Panic disorder with agoraphobia is starting to become a household name. However, despite of its growing numbers of “victims”, not so many people understand what it truly means. This article is meant to explain the disorder in the simplest of ways.

Do you know what a panic disorder is? This disorder is manifested by bouts of extreme and uncontrollable panic. Mainly acute or sudden in nature, it usually lasts for a couple of minutes. The peak or maximum impact of the attack is on the ninth or tenth minute, and from then on, the panic dies down.

Then again, agoraphobia is an irrational fear of being in public. Although it is tagged as an irrational fear, this fear is real and true to the person who feels it. An individual who has this disorder finds it difficult to leave the house or their comfort zones. Some people have the courage to do so, but they keep their public contact to a minimum.

Now, imagine those two disorders in one. Panic disorder with agoraphobia is a disorder wherein a person cannot leave the house because of societal fear, and in the event that this person do try to get out of the house, he or she gets a panic attack. In even worse cases, the thought of being in public alone triggers their panic attack.

The cause of this outrageous disorder still baffles many specialists. They have some theories about it, but none are really definite. One theory that holds a lot of bearing is trauma. That means that the patient may have had a traumatizing experience in public that is why they are afraid to go out.

The symptoms are all the same with a typical panic attack. Your chest will tighten and your heart beat will rise. Because of your very fast and uncontrollable heart beat, you will begin to grasp for air as your chest continue to tighten. Your breathing will then become fast and shallow.

Some other symptoms like excessive sweating, nausea, dizziness, among others, are also observed. In some cases, a person may faint. That commonly happens to people who hyperventilate because of the low oxygen levels in the brain.

Agoraphobia panic attacks can be easily treated by therapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy. I take it back; it is not going to be easy because it requires the patient’s full acceptance of his or her condition, and commitment to therapy. Even though the road to treatment is not an easy road, you will definitely get there if you couple it with patience.

I am certain that you do not want to get stuck in the house, chained by panic disorder with agoraphobia. Because his goal is to help everybody with a panic attack disorder, Jason Kluber will also help you get out of your house, one step at a time. Subscribe to his FREE mini course here http://www.panicattacksdisorder.org/

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