen, which could help me gain control of my feelings, but I would need to try one and possibly then the next one if the one used first is not effective. One problem with using a medication to fix these attacks, is that I could become too reliant on these pills, and not really fix the situation I am in. If this form of therapy did not work, I could always use a different form of therapy that is …show more content…
This is a diverse way of working with patients by making informed decisions based on research evidence, clinical expertise, and their knowledge of the patient to help the individual (Meyers & Dewall, 2014) This process is a way that the therapist can use all three of these methods to create the most beneficial form of treatment that can incorporate the personality, the evidence, and past experience. Using this method weeds out false therapies and keeps the public from down talking the method, and allows for a cohesive use of it, that can be more beneficial for the