Almost every person at least once in his life has encountered a condition when his heartbeat quickens, his hands sweat, and his throat constricts with excitement or fear. But many are forced to deal with it frequently, which is defined as a disease. Doctors have been studying this phenomenon for a long time and call it a “panic attack.” This article will talk about how panic attacks are treated with folk remedies and at home.
Symptoms of the disease
Before you begin self-treatment of PA, you need to know exactly what signs can be used to diagnose the disease.
Frequent panic attacks are accompanied by some common symptoms:
- Physiological:
- increased sweating;
- dizziness;
- increased blood pressure;
- feeling of increasing heat;
- headache;
- blurred vision;
- trembling and numbness of the limbs;
- lack of air.
2. Emotional:
- feelings of fear and anxiety;
- anxiety and excitement;
- negative thoughts;
- feeling of unreality.
Treatment of psychosis
Psychosis is a distorted perception of the surrounding space. With this diagnosis, a person reacts inadequately to various life situations. Objectivity is lost, a feeling of constant fear for your life is created, as if there are some voices in your head that tell you what needs to be done. These internal changes provoke immoral behavior in the patient.
Both adults and children are susceptible to psychosis. Most often the disease occurs in women. Typically, the peak occurs during the postpartum period, menopause and menstruation. This is due to hormonal instability.
Symptoms of the disease:
- hallucinations. Usually there are sound ones, when a person is sure that he hears some voices;
- a crazy idea, that is, nonsense. In this state, it seems to a person that they are watching him and want to harm him;
- manic state (increased activity, good mood, high self-esteem);
- disturbance of motor activity, which can be presented as stupor, or, on the contrary, strong excitement.
The herb lemon balm will help get rid of the symptoms of psychosis. To prepare the leaves of the plant, steam them with boiling water and take them as tea several times a day. Melissa can be replaced with oregano, valerian or sage.
Treatment options
So, having dealt with the symptoms of panic attacks, you can begin treatment with folk remedies. There are many ways to deal with this unpleasant, and even instantaneous, condition, and here traditional medicine first of all comes to the rescue. Let's talk about how to treat neurosis and panic attacks at home.
But before turning to decoctions and infusions, it is worth trying several ways to get rid of panic attacks, which also do not require a trip to the doctor or special skills. To treat panic attacks at home, you can use one or more of the following methods.
Meditation
You should not be afraid of this action, since meditation does not necessarily imply adherence to a particular religion, but is one of the types of getting rid of negative thoughts and feelings. Meditation will not worsen the condition, it will help you relax and put your emotions in order. You just need to follow the established rules that help achieve the desired effect.
The main advantage of meditation is the gradually decreasing feeling of fear before the next attack. However, a stable psycho-emotional state can be maintained only through constant exercise, which should become a habit. Meditation will help you cope with growing fear, as well as understand yourself and develop a strong will.
Correct breathing
Breathing exercises will help you overcome anxiety and another panic attack. Scientists have confirmed that this method works directly, since one of the main symptoms of a seizure is rapid breathing, which directly affects its further development. Thanks to frequent training aimed at breathing, the necessary habit is acquired - during the next panic attack, the victim on a subconscious level breathes as taught by breathing exercises.
An effective option for dealing with an attack is to use a paper bag, which you need to apply to your mouth and breathe air from it. But this method is not suitable for everyone - some patients, on the contrary, feel that there is extremely little air, and this only further intensifies the panic attack.
Sport
Moderate physical activity not only tones all the muscles of the body and tidies up the figure, but also has a positive effect on overall health, including mental health. For those suffering from panic attacks, you need to remember the main rules: regular exercise and no overload.
Conversation with loved ones
Some patients see salvation in relatives and friends. That is why it is definitely worth sharing anxious experiences with them and talking about attacks, describing them in as much detail as possible, thereby releasing negative emotions.
Cold and hot shower
If a panic attack occurs at home or in a place where there is a bathroom, you should take a contrast shower as soon as possible. It is worth directing streams of water to all parts of the body in turn, while changing the temperature from cold to hot every 20 seconds.
Specialist help
Since the article talks about ways to treat panic attacks at home, turning to doctors is automatically discarded. But nowadays there are many different resources that help a person cope with emerging problems without leaving home. This includes videos on the topic of panic attacks. How to deal with them? How to overcome growing anxiety and fear? Answers to these and many other questions can be found on the YouTube channel of Nikita Baturin, a psychologist and specialist in working with fears, phobias, PA and other psychosomatic disorders.
Treatment of insomnia
Nowadays, people strive to improve their standard of living, so they work hard, acquiring a nervous breakdown, and as a result, loss of sleep. With regular sleep disturbance, the functioning of organ systems significantly deteriorates, metabolic processes in the body are disrupted, which contributes to excess weight gain. The amount of time for rest depends on the individual characteristics of the body. Some people need 8 hours of good sleep, some get by with 3-4 hours.
There are several options for dealing with insomnia. The first is to contact a specialist who, using research, will determine the cause and prescribe treatment that will restore normal functioning. The second is to resort to traditional medicine recipes.
