What you Need to Know About Child Panic Attacks

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For both the child and the parents, a child panic attack can be both serious and frightening. Some of the facts around a Child panic attack will be outlined in this brief article along with a decipher to some of the clues that can help parents assist their child during this frightening and confusing time. Panic and anxiety along with other emotional levels are experienced very differently for children than adults, so when dealing with this situation nothing is as important as education.

As a result of experiencing panic attacks many children and teenagers will develop fears of going places. They are afraid that they will be embarrassed in they suffer a panic attack while engaging in an activity. Child panic disorders have many different types.

GAD – Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The patient who experiences excessive worry about a series of event is generally affected by an anxiety disorder known as GAD. The time has little to do with the amount of “logical worry” that is applied since the events can happen either in the past, present or future. Often past events, conversations, upcoming events, school, friends, family, functions or any other possibility are just some of the things children or teens may sometimes worry about. A child cannot control the amount of time spent worrying about such things if they experience GAD.

Relaxation techniques and therapy are the best known ways to treat GAD. A trained mental health physician is usually the best prepared to encounter such as disorder although generally children can be talked out of their worry and it can work wonders. Instead of discouraging words of worry children are taught to use positive self-talk and generate a dialogue with others to explore their feelings. A prescribed medication is generally not used for a child panic attack disorder.

Separation Anxiety Disorder

When children are separated from loved ones or comfortable situation that they are used to then they may experience panic. Typically this applies to the younger children who are separated from their parents. Anxiety can result from the threat of separation from a caregiver and occurs in many cases when children are left with a babysitter on a parents’ evening out on the town.

A child will avoid activities that cause a separation from the caregiver and when they are gone the child will worry excessively. Recognition of these emotions and a good dose of reality are the normal therapies involved. They should be made aware that nothing wrong happens, etc. Coping skills to deal with the separation, often through role playing, are also taught to the children.

Kevin Stith
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3 Comments on What you Need to Know About Child Panic Attacks

  1. nightmusic on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 11:47 pm

    2. With everything you’ve said, the only real question you have is whether you can cut your mother off. Considering she’s the one who abused you by allowing and so in a sense causing someone else to abuse you, you have no obligation to continue contact with her.

    That’s not a professional opinion. That’s my opinion. Many adult children who were abused do this.
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  2. Kayce on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 11:49 pm

    3. It does sound slightly sociopathic, to be honest. Regardless of your upbringing, you still presumably retain your own sense of self. Further, you seem to show no remorse now for what you did to the animals in Jamaica. You acknowledge that modern society would see that action as abnormal, but you don’t seem particularly bothered by it yourself, and still manage to criticize your grandparents for getting more cats that would be eaten by the dog. However, as is in the name, a sociopath is considered the product of their environment. Some people who are not shown love or kindness do not develop the traits. I think the root of your problem was your mother and your early caregiver. I’d be curious to see how your brother has fared, having come from the same situation.

    So, you’re probably having these problems because of treatment sustained at the instruction or hands of your mother. However, as an individual, you are still responsible for your actions and for your lack of remorse. You don’t need medicine. You need to cut off your mother. And if your mother is in ANY way a reflection of the rest of your family, you should probably cut them off, too. However, regardless, you need to see a shrink. You can tell them anything in confidence, and they will respect the fact that you’ve made an effort to self-diagnose yourself. They will be able to confirm or deny the diagnosis, and explain it to you straight up. They would also have better advice on how to handle the situation of your mother and family. I would suggest finding a shrink that is no-nonsense and won’t coddle you, but that will be straightforward and honest about your condition.

    Good luck. Try to refrain from hurting anyone else or yourself in the future. Please don’t hurt animals anymore either. Often, hurting pets harms their owners emotionally, and emotions can be very strong, physical things in people that are not like you. The effect of losing a pet can be similar to the panic attacks that you can recall having. Hopefully you wouldn’t cause that type of pain on purpose.
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  3. The Realist on Sat, 27th Feb 2010 7:45 am

    4. Sociopath with a dilemma? I dunno?
    For some time I’ve always figured myself different from other people – or I’m better than other people. I’m not sure what it is, because I’ve never actually thought about it too seriously, even as I type this and try to express what I’m trying to convey. I watch people, their actions and reactions seem redundant to me, yet I find myself having to follow these examples to get what I want – Why do people feel I always offend them? Why do they care that I’ve offended them? Why do people ask me to tell them about myself (I find this an extremely intrusive question), which people say I have difficulty answering and become evasive?

    I was physically and mentally abused as a young child by the person who was suppose to be looking after me, this was encouraged by my mother, who would say that this carer should beat and me and my brother in whatever way she chooses – I still have the physical scars to this day to which my mother has gracefully ignored through the time I grew up (And when I look at my brother, I know he will never have a normal life). I find it difficult to talk to my mother because – I used to have panic attacks when walking past people in the street or in crowded places when I was young. My heart use to RACE and I would be on the verge of bludgeoning them if they so much as asked me a question about directions or inquired about what a nice day it was – Girls used to come up and ask me out and want to know about me, and I use to violently attack them.

    I think this stopped when my mum sent me away to Jamaica – My grandma/Pa had a dog there I liked (it never asked questions and was always nice), my grandma and grandfather used to tie it to a tree because they had cats. I didn’t like this, so I took the cats, and pretty much fed them to the dog (It would shred apart any cat I fed it until it was dead), then I would tell my grandmother that the cats used to get too close to the dog, she had no idea what I was up to. I didn’t enjoy or dislike killing them I was indifferent, it was never part of the equation for me, I just wanted the dog set free so I could spend time with it – My grandparents finally got the point to not waste money on stupid animals that would get close to a larger predator, I would go deeper into the things I did but it’s not something I wish to discuss yet – What I’m trying to say is that’s when my life became simpler.

    But anyway, I’m 24 now, and I feel I have some control over my demons, I can walk the street, make conversation without feeling the need to attack anyone (As long as it’s not about me for some reason – and when it is it hasn’t gotten physical because I’m usually very brief) – Nobody knows about my past, I’m not even sure I remember all of it. My point is when I talk to her I feel I am regressing and falling back into bad habits, the only solution I have for this is to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger.

    I’d rather not have anything to do with her. I haven’t seen her in a long time – I’ve never sent Christmas or birthday cards or anything like that since I don’t even know how old she is (When I asked her when I was young she use to tell me to “Mind your own fucking business”), even if I did know I wouldn’t waste the money. I cannot tell her this because she’ll run to my other family members and they will denounce me as some ungrateful little brat that I supposedly am not that I actually care because I don’t even seem them either, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

    I checked out a few internet sources and from what I’ve gleaned I would say that I have sociopathic tendencies but I’m not sure since I’m no doctor, this cannot be remedied by medicine, so is cutting my mother off the wiser choice? Can someone give me expert opinion

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