Valerian tea
- Valerian roots and oregano are taken in a ratio of 1:2. The components are thoroughly mixed.
- To prepare the decoction, you need 10 g of the collection, which is steamed with boiling water (100 ml), place the container on moderate heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
- After removing the heat, the liquid must be left for another hour. The entire volume must be consumed some time before bedtime.
- The duration of treatment is 14 days.
How to treat panic attacks with folk remedies
In addition to the listed methods of self-control and exercises, it would be useful to start taking herbal infusions and decoctions. Here are the most popular traditional medicine recipes that will help you cope with uncontrollable fear, put your nervous system in order and feel better:
- Ingredients: lemon balm, St. John's wort, juniper, chamomile, valerian, hop cones, tea rose and mint. You will need 50 g of each component, 20 g of hop cones is enough. Pour boiling water over the ingredients and let cool to an acceptable temperature. Take warm twice a day for two weeks. A new drink is prepared for each dose - taking a heated drink is unacceptable, since precious vitamins are lost.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of peppermint into a liter of boiling water and cool. When taking the infusion at night, you can add a little milk for taste. This drink is taken if there is a premonition of an approaching attack, so it is prepared in advance. Although the product can be used not only to combat panic attacks, but also to get a boost of energy in the morning.
- Pour a glass of dill seeds and 2 pinches of crushed valerian root into a liter of boiling water, let it brew, and in the morning add 2 glasses of honey. This infusion is enough for a month and you need to take a tablespoon three times a day.
- Chop three tablespoons of straw and pour two cups of boiling water. Take the cooled infusion once a day for a week.
- For the last effective folk remedy for treating panic attacks and fears, you will need 80 ml of red beet juice and the same amount of honey. The mixture should be mixed and consumed 2-3 times during the day, half an hour before meals.
The above are the most proven folk remedies for combating panic attacks.
Although panic attacks do not pose a threat to a person’s life, they can still disrupt internal harmony and exhaust the patient’s nerves. It is quite possible to cope with attacks without the intervention of doctors or strong drugs. To do this, you should turn to such treatment methods as meditation, sports, help from Internet resources, as well as take medicinal infusions and decoctions that help cope with panic attacks at home.
Treatment of depression
Every person knows the state of depression. This problem should not be taken lightly. The consequences of this disease can be very serious. With depression, a person’s thinking slows down, there is a bad mood, sleep disturbance, and lack of appetite. The state of mental peace is depressed and depressed.
The causes of this disease are:
- change of living situation;
- severe emotional shock caused by the death of a loved one;
- problems with work or business, family conflicts.
Depression can be treated without the use of pharmaceutical drugs. A course of herbal medicine will not only improve your well-being, but also bring your emotional state back to normal, without any side effects.
To prepare you will need:
- immortelle herb – 100 g;
- birch buds – 100 g;
- St. John's wort and chamomile - 10 g each.
All ingredients must be crushed and mixed. Place the resulting collection in a glass container and close with a lid. Steam 1 tablespoon of herbs with boiling water (500 ml) and leave for 30 minutes. Before use, the decoction must be filtered. Take 200 ml at night with the addition of a teaspoon of honey.
Factors in the development of phobias
The causes of phobias are being studied in various fields of science, and at the moment there is no clear opinion. There are 4 common versions about the factors in the development of phobias.
Mental trauma
A significant amount of empirical data allows us to link the development of phobias with psychologically traumatic events. In this case, the object of the phobia can be directly associated with what happened (for example, fear of contact with men after rape by a man) or indirectly associated with trauma, for example, fear of leaving the house in the dark, fear of deserted places, and so on.
The appearance of such phobias for some time, in the process of experiencing the consequences of trauma, is a normal phenomenon, but if the phobia becomes persistent and haunts a person for years, this is a good reason to consult a doctor.
Attraction
The psychoanalytic concept describes the mechanism of development of phobias as a psychological defense against “forbidden” desires. This means, for example, that an unconscious desire to kill or injure another person (or oneself) can turn into an obsessive fear.
We are sometimes so afraid of our own anger and so afraid of being bad people that our own “evil” part ends up being projected outward and turns into threatening monsters around us.
Mental disorder
Some mental disorders are accompanied by increased anxiety, which can lead to the formation of phobias. Disorders most closely associated with this phenomenon are phobic and anxious personality disorders, psychotic depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Stress
In healthy people, the trigger for the occurrence of phobias can be an excessive level of emotional stress. When a person no longer copes effectively with stress, his anxiety may find expression in those fears that appeared in early childhood, but were usually controllable.
Acute stressful situations are characterized by an exacerbation of fears of darkness and heights, closed spaces, insects and other phobias.
Typically, the causes of phobias include a combination of several factors, one of which may dominate. Treatment of phobias may include working through the underlying cause or be limited to symptomatic therapy.
In some cases, the underlying causes of a phobia do not even need to be ascertained in order to reduce the intensity of the manifestations of fear or get rid of it. However, it is worth considering that in some cases one treated phobia is replaced by another, and this is an important sign that something has gone wrong on a deeper psychological level.
